An Adaptive Multi-objective Salp Swarm Algorithm for Efficient Demand Side Management

With the continuous growth in population and energy demands more attention has been paid to energy consumption issues in residential environments. At the user-end, the home energy management system (HEMS) has been proposed as a cost-effective solution to reduce the electricity cost in households, while maintaining users’ comfort and reducing the pressure on energy providers. However, it is a challenge to design a cost-effective scheduling strategies for HEMS which takes many objectives into consideration while potentially benefiting both users and providers. In our work, we propose a new approach named adaptive multi-objective salp swarm algorithm (AMSSA) based on traditional multi-objective salp swarm algorithm (MSSA) to realise a multi-objective optimisation approach for the power scheduling problem. AMSSA not only fulfils the trade-off among users’ comfort, electricity cost and peak to average ratio (PAR), but also enhances the convergence speed for the overall optimisation process. Moreover, we also set up a testbed by using smart appliances and implemented our design on an edge-based energy management system. The experiment results demonstrated a reduction in both electricity cost (47.55%) and PAR (45.73%), compared with the case without a scheduling scheme.