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Smart Home Design, 2nd Edition
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Smart Home Design, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Designs (ISSN 2411-9660). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy System Design".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1833

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Saher Javaid

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School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
Interests: smart home; home energy management system (HEMS); distributed energy resources; power flow control; power system stability and control; power flow coloring; demand response; energy on demand
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Dr. Yuto Lim

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School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
Interests: predictive control; network coding; evolutionary multi-objective optimization; game theory; smart energy distribution; smart homes; wireless communications; cyber-physical systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This is Series II of the Special Issue “Smart Home Design”.

A smart home is a place that is equipped with information technology and computing; it can accept as well as respond to the resident's requests. Its main purpose is to provide the resident with a comfortable and convenient life through the managing of various technologies at home. A smart home system supports the control of several different systems in a household (e.g., heating, air conditioning, security, lighting, and audio/video systems) and is labeled accordingly. As more and more home appliances and consumer electronics are deployed, the power consumption of the home (i) tends to increase and (ii) leads to an increase in the risk of a power blackout. As a result, an intelligent smart home energy management system, which is responsible for observing and handling the working operations of home appliances, is needed for smart homes. This Special Issue focuses on original research and literature reviews from different areas related to their system design, analysis, operation, simulation, and control of power. Manuscript submissions in the areas mentioned are highly encouraged.

Dr. Saher Javaid
Dr. Yuto Lim
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Designs is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • home networks
  • home energy management system (HEMS)
  • modeling, simulation, and optimization
  • power control
  • energy efficiency
  • energy storage
  • distributed energy resources
  • information appliances

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Incorporating a Load-Shifting Algorithm for Optimal Energy Storage Capacity Design in Smart Homes
by Ruengwit Khwanrit, Yuto Lim, Saher Javaid, Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut and Yasuo Tan
Designs 2024, 8(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs8010011 - 22 Jan 2024
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In today’s power system landscape, renewable energy (RE) resources play a pivotal role, particularly within the residential sector. Despite the significance of these resources, the intermittent nature of RE resources, influenced by variable weather conditions, poses challenges to their reliability as energy resources. [...] Read more.
In today’s power system landscape, renewable energy (RE) resources play a pivotal role, particularly within the residential sector. Despite the significance of these resources, the intermittent nature of RE resources, influenced by variable weather conditions, poses challenges to their reliability as energy resources. Addressing this challenge, the integration of an energy storage system (ESS) emerges as a viable solution, enabling the storage of surplus energy during peak-generation periods and subsequent release during shortages. One of the great challenges of ESSs is how to design ESSs efficiently. This paper focuses on a distributed power-flow system within a smart home environment, comprising uncontrollable power generators, uncontrollable loads, and multiple energy storage units. To address the challenge of minimizing energy loss in ESSs, this paper proposes a novel approach, called energy-efficient storage capacity with loss reduction (SCALE) scheme, that combines multiple-load power-flow assignment with a load-shifting algorithm to minimize energy loss and determine the optimal energy storage capacity. The optimization problem for optimal energy storage capacity is formalized using linear programming techniques. To validate the proposed scheme, real experimental data from a smart home environment during winter and summer seasons are employed. The results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed algorithm in significantly reducing energy loss, particularly under winter conditions, and determining optimal energy storage capacity, with reductions of up to 11.4% in energy loss and up to 62.1% in optimal energy storage capacity. Full article
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