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Internet of things (IoT) based adaptive energy management system for smart homes
PhD ThesisInternet of things enhances the flexibility of measurements under different environments, the
development of advanced wireless sensors and communication networks on the smart grid
infrastructure would be essential for energy efficiency systems. It makes deployment of a
smart home concept easy and realistic. The smart home concept allows residents to control,
monitor and manage their energy consumption with minimal wastage. The scheduling of
energy usage enables forecasting techniques to be essential for smart homes. This thesis
presents a self-learning home management system based on machine learning techniques
and energy management system for smart homes.
Home energy management system, demand side management system, supply side management system, and power notification system are the major components of the proposed
self-learning home management system. The proposed system has various functions including price forecasting, price clustering, power forecasting alert, power consumption alert, and
smart energy theft system to enhance the capabilities of the self-learning home management
system. These functions were developed and implemented through the use of computational
and machine learning technologies. In order to validate the proposed system, real-time power
consumption data were collected from a Singapore smart home and a realistic experimental
case study was carried out. The case study had proven that the developed system performing
well and increased energy awareness to the residents. This proposed system also showcases its customizable ability according to different types of environments as compared to
traditional smart home models.
Forecasting systems for the electricity market generation have become one of the foremost
research topics in the power industry. It is essential to have a forecasting system that can
accurately predict electricity generation for planning and operation in the electricity market.
This thesis also proposed a novel system called multi prediction system and it is developed
based on long short term memory and gated recurrent unit models. This proposed system is
able to predict the electricity market generation with high accuracy.
Multi Prediction System is based on four stages which include a data collecting and
pre-processing module, a multi-input feature model, multi forecast model and mean absolute
percentage error. The data collecting and pre-processing module preprocess the real-time
data using a window method. Multi-input feature model uses single input feeding method,
double input feeding method and multiple feeding method for features input to the multi
forecast model. Multi forecast model integrates long short term memory and gated recurrent
unit variations such as regression model, regression with time steps model, memory between
batches model and stacked model to predict the future generation of electricity. The mean
absolute percentage error calculation was utilized to evaluate the accuracy of the prediction.
The proposed system achieved high accuracy results to demonstrate its performance
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Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning
Building thermal load prediction informs the optimization of cooling plant and thermal energy storage. Physics-based prediction models of building thermal load are constrained by the model and input complexity. In this study, we developed 12 data-driven models (7 shallow learning, 2 deep learning, and 3 heuristic methods) to predict building thermal load and compared shallow machine learning and deep learning. The 12 prediction models were compared with the measured cooling demand. It was found XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boost) and LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) provided the most accurate load prediction in the shallow and deep learning category, and both outperformed the best baseline model, which uses the previous day's data for prediction. Then, we discussed how the prediction horizon and input uncertainty would influence the load prediction accuracy. Major conclusions are twofold: first, LSTM performs well in short-term prediction (1 h ahead) but not in long term prediction (24 h ahead), because the sequential information becomes less relevant and accordingly not so useful when the prediction horizon is long. Second, the presence of weather forecast uncertainty deteriorates XGBoost's accuracy and favors LSTM, because the sequential information makes the model more robust to input uncertainty. Training the model with the uncertain rather than accurate weather data could enhance the model's robustness. Our findings have two implications for practice. First, LSTM is recommended for short-term load prediction given that weather forecast uncertainty is unavoidable. Second, XGBoost is recommended for long term prediction, and the model should be trained with the presence of input uncertainty
Integration of Legacy Appliances into Home Energy Management Systems
The progressive installation of renewable energy sources requires the
coordination of energy consuming devices. At consumer level, this coordination
can be done by a home energy management system (HEMS). Interoperability issues
need to be solved among smart appliances as well as between smart and
non-smart, i.e., legacy devices. We expect current standardization efforts to
soon provide technologies to design smart appliances in order to cope with the
current interoperability issues. Nevertheless, common electrical devices affect
energy consumption significantly and therefore deserve consideration within
energy management applications. This paper discusses the integration of smart
and legacy devices into a generic system architecture and, subsequently,
elaborates the requirements and components which are necessary to realize such
an architecture including an application of load detection for the
identification of running loads and their integration into existing HEM
systems. We assess the feasibility of such an approach with a case study based
on a measurement campaign on real households. We show how the information of
detected appliances can be extracted in order to create device profiles
allowing for their integration and management within a HEMS
A survey of self organisation in future cellular networks
This article surveys the literature over the period of the last decade on the emerging field of self organisation as applied to wireless cellular communication networks. Self organisation has been extensively studied and applied in adhoc networks, wireless sensor networks and autonomic computer networks; however in the context of wireless cellular networks, this is the first attempt to put in perspective the various efforts in form of a tutorial/survey. We provide a comprehensive survey of the existing literature, projects and standards in self organising cellular networks. Additionally, we also aim to present a clear understanding of this active research area, identifying a clear taxonomy and guidelines for design of self organising mechanisms. We compare strength and weakness of existing solutions and highlight the key research areas for further development. This paper serves as a guide and a starting point for anyone willing to delve into research on self organisation in wireless cellular communication networks
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