Demand Response in a Residential Building using Multi Agent Control System

This paper proposes a multi agent system (MAS) based demand response implementation for a residential building. The main objective of the proposed system is to facilitate the customers to take part in supply demand management through the demand response. For this, the system offers demand response in two ways such as connecting/disconnecting the loads from power outlets and controlling the characteristics of infrared radiation (IR) controlled loads. Three hardware modules are designed for power consumption monitoring, room temperature monitoring, on/off switch controlling, and IR load controlling. A multi agent-based control system is proposed and developed to control the loads and a sniffer agent output is shown to demonstrate the commands within the system.