Exploring a peer-to-peer market for distributed energy.
SENTRA brings together my electrical engineering background and interest in market design: how can local energy exchange become fair, responsive, and technically credible?
P2Plocal energy exchange
ROLE
System architect and researcher
WHEN
Research concept · 2026
WITH
Independent academic project
SENTRA asks how households and small producers in a local energy network could exchange surplus electricity directly. The concept combines power engineering with questions usually treated as software or economics: pricing, trust, communication, and settlement.
The proposed architecture uses embedded metering, ESP32 devices, and LoRa communication as the physical layer for a peer-to-peer market. Adaptive pricing and transparent transaction records sit above that infrastructure.
The proposed architecture combines embedded metering and communication with adaptive pricing and transparent transaction settlement.
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THE PROCESS01 02 03
How I moved through the work.
Define the actors
Model prosumers, consumers, meters, communication nodes, and the local market rather than starting with a single device.
Connect both layers
Keep energy flow, measurements, communications, price signals, and settlement in one architecture.
Plan validation
Separate what can be simulated first from what later requires physical metering and communication tests.
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KEY DECISIONS
The choices that shaped the result.
- Use LoRa where local coverage and low-power communication matter
- Keep pricing adaptive to local supply and demand
- Treat metering integrity as part of market trust
- Present SENTRA as a research direction until simulation and hardware validation exist
WHAT IT DELIVERED
Connected power engineering with market design
Explored ESP32 and LoRa-based infrastructure
Defined a foundation for simulation and future validation
MY SCOPE
System architecture
Power systems
Embedded communication
Research framing
SENTRA is intentionally honest about its stage. It shows the kind of research problem I want to pursue: one where algorithms, market mechanisms, and physical infrastructure constrain each other.