A Scheduler for Smart Home Appliances Based on a Novel Concept of Tariff Space

Author:

Rebouças Coutinho Luis Rodolfo1ORCID,Barroso Giovanni Cordeiro1ORCID,Prata Bruno de Athayde2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza 60455-760, CE, Brazil

2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza 60455-760, CE, Brazil

Abstract

The background of this work is related to the scheduling of household appliances, taking into account variations in energy costs during the day from official Brazilian domestic tariffs: constant and white. The white tariff can reach an average price of around 17% lower than the constant, but charges twice its value at peak hours. In addition to cost reduction, we propose a methodology to reduce user discomfort due to time-shifting of controllable devices, presenting a balanced solution through the analytical analysis of a new method referred to as tariff space, derived from white tariff posts. To achieve this goal, we explore the geometric properties of the movement of devices through the tariff space (geometric locus of the load), over which we can define a limited region in which the cost of a load under the white tariff will be equal to or less than the constant tariff. As a trial for the efficiency of this new methodology, we collected some benchmarks (such as execution time and memory usage) against a classic multi-objective algorithm (hierarchical) available in the language portfolio in which the project has been executed (the Julia language). As a result, while both methodologies yield similar results, the approach presented in this article demonstrates a significant reduction in processing time and memory usage, which could lead to the future implementation of the solution in a simple, low-cost embedded system like an ARM cortex M.

Funder

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

Publisher

MDPI AG

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