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The continuously increasing trend of internet of things, ubiquitous computing and communication is redefining our everyday experiences: objects like smartphones and smart devices create an aaa pervasive interaction between human, physical and computational elements. This interaction is particularly relevant in the smart energy sector, where not only single buildings can be equipped with smart appliances, but these smart appliances (including energy generation, conversion and storage devices) can communicate and interact with each other at the level of blocks of buildings or eventually districts. This ecosystem of smart buildings would finally interact with the power grid, envisioning the so-called smart grid framework.
It is well known that the building sector in EU accounts for around 40% of the total energy consumption and 40% of emissions. The current setting is far from being smart: buildings and users act as passive consumers, absorbing energy from the grid on a disconnected and disorganized basis. As a consequence, all the physical energy (thermal and electric) processes that are necessary to sustain the building operational structure, including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, charge of plugin electric vehicles, local energy generation and energy storage, operate at far from optimal regimes.