Title
Load Balancing Integrated Least Slack Time-Based Appliance Scheduling for Smart Home Energy Management.
Abstract
The emergence of smart devices and smart appliances has highly favored the realization of the smart home concept. Modern smart home systems handle a wide range of user requirements. Energy management and energy conservation are in the spotlight when deploying sophisticated smart homes. However, the performance of energy management systems is highly influenced by user behaviors and adopted energy management approaches. Appliance scheduling is widely accepted as an effective mechanism to manage domestic energy consumption. Hence, we propose a smart home energy management system that reduces unnecessary energy consumption by integrating an automated switching off system with load balancing and appliance scheduling algorithm. The load balancing scheme acts according to defined constraints such that the cumulative energy consumption of the household is managed below the defined maximum threshold. The scheduling of appliances adheres to the least slack time (LST) algorithm while considering user comfort during scheduling. The performance of the proposed scheme has been evaluated against an existing energy management scheme through computer simulation. The simulation results have revealed a significant improvement gained through the proposed LST-based energy management scheme in terms of cost of energy, along with reduced domestic energy consumption facilitated by an automated switching off mechanism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18030685
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
smart home,appliance scheduling,least slack time,load balancing,energy management
Energy management,Energy conservation,Load balancing (computing),Electronic engineering,Home automation,Domestic energy consumption,Least slack time scheduling,Energy management system,Engineering,Energy consumption,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
3.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.49
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bhagya Nathali Silva1214.92
Murad Khan215022.14
Kijun Han329456.26