An Improved Optimization Function to Integrate the User’s Comfort Perception into a Smart Home Controller Based on Particle Swarm Optimization and Fuzzy Logic

Scheduling residential loads for financial savings and user comfort may be performed by smart home controllers (SHCs). For this purpose, the electricity utility’s tariff variation costs, the lowest tariff cost schedules, the user’s preferences, and the level of comfort that each load may add to the...

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Main Authors: Jonatha Rodrigues da Costa, Giovanni Cordeiro Barroso, Darielson Araújo de Souza, Josias Guimarães Batista, Antonio Barbosa de Souza Junior, Clauson Sales do Nascimento Rios, Felipe José de Sousa Vasconcelos, José Nogueira do Nascimento Júnior, Ismael de Souza Bezerra, Alanio Ferreira de Lima, Killdary Aguiar de Santana, José Raimundo de Oliveira Júnior
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/6/3021