© 2013 Zhuang Zhao et al. 677 In this paper, we first introduce a general architecture of an energy management system in a home area network based on a smart grid. Then, we propose an efficient scheduling method for home power usage. The home gateway (HG) receives the demand response (DR) information indicating the real-time electricity price, which is transferred to an energy management contro...

Greater availability and affordability of distributed energy generation and storage has made home energy management an increasingly complex task. To get the most value out of the system as a whole, forecasting of generation and demand (and sometimes price) is becoming more important. At the same time, cloud-based computational resources, data sources, and weather forecasts are now easier to acc...

This paper focuses on an approach to build ontology for home energy management domain which is compatible with Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). Our starting point in doing so was to study general classifications of home electrical appliances provided by various home appliances vendors and manufacturers. Various vendors and manufacturers use their own arbitrary classification instead of u...

A home automation system basically consists of household appliances linked via a communication network allowing interactions for control purposes (Palensky & Posta, 1997). Thanks to this network, a load management mechanism can be carried out: it is called distributed control in (Wacks, 1993). Load management allows inhabitants to adjust power consumption according to expected comfort, energy p...

This paper describes the Intelligent Energy and Power Management System (IEPMS) to manage power distribution and power consumption in home space. The thought of dynamic assignment of priorities for all the patron is delineate during this paper. Slicing of interrupt timings conjointly mentioned which might be wont to improve the performance and additionally we are able to show the Units of Power...

Home energy management is increasingly important. Though there are a plethora of tools for aiding home energy management, few provide concrete suggestions for helping users to manage energy demand. A key component in developing automated energy management schemes is drawing a connection between energy usage and a user’s context. Existing approaches either rely on users to annotate data after th...

In present days there are wide varieties of household electric appliances along with different power consumption habits of consumers, making identifying electric appliances without presetting difficulty. This paper introduces smart appliance management system to recognize electric appliances in home networks, which uses sensing devices that measure current to calculate the power consumption of ...