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- Title
Central Heating Cost Optimization for Smart-Homes with Fuzzy Logic and a Multi-Agent Architecture.
- Authors
Jiménez-Bravo, Diego M.; Lozano Murciego, Álvaro; de la Iglesia, Daniel H.; De Paz, Juan F.; Villarrubia González, Gabriel
- Abstract
Recent years have defined the need to reduce gas emissions to fight climate change, and society's move to green energies is important to make responsible use of non-renewable energies. Therefore, it is now important to use technologies to optimize the use of actual energy sources. In this aspect, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has had a great impact on society. Hence, this research work aims to use IoT technology and multi-agent systems to optimize the use of central heating installation in buildings. It is intended to improve the user's comfort, reduce the consumption of energy and reduce the financial costs. Therefore, a multi-agent system is proposed to collect data from sensors located in a smart-home and obtain the best action to perform in a central heating system. The decisions will be taken by an intelligent agent based on fuzzy logic. This technology will allow for generating the control action with a fuzzy controller. The results obtained show that the proposal improves the actual system in terms of users' comfort and financial and energy savings.
- Subjects
FUZZY logic; ENERGY consumption; MULTIAGENT systems; HEATING; INTERNET of things; INTELLIGENT agents; FINANCIAL databases
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 12, p4057
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app10124057