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title: Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 4 - Smart Home to Smart Grid
description: Explore how Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML integrate Smart Homes with Smart Grids to optimize energy consumption and cost savings.
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# [Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 4 - Smart Home to Smart Grid](https://intercax.com/blog/2016/03/03/smart-home-iot-4)

 Written by [Dirk Zwemer](https://intercax.com/blog/author/dirk) | Mar 03, 2016

This is the fourth in a series of technical notes describing the application of Model-Based Systems Engineering ([MBSE](https://intercax.com/mbse/)) to the specification, design, procurement and evaluation of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) system. One advantage of an object-oriented modeling language such as [SysML ](http://www.omgsysml.org/)is that it becomes simpler to compose a model into a larger context. This section uses the SysML Smart Home model created in the first three sections and connects it to a [Smart Grid](https://www.smartgrid.gov/the_smart_grid/smart_grid.html) energy system, which communicates energy pricing information to the Smart Home. Guided by this information and user preferences, the Smart Home shifts consumption to lower cost periods, in addition to the savings realized by intelligent room-by-room temperature control. The [ParaMagic ](https://www.intercax.com/paramagic)parametric solver tool uses stochastic modeling to predict sensitivity to low period energy costs and availability.

***Smart Home Interconnection with External Systems***

<https://intercax.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/interconnections.png>

***Monte Carlo simulation results of Smart Home/Smart Grid energy cost savings***

**Download:**

- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML (Part 5: Design, Simulation and System Architecture) technote](https://intercax.com/hubfs/Blogs/Smart%20Home%20IOT%20Part%201/IoT%20SmartHome%20Part%205%20%20Design%2c%20Simulation%20and%20System%20Architecture.pdf)
- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML (Part 4: Smart Home to Smart Grid) technote](https://intercax.com/hubfs/Blogs/Smart%20Home%20IOT%20Part%201/IoT%20SmartHome%20Part%205%20%20Design%2c%20Simulation%20and%20System%20Architecture.pdf)
- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML (Part 3: Procurement to Evaluation) technote](https://intercax.com/hubfs/Blogs/Smart%20Home%20IOT%20Part%201/Smart_Home__IoT_Part3_Procurement-to-Evaluation.pdf)
- [Smart_Home - Modeling IoT with SysML(Part2: Functional-Design-to-Procurement) technote](https://intercax.com/hubfs/Blogs/Smart%20Home%20IOT%20Part%201/Smart_Home__IoT_Part2_Functional-Design-to-Procurement.pdf)
- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML (Part 1: Requirements to Functional Design) technote](https://intercax.com/hubfs/Blogs/Smart%20Home%20IOT%20Part%201/Technote_Smart_Home_IoT_Part1_2015-09-15.pdf)

**Related Posts:**

- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML Part 5: Design, Simulation and System Architecture ](https://intercax.com/2016/03/22/smart-home-iot-5/)
- Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML Part 4: Smart Home to Smart Grid (This post)
- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML Part 3: Procurement to Evaluation](https://intercax.com/2016/02/06/smart-home-iot-3/)
- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML Part 2: Functional Design to Procurement](https://intercax.com/2015/12/20/smart-home-iot-2/)
- [Smart Home – Modeling IoT with SysML Part 1: Requirements to Functional Design](https://intercax.com/2015/09/21/smart-home-iot-1/)

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