Intelligent Management on the Home Consumers with Zero Energy Consumption

Kazem Khani,Mohammad Iman Ghiasi

doi:10.11591/ijeei.v5i3.287

Abstract

The energy and environment crisis has forced modern humans to think about new and clean energy sources and in particular, renewable energy sources. With the development of home network, the residents have the opportunity to plan the home electricity usage with the goal of reducing the cost of electricity. In this regard, to improve the energy consumption efficiency in residential buildings, smart buildings with zero energy consumption were considered as a proper option. Zero-energy building is a building that has smart equipment whose integral of generated and consumed power within a year is zero. In this article, smart devices submit their power consumption with regard to the requested activity associated with the user’s time setting for run times and end times of the work to the energy management unit and ultimately the time to start work will be determined. The problem’s target function is reducing the energy cost for the consumer with taking into account the applicable limitations.

Highlights

Recent research indicates that 20 to 30 percent of the energy consumed in the buildings can be reduced through optimized operation and management without a change in the structure of the building’s energy supply system
There is a need for an approach that employs the least user intervention and by having sufficient information about the amount of power and duration of consuming of each smart load during consumption scheduling period, to manage the load according to the intended target function and the restrictions at hand [4]
At network’s peak load hours when usually the price of electricity is high, the homes - relative to their dependence on the network- use their surplus production to help network operators to balance the supply and demand. This would reduce the operational problems at peak hours and reduces the production of fossil fuel power plants in these hours

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Introduction

Recent research indicates that 20 to 30 percent of the energy consumed in the buildings can be reduced through optimized operation and management without a change in the structure of the building’s energy supply system. The increase in energy consumption and multiple restrictions on development of production resources triggered a comprehensive global study about energy consumption strategies on the demand side and at the same time to avoid damages to the process of development and growth of countries. The energy management system of smart zero-energy consumption building controls and schedules energy consumption of smart loads. There is a need for an approach that employs the least user intervention and by having sufficient information about the amount of power and duration of consuming of each smart load during consumption scheduling period, to manage the load according to the intended target function and the restrictions at hand [4]. In previous studies with the exception of article [3] of this document, so far it was assumed that electric devices can be connected and disconnected for an unlimited number of times during their activity periods which is not practical, in other references, only the total energy consumption of each of electrical appliance and its range of performance regardless of changes, device’s power consumption in its operational phases, and the consumption profiles were used; but in this study these weaknesses have been resolved [7]

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