Demand side management in private homes by using LonWorks

The paper presents a system to distribute power consumption in private homes uniformly over time as well as to reduce total power consumption to meet the interests of the energy producers. We present autonomous and intelligent domestic appliances that communicate with each other. Every electrical device is supported by a built-in LonWorks-Node that incorporates distributed algorithms. The main objectives are to provide logical relations between the devices, and to coordinate the energy consumption policy. All this happens in an autonomous, distributed way without any interaction with the user. The paper elaborates four different algorithms and indicates strategies to save energy in global dimensions.