Paper Info
Title
An Agent-Based Approach to Monitoring and Control of District Heating Systems
Abstract
The aim is to improve the monitoring and control of district heating systems through the use of agent technology. In order to increase the knowledge about the current and future state in a district heating system at the producer side, each substation is equipped with an agent that makes predictions of future consumption and monitors current consumption. The contributions to the consumers, will be higher quality of service, e.g., better ways to deal with major shortages of heat water, which is facilitated by the introduction of redistribution agents, and lower costs since less energy is needed for the heat production. Current substations are purely reactive devices and have no communication capabilities. Thus, they are restricted to making local decisions without taking into account the global situation. However, a new type of "open" substation has been developed which makes the suggested agent-based approach possible.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
IEA/AIE
future consumption,agent-based approach,heat production,current substation,district heating system,future state,current consumption,district heating,heat water,agent technology,redistribution agent,quality of service,computer science
Field
DocType
Volume
Monitoring and control,Heating system,Service quality,Computer science,Decision support system,Operations research,Quality of service,Risk analysis (engineering),Redistribution (cultural anthropology),Control system,Economic shortage,Distributed computing
Conference
2358
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-43781-9
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.84
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fredrik Wernstedt1386.19
Paul Davidsson231553.19