Home Energy Management System

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1 Home Energy Management System Integrating Energy Customers Preferences with Dynamic Pricing Cory Smith James Kimbrough Daniel Daneshka Advisor: Dr. Suryanarayanan ECE Department

2 $/kwh Advanced Power Engineering Lab Project Rationale For the future smart grid Utilities will adopt a dynamic price structure for residential customers Customers will pay more for electricity to maintain their way of life during peak hours ConED Time of Use Price Structure Time of Day Summer Winter 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 2

3 HEMS Provides automation of specific household tasks Criteria determined on Cost Comfort Convenience Ethical Concerns Data Privacy Critical Loads Energy management in SMA Smart Home. Photo sourced from SMA Corporate Blog 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 3

4 Capabilities of a HEMS A fully-developed HEMS will Consider user priorities Receive dynamic pricing from utility Receive data from the cloud (ex. weather) Use this data to schedule optimal run times for the consumer loads Send/receive signals to/from smart appliances 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 4

5 HEMS Design Structure 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 5

6 Why Smart Appliances Legacy appliance integration Explored Methodology Current interruption User input Issues Loss of settings Integration of new technology into existing appliances Advantages Smart devices Pre-existing user interruption signal Wireless communication Mechanical Timer. Photo sourced from alibaba.com LG Smart Appliances. Photo sourced from LG website 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 6

7 HEMS Design Structure 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 7

8 Priority Determination Analytic Network Process (ANP) Pairwise comparison between criteria Allows for inner dependencies Yields a normalized scale that can be used in the scheduler To be implemented using Python 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 8

9 Adapting ANP for Smart Homes 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 9

10 HEMS Design Structure 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 10

11 Scheduling VOLTTRON Distributed control software Easy to incorporate scheduling, automation and communication Developed by Pacific Northwest National Lab Open source software Will be installed in the Black Box Graphical Representation of VOLTTRON. Photo sourced from US Department of Energy 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 11

12 VOLTTRON Progress and Future Work Current Progress Linux Testbed Setup VOLTTRON Environment setup and unpacked properly Test agent being written Future Work Integrate ANP/AHP algorithm Setup physical communication protocol using smap and ModBus 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 12

13 HEMS Design Structure 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 13

14 Bridging HEMS and Appliances Zigbee 50 Node star or mesh network 2.4 GHz Modular and easy to add nodes Easily Integrated into LabVIEW Zigbee Mesh Network. Photo Sourced from oemblue.com 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 14

15 LabVIEW Used to simulate smart appliances Signals will be sent via XBee transceivers Test and Verification Will have a visual screen for verification Two-way communication Example of LabVIEW Environment. Photo Sourced from National Instruments (ni.com) 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 15

16 LabVIEW and XBee Progress and Future Work Advanced Power Engineering Lab Current Progress XBees communicate correctly myrio operates as expected Resolving myrio/xbee data transmission Future Work Determine data transfer protocol Integrate wireless transceivers with VOLTTRON Build VI for smart device simulation 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 16

17 End Goal HEMS will Take preference data Give accurate weights according to ANP / AHP Schedule tasks according to preferences and dynamic pricing Communicate the schedule wirelessly to turn on devices Simulate the appliance operation with LabVIEW 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 17

18 HEMS Project Architecture XBee Transceivers with Sparkfun Explorers VI displayed on Laptop LabVIEW Appliance Simulator on myrio VOLTTRON on PandaBoard User Input On Device 10/23/2015 Home Energy Management Systems 18

19 Available Budget Used Extra Budget: $300 (Requested Funding) Colorado State University Funding: $600 Presentation / Misc. Costs: $175 Panda Board: $200 Xbee Transceivers: $90 myrio: $335 Planned Purchased 12/9/2015 Home Energy Management System 19