Efficient Energy Management Using Fog Computing

Smart Grid (SG) is a modern electricity network that promotes reliability, efficiency, sustainability and economic aspects of electricity services. Moreover, it plays an essential role in modern energy infrastructure. The main challenges for SG are, how can different types of front end smart devices, such as smart meters and power sources, be used efficiently and how a huge amount of data is processed from these devices. Furthermore, cloud and fog computing technology is a technology that provides computational resources on request. It is a good solution to overcome these obstacles, and it has many good features, such as cost savings, energy savings, scalability, flexibility and agility. In this paper, a cloud and fog based energy management system is proposed for the efficient energy management. This frame work provides the idea of cloud and fog computing with the SG to manage the consumers requests and energy in efficient manner. To balance load on fog and cloud a selection Base Scheduling Algorithm is used. Which assigns the tasks to VMs in efficient way.