Short-term daily load forecasting in an intelligent home with GA-based neural network

Daily load forecasting is essential to improve the reliability of the AC power line data network and provide optimal load scheduling in an intelligent home system. In this paper, a short-term daily load forecasting realized by a GA-based neural network is proposed. A neural network with a switch introduced to each link is employed to minimize forecasting errors and forecast the daily load with respect to different day types and weather information. Genetic algorithm (GA) with arithmetic crossover and non-uniform mutation is used to learn the input-output relationships of an application and the. optimal network structure. Simulation results on a short-term daily load forecasting in an intelligent home will be given