Internet of Things

Over the last centuries we have seen a lot of new developments on the internet technologies transforming the energy area through the Information and Communication technologies (ICT), especially via the usage of networked embedded devices. The Internet of Energy can be described on its several kind of uses and impacts, explained here through the examples on the Smart Grid, Smart houses, Cooperation Objects and others implementations achievable with the development of new technologies concerning energy use, generation, distribution and transmission optimization. 1 Internet of Energy overview The coupling of the physical and virtual world through the several interconnected devices we have nowadays create a new kind of interaction permitted by the sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects that communicate through wired and wireless networks. They become tools for understanding complexity and responding to it swiftly, even without human intervention. With that we could also generate fundamentally new insights for new activities and new forms of social relations. There are some important applications of these developments in waste management, urban planning, sustainable urban environment, continuous care, emergency response, intelligent shopping, smart product management, smart meters, home automation and day by day new opportunities of applications are being developed. All of these appliances mainly that ones concerning the energy area should also be made carefully since we live in a world’s economic regions dependent on each other and it is really necessary to ensure energy security and stable economic conditions. The main focus of the researches on energy nowadays are on spreading the intelligence of the internet distribution and controlling systems through many peripheral nodes, enabling more precise control and adaptation as well as more accurate monitoring of energy losses. Together with this challenges we expect to create a totally new infrastructure based on service oriented innovative applications that will have a lot of impacts on our everyday environment. With these advances, highly distributed business processes will be create to help the deregulated energy market dealing with these new changes. Since there will be a growing number of providers and consumers interaction, the traditional static customer process with limited interventions will increasingly be superseded by a very dynamic, decentralized and market-oriented process. We also need to get reliable IT applications that are widely supported and comprehensive. We should design the architecture of such distributed system landscapes and create some standards that will provide us the correct infrastructure to be closer to the era of the "Internet of things". With this real-time two-way flow of information we could get many useful tools such as the so called cooperation objects to manage simple measurements from a large group of consumers in order to get most of the suppliers’ efficiency. Another challenge is on how to apply all of these communications capabilities into others house’s difficulties such as gas consumption since we could get an optimized fuel use. Applying that on the Smart Grid as we imagine, it must support the large amounts of data that would be used and also be scalable and interoperable. Today internet deal with plenty of different ICT technologies (i.e., transceivers, protocols, services), and the expected result is to have only one common via with standard languages. In the future we expect improvements on the energy efficiency by increasing the amount of renewable energy sources, originated by decentralized providers diversifying and stimulating a more competitive and free market for energy production and distribution. The Internet of Energy era and its several consequences is getting more powerful as the new technologies implementations are being made on important areas such as the power grids or our daily life pleasures. Advances in Media Technology