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    Escola Politécnica - Universidade de São Paulo

A Model-Based and Goal-Oriented Approach for the Conceptual Design of Smart Grid Services

Miguel Angel Orellana Postigo, Eduardo L. Pellini, Jose Reinaldo Silva

Journal 
 
Autor 
Miguel Angel Orellana Postigo, Eduardo L. Pellini, Jose Reinaldo Silva 
Book Title 
Industrial Applications: New Solutions for the New Era 
Volume 
 
Página(s) 
117-142 
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3390/machines9120370 
Published 
2022 
Month 
 
Tipo de Documento 
Seção de Livro 
Abstract 
A solid demand to integrate energy consumption and co-generation emerged worldwide, motivated, on one hand, by the need to diversify and enhance energy supply, and, one the other hand, by the pressure to attend to the requirements of a heterogeneous class of users. The coupling between energy service provision and final users also includes balancing user needs, eliminating excesses, and optimizing energy supply while avoiding blackouts. Another motivation is the challenge of having sustainable sources and many adapted to the user ecosystem. Altogether, these motivations lead to more abstract design approaches to co-generation-distributed systems, such as those based on goal-oriented requirements used to model smart grids. This work considers the available design practices and its difficulties in proposing a new method capable of producing a flexible requirement model that could serve for design and maintenance purposes. We suggest coupling the approach based on goal-oriented requirements with model-based engineering to support such a model. The expected result is a sound and flexible requirements model, including a model for the interaction with the final user (now being considered a producer and consumer simultaneously). A case study is presented, wherein a small energy service system in an isolated community in the Amazon rain forest was designed. 
Keywords 
microgrids, model-based systems architecture, requirements engineering, goal-oriented requirements 
Publisher 
MDPI 
URL 
https://www.mdpi.com/books/book/5119