# Micro-accounting for optimizing and saving energy in smart buildings

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a micro-accounting platform for detailed energy consumption analysis in smart buildings, enabling energy savings and optimized source switching through case studies in offices.

## Contribution

It presents a novel platform for micro-level energy monitoring and demonstrates its effectiveness via practical case studies in energy saving and source optimization.

## Key findings

- Significant energy savings achieved in office environments
- Effective smart switching among energy sources demonstrated
- Platform provides detailed insights into device-level energy consumption

## Abstract

Energy management, and in particular its optimization, is one of the hot trends in the current days, both at the enterprise level (optimization of whole corporate/government buildings) and single citizens' homes. The current trend is to provide knowledge about the micro(scopic) energy consumption. This allows to save energy, but also to optimize the dfferent energy sources (e.g., solar vs. traditional one) in case of a mixed architecture. In this work, after briefly introducing our specific platform for smart environments able to micro-account energy consumption of devices, we present two case studies of its utilization: energy saving in offices and smart switching among dfferent energy sources.