Smart heating and air conditioning scheduling method incorporating customer convenience for home energy management system

Author

Hyung-Chul Jo ; Sangwon Kim ; Sung-Kwan Joo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

59

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

322

Abstract

A Home Energy Management System (HEMS) is expected to be vital for saving energy costs considering the time-varying price of electric power in a smart home environment. Studies on various energy resources such as energy storage systems and fuel cells in a smart home environment are required for HEMS development. In the area of the HEMSs, however, there exists very limited research on heating and air conditioning scheduling incorporating customer convenience. This paper presents a smart heating and air conditioning scheduling method for HEMS that considers customer convenience as well as characteristics of thermal appliances in a smart home environment. The prototype software based on the proposed method for HEMS is also implemented.

Keywords

air conditioning; building management systems; domestic appliances; energy management systems; pricing; scheduling; space heating; HEMS; air conditioning scheduling method; customer convenience; electric power; energy cost saving; energy resources; energy storage systems; fuel cells; home energy management system; smart heating; smart home environment; thermal appliances characteristics; time-varying price; Air conditioning; Energy resources; Heating; Home appliances; Scheduling; Smart homes; Software; Home energy management system; customer convenience; energy resource scheduling; smartheating and air conditioning scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2013.6531112

Filename

6531112