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An Efficient Home Energy Management Scheme Using Cuckoo Search

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Smart grid plays a significant role in decreasing of electricity consumption cost through Demand Side Management (DSM). Smart homes, a part of smart grid contributes a lot in minimizing electricity consumption cost via scheduling home appliances. However, user waiting time increases due to scheduling of home appliances. This scheduling problem is considered as an optimization problem. Meta-heuristic algorithms have attracted increasing attention in last few years for solving optimization problems. Hence, in this study we propose an efficient scheme in Home Energy Management System (HEMS) using Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Cuckoo search algorithm to solve optimization problem. The proposed scheme is implemented on a single smart home and a smart building; comprising of thirty smart homes. Real Time Pricing (RTP) signals are used in term of electricity cost estimation for both single smart home and a smart building. Experimental results demonstrate the extremely effectiveness of our proposed scheme for single and multiple smart homes in terms of electricity cost and Peak to Average Ratio (PAR) minimization. Moreover, our proposed scheme obtains the desired tradeoff between electricity cost and user waiting time.

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Aslam, S. et al. (2018). An Efficient Home Energy Management Scheme Using Cuckoo Search. In: Xhafa, F., Caballé, S., Barolli, L. (eds) Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. 3PGCIC 2017. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69835-9_15

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