EVOLUTION OF DOMESTIC ENERGY MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES: A REVIEW OF HOME AUTOMATION (original) (raw)

Home energy management systems in future smart grids

We present a detailed review of various Home Energy Management Schemes (HEM,s). HEM,s will increase savings, reduce peak demand and Pto Average Ratio (PAR). Among various applications of smart grid technologies, home energy management is probably the most important one to be addressed. Various steps have been taken by utilities for efficient energy consumption.New pricing schemes like Time of Use (ToU), Real Time Pricing (RTP), Critical Peak Pricing (CPP), Inclining Block Rates (IBR) etc have been been devised for future smart grids.Home appliances and/or distributed energy resources coordination (Local Generation) along with different pricing schemes leads towards efficient energy consumption. This paper addresses various communication and optimization based residential energy management schemes and different communication and networking technologies involved in these schemes. INDEX TERMS-Smart grid, Home energy management, optimization.

Home Energy Management System Concepts, Configurations, and Technologies for the Smart Grid

IEEE Access

Home energy management systems (HEMSs) help manage electricity demand to optimize energy consumption and distributed renewable energy generation without compromising consumers' comfort. HEMSs operate according to multiple criteria, including energy cost, weather conditions, load profiles, and consumer comfort. They play an increasingly ubiquitous role in energy efficiency through the reduction of electricity consumption within residential and commercial smart grids. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the HEMS literature with reference to main concepts, configurations, and enabling technologies. In doing so, it also provides a summary of HEMS computing trends and popular communication technologies for demand response applications. The ensuing survey offers the reader with an overall overview of current and future trends in HEMS solutions and technologies. INDEX TERMS Home energy management system, demand response, smart technologies, integrated wireless technology, intelligent scheduling controller.

Home automation as a tool to Management household Electricity Consumption

AI Publication, 2019

This article presents a feasibility study to use home automation as a tool to manage and reduce household electricity cost. It is a result obtained after checking different academic’s research articles about domotics and the perception that there is a gap when it is related with home automation systems that perform the management of energy resources. To many academic’s researches talk about the comfort provided by home automation, but a few about managing and optimizing the use of energy resources. At the end, some points and suggestions for future research are raised to complement this article.

A Survey of Home Energy Management Systems in Future Smart Grid Communications

2013 Eighth International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, 2013

In this paper we present a systematic review of various home energy management (HEM) schemes. Employment of home energy management programs will make the electricity consumption smarter and more efficient. Advantages of HEM include, increased savings for consumers as well as utilities, reduced peak to average ratio (PAR) and peak demand. Where there are numerous applications of smart grid technologies, home energy management is probably the most important one to be addressed.

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The high energy required by home appliances (like white goods, audio/video devices and communication equipments) and air conditioning systems (heating and cooling), makes our homes one of the most critical areas for the impact of energy consumption on natural environment. Smart homes hold the potential for increasing energy efficiency, decreasing costs of energy use, decreasing the carbon footprint by including renewable resources, and transforming the role of the occupant. To deliver a sustained economic growth rate and to meet life time energy needs of all citizens, Nigeria needs to increase its primary energy supply by about 5 times and electricity generation capacity about 6 times. As a result energy service demand growth rates will keep on increasing because of accelerated industrialization, urbanization, and an emerging consumer society. A home energy management (HEM) system has the potential to enable demand response (DR) implementation for residential customers. The simplest technique to save power and consequently the costs is when we switch off the lights and other appliances as soon as we leave the room. However, this is not a second nature to many of us. This paper presents a detailed hardware architecture of HEM, the idea is to automate, by creating a device that monitors "changes" in the environment and respond to the situation. By switching off lights and fans in a timely manner, we stand to save costs on electricity bill. This paper also present a detailed review of various Home Energy Management Schemes (HEM’s).

IJERT-Smart Home Energy Management - the Future of Energy Conservation: A Review

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2020

https://www.ijert.org/smart-home-energy-management-the-future-of-energy-conservation-a-review https://www.ijert.org/research/smart-home-energy-management-the-future-of-energy-conservation-a-review-IJERTV9IS070134.pdf Energy management in households gets increasingly more attention in the attempt to integrate more sustainable energy resources. With the rising cost of energy and the ever-increasing demand, we and our house have to get smart to keep the bills down. Smart grid systems are envisioned to be a part of this effort towards a better utilization of energy production and distribution infrastructure. The Home Energy Management System (HEMS) can be considered as the foundation in this endeavor. Its main goal is to enable energy management services for efficient monitoring and management of electricity generation, power conservation, as well as energy storage methods designed within the smart home. With the role of being both, an essential link in transmission infrastructure for balancing the electric grid and a surveillance unit in private homes, the technology used becomes essential to address. This review gives an insight on how the smart grid combines artificial intelligence, computing, communication and Internet technologies to create a smarter power system. It enables in producing better power quality and lower generation cost in comparison to the conventional power grid transmission system. The study will discuss about the development of HEMS associated with smart grid technology distinguishing its features from the traditional methods and hence suggesting a framework for improving the power losses and the voltage profile.

A Survey of Home Energy Management for Residential Customers

The state of the art of old-age grids into smart grids provides residents the opportunity to schedule their appliances to consume the energy optimally that leads to potentially balance the demand side as well as the supply side more effectively and minimizes the power Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR), which ultimately provides benefit to the residents in the form of reduction cost and expense. The Energy Management System (EMS) in the home receives the market and system signals and controls the loads, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC), storages and local generation units according to the user preferences. This survey encompasses novel home energy management techniques including different shiftable and nonshiftable load scheduling methods and peak shaving strategies. Several Pricing strategies have been suggested for smart grid such as, Real-Time Pricing (RTP), Time of Use (ToU), Inclining Block Rates (IBR), Critical Peak Pricing (CPP), etc. Moreover, this paper discusses the HEM architecture and reveals that the different energy management techniques intelligently schedule the appliances in order to satisfy the maximum resident’s comfort level and consume the energy optimally.

General Overview and Proof of Concept of a Smart Home Energy Management System Architecture

Electronics

This paper proposes and implements a smart architecture for Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) that enables interoperability among devices from different manufacturers. This is achieved through the use of standardized elements and the design of an innovative middleware. The system comprises a control unit that communicates with smart outlets using the Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (WI-SUN) Home Area Network (HAN) specification, while smart metering is achieved using the WI-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) specification. To manage important data, a web platform and mobile app were created. Additionally, machine learning techniques are utilized to identify energy consumption of individual appliances when only the aggregate energy consumption of the house is available. The architecture presented here supports real-time control of energy use and generation through HEMS, and new devices can be added transparently. Finally, a comparison of the proposed system with similar systems in li...

A detailed study of Automation Techniques at Home that contribute to Energy Efficiency

2022

Witnessed with the increase in energy consumption and population, there is great concern to conserve energy in every possible way. Lack of access to and management of electrical equipment from remote areas is one of the main causes of power loss. Therefore, the concept of smart house is gaining attention a few years ago. The current ‘system’ is also ready to solve one or two of those problems. However, a smart home automation ‘system’ is not only secure, but, nevertheless, even the most intelligent understanding process and analytical talents have. This method will create the use of ‘WiFi’, ‘GSM’, ‘Bluetooth’, ‘ZigBee’ completely different governing devices are available in existing ‘system’s. The Internet or associate degree application automaton is used by users to provide directions to those ‘system’. These applications are already available in a few places for a large variety of applications. Also, an automatic home reduces excess energy loss and helps save energy. This paper pr...