a b s t r a c t
Nowadays the concept of intelligent homes and smart technologies are spreading out and becoming a
vital
 
strategy
 
to
 optimize
 
the
 energy performance. Specially that the internet is available to all our life
aspects
 including educational system, health care, banking, commercial, industries, mobile applications,
etc.
 
The
 
energy
 sector
 
is
 one of the important domains to use the internet in the supply and demand sides.
As
 the buildings consume two third of electricity globally, the real-time monitoring, by using the internet,
is
 
one
 of
 
the
 key factors to manage the energy consumption and to optimize the buildings’ performance.
Accordingly,
 the buildings’ systems have utilized the information technology’s revolution in the last
decade
 in
 
several
 manners.
 
One
 of the very interesting synergies is that developing relationship between
the
 energy monitoring and the Internet of Things (IoT) for most of buildings’ sensors, energy meters and
building
 automation
 
systems.
 
These
 new technologies interact effectively with the Smart Home Energy
Management
 System. It increases its value and ensures securing tangible benefits. As shown through the
findings
 
of
 this study, the level of buildings intelligence will significantly contribute the improvement
of
 energy performance. Not only, the energy demand and the use of energy will be smartly efficient.
As
 a
 
result,
 the renewable energy systems in such smart homes will be a cost-effective option and the
probability
 to build a net zero energy home becomes materialized and affordable economically.
This
 
paper
 reviews the latest technologies and telecommunication techniques that used in the homes
to
 monitor energy performance. It also discusses a case study in Riyadh – Saudi Arabia about smart
home’s
 technologies,
 
and
 the impact of using the renewable energy to improve the energy performance
compared
 to the energy benchmark. The main focus will be on the smart technologies; interface and
integration
 of
 
the
 meters, sensors and monitoring systems with the home energy management system
(HEMS).
 The findings of this paper outline that the smart home in practice provides the ability to the
house
 
to
 
be
 net zero energy building. Especially that it reduces the power demand and improve the
energy
 performance by 37% better than ASHRAE standards for family villas sector.

Title

Energy and Buildings

Publisher

Elsevier

Publisher Country

Eswatini

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

None

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

153

Year

2017

Pages

262-274