A smart appliance control method for smart home management systems

In this thesis, a study which is related to a home energy management system has been investigated in order that power consumption is more efficiency against increasing energy demand. Appliances in smart home are classified as controllable and uncontrollable appliances. In smart home, usage habits of appliances have been determined by using sensors and power measurement units. Operating times of appliances have been recorded in database with certain time intervals. By scheduling operating times of controllable appliances, it is aimed that user comfort increases. It is also aimed that cost of consumed energy is low level. Furthermore, by determining a maximum power, it is investigated whether power limit exceed when appliances operate. In the proposed home energy management system, operating time scheduling problem of controllable appliances has been solved while user comfort increases, electricity cost reduces, and power limit does not exceed. In order to be able to solve this problem, three different purposes are minimized. These purposes which have different parameter are brought same level by using normalization technique. LMS (Least Mean Square) method has obtained optimal solution by using Euclidean distance approach. Operating time scheduling of controllable appliances has demonstrated with examples.