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The ever-increasing demand for comfort in the home has continually given rise to the level of electricity consumption thereby opening up more opportunities for home energy management systems (HEMS). HEMS play vital roles both on the demand side and the supplier side of the electricity supply chain as well as in the environmental protection arena. The major focus of HEMS has been to improve energy efficiency in the home without negatively impacting the comfort levels. To prove the feasibility of HEMS implementation in real homes, demonstration in a simulation environment using virtual appliances and devices are used to emulate the real smart home situation. Various simulation tools have been used to emulate electrical home appliances with the aim of demonstrating how HEMS can be beneficial when utilized in homes. This paper presents a review of home energy simulation tools considering system architecture, intelligence, user interface (UI) as well as efficiency.
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This work is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 701697.
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Sun, M., Dannah, W., Liu, Q., Liu, X. (2019). A Survey of Simulators for Home Energy Management: System Architecture, Intelligence, UI and Efficiency. In: Sun, X., Pan, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Security. ICAIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24271-8_20
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