Demand side management for smart homes in Pakistan

Demand side management (DSM) based on demand response (DR) has emerged as an effective method for energy management in a power system focusing consumer side. It enables consumers to participate in energy management through changing their energy usage pattern. DSM at home is implemented making use of an infrastructure called home energy management system (HEMS). Energy management controller/ Scheduler is a vital component of HEMS that carries all the computational intelligence required to compute optimized schedules for home appliance and local distributed energy resources. A comprehensive method to model energy management problem for the design of energy management controller/scheduler is elaborated. A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based optimization scheduler has been proposed. Application of scheduler to a smart home in Pakistan has been simulated. Time of use and real time pricing schemes have been incorporated in the model.