Abstract
The research and the implementation of home automation are getting more popular because the Internet of Things holds promise for making homes smarter through wireless technologies. The installation of systems based on wireless networks can play a key role also in the extension of the smart grid towards smart homes, that can be deemed as one of the most important components of smart grids. This paper proposes a fuzzy-based solution for smart energy management in a home automation wireless network. The approach, by using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), introduces a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) in order to improve a Home Energy Management (HEM) scheme, addressing the power load of standby appliances and their loads in different hours of the day. Since the consumer is involved in the choice of switching on/off of home appliances, the approach introduced in this work proposes a fuzzy-based solution in order to manage the consumer feedbacks. Simulation results show that the proposed solution is efficient in terms of reducing peak load demand, electricity consumption charges with an increase comfort level of consumers. The performance of the proposed BLE-based wireless network scenario are validated in terms of packet delivery ratio, delay, and jitter and are compared to IEEE 802.15.4 technology.
Highlights
In recent years, with the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT), the research and the implementation of home automation are getting more popular [1], because the IoT holds promise for making homes smarter
An energy management approach for smart homes that combines a Wireless Network based on Bluetooth Low Energy, for the communication among home appliances, with a Home Energy
Management scheme, improved by a consumer fuzzy-based approach, has been proposed in this paper. This combination has been implemented because residential energy management, smart appliances, Wireless Networks (WNs), and their integration into smart home network applications are becoming popular topics
Summary
With the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT), the research and the implementation of home automation are getting more popular [1], because the IoT holds promise for making homes smarter. They can receive the user feedbacks in order to meet the itself comfort Several wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) [8], IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee [9] and IEEE 802.11/Wi-Fi [10], have been proposed in order to embed various levels of intelligence for smart homes. The benefits of the proposed solution are confirmed by validations, whereas, to the best of our knowledge, there are no works in the literature in which BLE is applied in a wireless network that supports a fuzzy-based HEM scheme. It is possible to use several ready solutions on the market, such as [18,19,20,21,22], whose cost can range from 100 e to 500 e
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