Evaluating benefits of collaborative intelligent batteries in SmartGrid

The paper prototypes one enabler of the Internet of Energy that is autonomous collaborative energy storage devices. The case study investigates an intelligent parking lot of electric vehicles, using them as home energy storages. The vehicles implement decentralized battery coordination, where batteries exchange their State of Charge data along with getting online information on price and electricity demand. The study proposes a decentralised cooperation mechanism for the electric vehicles, which assumes mutual access to the energy stored in every battery in order to reduce the costs for everyone. The effect of such cooperation is evaluated under assumption of random presence of vehicles at the parking lot. The results demonstrated feasible costs reduction under different parking lot occupancy scenarios for every member of such a proposed collaborative society.