Supporting Demand-Response strategies with the DELTA ontology
Alba Fernández-Izquierdo, Andrea Cimmino, Raúl García‐Castro · 2021
The increasing interest of demand response (DR) strategies has fostered the funding of new research projects in Europe. The development of DR in these projects requires a bi-directional data exchange, which revolves around diverse overlapping topics, between infrastructures and providers. As a result, ontologies are required to enable a transparent exchange and consumption of data, ensuring its semantic correctness. Nevertheless, currently, there is no ontology that can be used for such data exchange covering all these topics. In the context of the EU project DELTA, which focuses on DR, an ontology has been developed with the goal of filling the aforementioned lack. This paper describes the approach followed to develop this ontology, specifies its requirements, and also includes a practical example of how to use it.