[Include a detailed description of this Working Group’s Scope. This Scope is important is it establishes the bounds of each contributor's and licensee's patent commitment. For guidance on drafting an appropriate Scope, you may find ISO's guidance (see page 5) helpful.]
The WG Use-Cases aims to describe the usage for each energy (market) role. The initial draft of use-cases per role will be provided by respective companies. Some use-cases will be redundant when described by the variuos roles from their respective perspective. Thereby, it is necessary that after concluding use-case descriptions from different roles to mutually approve a consolidated description.
- TSO
- DSO
- Admin, responsible for maintaining data gateway and keeping it operational.
- Customers of all types (residential, industrial, commercial, governmental), the one whose energy is measured. He/She/It is enabled to manage his/ her/ its data permissions and device permissions. I.e. setting which other party is allowed to receive his/ her/ its measurements and from which device that is measured through the meter. Furthermore, can the gateway store received information on energy reporting, energy saving measures or ecological benefits.
- SW Third Parties, these can be Energy Service Companies, Energy Management Companies, Retailers/ Suppliers, Aggregators, DIY End-customers, Non-government organizations and academia, who want to deploy software onto the gateway.
- HW Third parties, which produce additional equipment that connects with the data gateway to provide further benefits, e.g. a home display or control relais/ device. A use-case description consists of the participating market roles, a process and the necessary artefacts.