Demand-driven power saving by multiagent negotiation for HVAC control

Yi Ting Tsao, Jane Yung Jen Hsu

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Abstract

Buildings account for roughly 40% of all U.S. energy use, and HVAC systems are a major culprit. The goal of this research is to reduce power consumption without sacrificing human comfort. This paper presents a cooling demand estimation from heat generation to assess the quantity of cooling supply, which helps diagnose potential problems in the HVAC system. A negotiation-based approach is proposed to balance power consumption, cooling for human comfort, and smooth operation for equipment health. Experiments were conducted with the NTU CSIE July 2012 dataset [6] as well as online live experiments in the computer science building on campus. The experiments demonstrated that the proposed method reduced 3.81% to 5.96% of power consumption with consideration of smoothness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJoint Proc. of the Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments, AI@IE 2013 and Workshop on Semantic Cities, SemCities 2013 - In Conj. with the 23rd IJCAI 2013
Pages9-14
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
EventJoint Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments, AI@IE 2013 and Workshop on Semantic Cities, SemCities 2013 - In Conj. with the 23rd Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 04 08 201305 08 2013

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

ConferenceJoint Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments, AI@IE 2013 and Workshop on Semantic Cities, SemCities 2013 - In Conj. with the 23rd Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period04/08/1305/08/13

Keywords

  • HVAC system
  • multi-agent system
  • power saving

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