Home Energy Management Control Algorithm

Energy Management Living Environment

Energy Management Home

Sensors

Technical Scopes
HVAC & HA system selection installation

HA Control Algo.

Building integrated renewable energy resources, e.g.PV + SB Home energy management system

DR

Approach :Sim & Implement

EM Control Algo. UI

Building cooling and heating demand calculation Power generation estimation based on forecasted weather condition and device model Control, optimization & management strategy development & evaluation
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Visual Sensor Home Energy Management

Home Energy Management Control @ HAs
EM Features 1.Individual Performance 2.Tuned to Components 3.Single HA performance EM Operations 1.Not Dependent on ext. Devices 2.May be compliance to utility operators

Control @ i-SEG
EM Features 1.Control Group of HAs 2.Tuned to System Level of Components 3.Tuned to different HA performance EM Operations 1.Dependent on Ext Devices 2.Compliance to regional utility operators 3.Need Displays for user settings 4.Control Algorithms for group of Devices

Control on Platform
EM Features 1.Control Group of HAs 2.Tuned to System Level of Components 3.Tuned to different HA performance 4.Sensing from Usage of connected CEs & Occupants 5.Inputs from add on sensors in home and CEs EM Operations 1.Dependent on Ext Devices 2.Compliance to regional utility operators 3.Exploit existing Display for HMI 4.Control Algorithms include additional Sensors inputs

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Energy Management Commercial (1/2)

Panasonic View Point
Specialize Market for AV Control and Communication + Energy Management

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AV Control + Energy Management

Possible Permutations
Visual (Business Use Cases)
Automated Receptionist Security Access Remote Control of Devices

Energy Management (B & C)

Consumption Control of Equipment / HA Usage Display & Management

AV (Home Use Cases)

AV Program Summary Remote Access to Audio & Visual IPTV Functions Visual Communication Secure Camera access Security Camera Prompts

Commercial Control Audio/Video Music Security Energy Management

Target Small Biz & Enterprise

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Energy Management Commercial (2/2)

Panasonic View Point
Home Lifestyle 2nd Display Screen - AV Communication + Energy Management + Device Management

Intel Home Dashboard

Display a snapshot of homes wellbeing Platform for 2nd Home Screen - Lifestyle
Energy AV Management

Possible Permutations
Device Management
Manage Device connectivity Remote Control of Devices

Energy Management (B & C)

Consumption Control of Equipment / HA Usage Display & Management

AV (Home Use Cases)

AV Memo AV Program Summary Remote Access to Audio & Visual IPTV Functions Visual Communication Secure Camera access Security Camera Prompts

Capabilities Home Monitoring through Sensor Networks Remote Management Intel Atom Processor with 11.25 OLED display Capacitance touchscreen Networks capabilities, Motion Sensors, Stereo Speaker Panasonic Singapore Labs - Network

R&D Theme Scope

Backgrounds of small scale EMCS Important input/output/parameters for EMCS EMCS suitable for Singapore, Thailand & Australia Possible and feasible control algorithms for EMCS for Home to Small Enterprise Using Academic Tile: Literature review/prior research on small scale energy management & control system (EMCS) Description: This EMCS is for home and small scale business, e.g. convenient store; office building (using split air-con) based on the integration system of existing Panasonics products, e.g., home/commercial air con, PV, Storage Battery.

Implementation of Control Algorithm Step 1 : Generic Control Algorithm for Energy Management with Visualization (User Budget) Step 2 : Time based Projection based on Thermal Capacity Estimation & Weather Data ( eg. 30 mins data for 10 Days )
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Appendix - 01

Optimization strategy and algorithm

Nonlinear Dynamic Optimization problem

The optimal supervisory control for Home Energy System with energy storage is extremely complex, affected by many factors including electrical and gas energy costs, electrical demand charges, maintenance costs associated with different devices (electric or gas), device characteristics, storage characteristics, weather condition, and load profile, etc. For a utility rate structure that includes time-of-use differentiated electricity prices and demand charges and the fixed cost of natural gas over each billing period (e.g., 10 days), the overall optimization problem of such systems is to minimize the utility cost over the billing period (e.g., 10 days)
Six steps of optimal control application in Home Energy System management

Selection of the supervisory control method

Selection or development of models

Selection of the optimization technique

Defining the cost or objective function

Programming of control logic and strategies

Testing and commissioning of the control program

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Classification of opt. techniques

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Summary of nonlinear optimization

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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Fig.1 Concept of modification of a searching point by PSO

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vk vk+1 sk

sk+1 vgbest vpbest

sk : current searching point. k+1: s modified searching point. vk: current velocity. vk+1: modified velocity. vpbest : velocity based on pbest. vgbest : velocity based on gbest

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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Flow chart depicting the General PSO Algorithm:
Start Initialize particles with random position and velocity vectors.
Loop until all particles exhaust

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For each particles position (p) evaluate fitness If fitness(p) better than fitness(pbest) then pbest= p
Loop until max iter

Set best of pBests as gBest

Update particles velocity (eq. 1) and position (eq. 3) Stop: giving gBest, optimal solution.
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Computation time & memory Est.

The total computation time is linear to the number of iteration runs:

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time of one run

number of runs

total time

e.g. 1 second per run and 500 runs to converge at the optimum/approximate optimum, the total computation time equals to 500 seconds.
The total memory requirement mainly depends on the swarm size:

Data length per particle

particle number in the swarm

total memory

2 bytes x 960 = 1.92 MB per particle and 200 particles swarm size, the total memory approximately equals to 384 MB.
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Background
Building & household sector consume large fraction of total energy usage.

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Of the Energy Usage, Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system consume a large fraction of total building energy usage.

Factors of environment & building characteristics greatly affects the installation & performance of building HVAC system.
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Appendix - 02

HEMS case study and ECO NAVI function of Panasonic AC

HEMS Overview

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Key functions of HEMS

auto-configuration: auto-configuration is the most important function for customers of home network services because many homes have a wrong configuration. easy monitoring: comfort and easy access to real-time information on energy consumption help the user pay attention to energy saving. remote controlling: online access to a customers usage pattern and device status enables appliances to be controlled remotely. smart planning: automatic peak load management provides smart planning for reducing energy consumption.
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Home network configuration

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Software structure

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Flowchart- based on PLC communication

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Function and supporting devices

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Impact factors
The home air con are optimized based on many factors:
1. The available air cons energy efficiency 2. Timetable: different rooms need to be cooled in different times of the day 3. The renewable energy available in the power grid /estimated renewable energy 4. Cooperation with other home appliance (ventilator, all heat exchanger, refrigerator) 5. Weather forecast 6. Sensors (outside temperature, inside temperature, draft from room to room, human activities, open doors/windows) 7. Power companys pricing policy and real time tariff

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