Towards Big Data and Internet of Things as Key Aspects of Energy Efficiency

In the energy industry, smart metering and sensor technology provides access to unprecedented amount of information, thus rapidly expanding a dissimilar and compound big set of data which is handled by the Energy Management Systems. This manuscript per the authors presents a generic architecture of Energy Management System suited to handle structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, coming from various sources in a heterogeneous workload. The paper focuses on the main operational subsystems and the database management challenge in the Internet of Things.