Intelligent Residential Energy Management System

Abstract

Energy crisis is one of the critical problems faced by the world and the energy demand is increasing day by day. Energy Management performed efficiently is one of the possible solutions to address this global problem. An Intelligent Residential Energy Management System (IREMS) that effectively switches the loads between the battery and renewable energy source using smart tools like Support Vector Machine (SVM) is proposed in this paper. The power generated from the renewable energy source used, i.e., solar is stored in a battery and is used to power up the appliances, thus reducing the power consumption from the grid. Depending on the availability of grid and charge in the battery, the IREMS system intelligently decides the switching of the loads between the battery and the grid. IREMS algorithm is validated on a domestic setup having different types of loads in hardware. IREMS is housed in a LPC6148 microcontroller and subsequent room controllers that execute the decisions as communicated by the IREMS are also developed.