Paper Info
Title
Smart Petri Nets Temperature Control Framework for Reducing Building Energy Consumption.
Abstract
Energy consumption is steadily increasing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which imposes continuous strains on the electrical load. Furthermore, consumption rationalization measures do not seem to improve the situation in any way. Therefore, the implementation of energy saving policies become an urgent need. This paper targets developing a smart energy-saving framework for integrating new advanced technologies and conventional Air Conditioning (AC) systems to achieve a comfortable environment, optimum energy efficiency and profitability. In this paper, a three-stage smart control framework, which allows controlling room temperature according to the user's preferences, is implemented. The first stage is a user identification process. In the second stage, a Petri Nets (PN) model monitors users and sends their preferred temperatures to the third stage. A PID controller is implemented in the third stage to regulate room temperatures. The interconnected sensing and actuating devices in this smart environment are configured to provide users with comfort and energy saving functionality. Experimental results show the good performances and features of the proposed approach. The proposed smart framework reduces the energy consumption of the current ON/OFF controller (219.09 kW) by a significant amount which reaches (116.58 kW) by ratio about 46.79%. Reducing energy consumption is one of these important features in addition to system reactivity and user comfort.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19112441
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
petri nets,PID,air conditioning,energy consumption,smart systems
Automotive engineering,Air conditioning,Smart environment,Control theory,Smart system,Petri net,Efficient energy use,Temperature control,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Energy consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
11
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kheir Eddine Bouazza110.82
Wael A. Deabes254.12