Demand-Driven Power Saving by Multiagent Negotiation for HVAC Control

Abstract

Buildings account for roughly 40% of all U.S. energy use, and HVAC systems are a major culprit. The goal of this research is to reduce power consumption without sacrificing human comfort. This paper presents a cooling demand estimation from heat generation to assess the quantity of cooling supply, which helps diagnose potential problems in the HVAC system. A negotiation-based approach is proposed to balance power consumption, cooling for human comfort, and smooth operation for equipment health. Experiments were conducted with the NTU CSIE July 2012 dataset [6] as well as online live experiments in the computer science building on campus. The experiments demonstrated that the proposed method reduced 3.81% to 5.96% of power consumption with consideration of smoothness.

Cite

Text

Tsao and Hsu. "Demand-Driven Power Saving by Multiagent Negotiation for HVAC Control." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013. doi:10.1145/2516911.2516918

Markdown

[Tsao and Hsu. "Demand-Driven Power Saving by Multiagent Negotiation for HVAC Control." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2013/tsao2013ijcai-demand/) doi:10.1145/2516911.2516918

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tsao2013ijcai-demand,
  title     = {{Demand-Driven Power Saving by Multiagent Negotiation for HVAC Control}},
  author    = {Tsao, Yi-Ting and Hsu, Jane Yung-jen},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2013},
  pages     = {9-14},
  doi       = {10.1145/2516911.2516918},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2013/tsao2013ijcai-demand/}
}