scholarly journals Embedded Fuzzy Logic Controller and Wireless Communication for Home Energy Management Systems

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryuanto Soetedjo ◽  
Yusuf Nakhoda ◽  
Choirul Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Controller ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Fuzzy Membership ◽  
Membership Functions ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Fuzzy Membership Functions ◽  
Home Energy Management

Energy management systems in residential areas have attracted the attention of many researchers along the deployment of smart grids, smart cities, and smart homes. This paper presents the implementation of a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) based on the fuzzy logic controller. The objective of the proposed HEMS is to minimize electricity cost by managing the energy from the photovoltaic (PV) to supply home appliances in the grid-connected PV-battery system. A fuzzy logic controller is implemented on a low-cost embedded system to achieve the objective. The fuzzy logic controller is developed by the distributed approach where each home appliance has its own fuzzy logic controller. An automatic tuning of the fuzzy membership functions using the Genetic Algorithm is developed to improve performance. To exchange data between the controllers, wireless communication based on WiFi technology is adopted. The proposed configuration provides a simple effective technology that can be implemented in residential homes. The experimental results show that the proposed system achieves a fast processing time on a ten-second basis, which is fast enough for HEMS implementation. When tested under four different scenarios, the proposed fuzzy logic controller yields an average cost reduction of 10.933% compared to the system without a fuzzy logic controller. Furthermore, by tuning the fuzzy membership functions using the genetic algorithm, the average cost reduction increases to 12.493%.

scholarly journals Design of Fuzzy Membership Functions for Predicting Student’s Knowledge Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salisu Muhammad Sani
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Control System ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Controller ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Fuzzy Membership ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Membership Functions ◽  
Fuzzy Membership Functions

A Fuzzy logic controller is a problem-solving control system that provides means for representing approximate knowledge. The output of a fuzzy controller is derived from the fuzzifications of crisp (numerical) inputs using associated membership functions. The crisp inputs are usually converted to the different members of the associated linguistic variables based on their respective values. This point is evident enough to show that the output of a fuzzy logic controller is heavily dependent on its memberships of the different membership functions, which can be considered as a range of inputs [4]. Input membership functions can take various forms trapezoids, triangles, bell curves, singleton or any other shape that accurately enables the distribution of information within the system, in as much as the shape provides a region of transition between adjacent membership functions.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Socially-Accepted Potentials for the Use of End User Flexibility by Home Energy Management Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Christian Pfeiffer ◽  
Markus Puchegger ◽  
Claudia Maier ◽  
Ina V. Tomaschitz ◽  
Thomas P. Kremsner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
System Support ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Sample Area ◽  
Home Energy Management ◽  
Support Optimization ◽  
Home Energy Management System

Due to the increase of volatile renewable energy resources, additional flexibility will be necessary in the electricity system in the future to ensure a technically and economically efficient network operation. Although home energy management systems hold potential for a supply of flexibility to the grid, private end users often neglect or even ignore recommendations regarding beneficial behavior. In this work, the social acceptance and requirements of a participatively developed home energy management system with focus on (i) system support optimization, (ii) self-consumption and self-sufficiency optimization, and (iii) additional comfort functions are determined. Subsequently, the socially-accepted flexibility potential of the home energy management system is estimated. Using methods of online household survey, cluster analysis, and energy-economic optimization, the socially-accepted techno-economic potential of households in a three-community cluster sample area is computed. Results show about a third of the participants accept the developed system. This yields a shiftable load of nearly 1.8 MW within the small sample area. Furthermore, the system yields the considerably larger monetary surplus on the supplier-side due to its focus on system support optimization. New electricity market opportunities are necessary to adequately reward a systemically useful load behavior of households.

scholarly journals Blockchain-Enabled Transactive Home Energy Management Systems in Distribution Networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawryn Edmonds ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Hongyu Wu ◽  
Hang Zhang ◽  
Don Gruenbacher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Electric Utility ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Customer Information ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Home Energy Management ◽  
System Operator

As home energy management systems (HEMSs) are implemented in homes as ways of reducing customer costs and providing demand response (DR) to the electric utility, homeowner’s privacy can be compromised. As part of the HEMS framework, homeowners are required to send load forecasts to the distribution system operator (DSO) for power balancing purposes. Submitting forecasts allows a platform for attackers to gain knowledge on user patterns based on the load information provided. The attacker could, for example, enter the home to steal valuable possessions when the homeowner is away. In this paper, we propose a framework using a smart contract within a private blockchain to keep customer information private when communicating with the DSO. The results show the HEMS users’ privacy is maintained, while the benefits of data sharing are obtained. Blockchain and its associated smart contracts may be a viable solution to security concerns in DR applications where load forecasts are sent to a DSO.

scholarly journals The Performance of Stock Portfolios formed using Fuzzy Logic

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit K. Sinha 1 ◽  
Andrew J. Jacob 2
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Expert System ◽  
Expert Systems ◽  
Fuzzy Membership ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Membership Functions ◽  
Fuzzy Membership Functions ◽  
Stock Portfolios ◽  
Financial Securities

Expert systems, a type of artificial intelligence that replicate how experts think, can aide unskilled users in making decisions or apply an expert’s thought process to a sample much larger than could be examined by a human expert. In this paper, an expert system that ranks financial securities using fuzzy membership functions is developed and applied to form portfolios. Our results indicate that this approach to form stock portfolios can result in superior returns than the market as measured by the return on the S&P 500. These portfolios may also provide superior risk-adjusted returns when compared to the market.

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