A complete copper optimization technique using BB-BC in a smart home for a smarter grid and a comparison with GA

Author

Prudhvi, P.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Technol., Warangal, India

fYear

2011

fDate

8-11 May 2011

Abstract

Optimizing the use of copper especially in the distribution system not only reduces the cost but more importantly lowers the copper losses. This paper presents a unique innovative technique which reduces copper volume while enabling home automation. This model of smart home is designed to provide a base for Smart Grid´s functions like demand side management, AMR, load shedding etc. The optimization problem is solved with a Big Bang-Big Crunch algorithm inspired from Big Bang Theory and the results obtained are compared with adapted Genetic algorithm to demonstrate the efficiency of BBBC.

Keywords

demand side management; distribution networks; home automation; load shedding; optimisation; smart power grids; AMR; BB-BC; Big Bang-Big Crunch algorithm; GA; copper loss reduction; copper optimization technique; copper volume reduction; demand side management; distribution system; home automation; innovative technique; load shedding; smart grid; smart home; Convergence; Copper; Genetic algorithms; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Optimization; Wires; control board; optimisation; smartgrid; smarthome; wiring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2011 24th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9788-1

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2011.6030410

Filename

6030410