With the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. Smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. As a key component of smart home , Electric Vehicle(EV) ,increase...

The escalating demand on electric vehicles (EVs) has enhanced the necessity of adequate charging infrastructure, especially in residential areas. This article proposes a smart approach for off-board EVs chargers home-energy-hub (HEH) applications along with dc sources such as photovoltaic and battery storage (BS). proposed method facilitates discharging to obtain both vehicle-to-x x-to-vehicle ...

In smart home environment, different kinds of system components including hardware elements, software components, network connections, and sensors are required to cooperate with each other to reduce environmental burden by energy management and to support human’s life allow for a comfortable lifestyle. This paper proposes a concept of an agent-oriented middleware for smart home that consists of...