Intelligent energy management in residential buildings with a real-time control & wireless meter-recording system

Industrial evolution brings major new challenges due to increasing energy demands. This phenomenon encourages the improvement of control methodologies that reduce resource requirements. Lately, it has been observed that the building sector contributes considerably to final energy demand. Consequently, studies have been conducted on the technical systems and solutions applied in this sector to the intelligent management of energy. Our work focuses on the smart control of energy management systems to monitor operation of electrical equipment. This paper starts by addressing the structure of the control system in buildings, which involves the connection of equipment, to enable communication with each other, and the integration of micro-sensors to enable automatic control of meter-recording systems. We then present an application for a heating control. This application uses a new real-time control method that allows peak consumption to be reduced while maintaining thermal comfort. It is based on wireless sensor network (WNS) technology which offers simultaneous measurement, and an interoperable communication network for the control method proposed. This method is tested and the results demonstrate the outstanding quality of its capability to control heating load and to adapt to any problems that may arise (by taking into account changing price, signals from energy provider and distribution system operator, etc). Index Terms Smart Home, WNS, Building Energy Management System (BEMS), HVAC equipment, Machine-toMachine (M2M).