Smart Buildings Energy Management Strategy Based on Consumer Budget: Experimental Implementation Perspective

Abstract

This paper presents a demand-side load management technique to manage the consumption in residential buildings by maximizing the user’s satisfaction at minimal cost or within a predefined budget. The load satisfaction algorithm has been developed based on three postulations making it possible to quantify the satisfaction. This algorithm used a genetic algorithm (GA) and it offers a good convergence speed, great flexibility and good efficiency compared to conventional techniques.