Improved Appliance Coordination Scheme with Waiting Time in Smart Grids

Smart grids aim to merge the advances in communications and information technologies with traditional power grids. In smart grids, users can generate energy and sell it to the local utility supplier. The users can reduce energy consumption by shifting appliances’ start time to off-peak hours. Many researchers have proposed techniques to reduce the previous issue for home appliances, such as the Appliances Coordination (ACORD) scheme and Appliances Coordination with Feed In (ACORD-FI) scheme. The goal of this work is to introduce an efficient scheme to reduce the total cost of energy bills by utilizing the ACORD-FI scheme to obtain an effective solution. In this work three scheduling schemes are proposed: the Appliances Coordination by Giving Waiting Time (ACORD-WT), the Appliances Coordination by Giving Priority (ACORD-P), and using photovoltaic (PV) with priority and waiting time scheduling algorithms. A simulator written in C++ is used to test the performance of the proposed schemes using. The performance metric used is the total savings in the cost of the energy bill in dollars. The first comparison for the proposed schemes with the ACORD-FI, and the results show that the efficiency of the proposed ACORD-WT is better than the ACORD-FI, regardless of the number of appliances. Moreover, the proposed ACORD-P, is also better than the standard ACORD-FI.

@article{Balas2016,
  title     = {Improved Appliance Coordination Scheme with Waiting Time in Smart Grids},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {7},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {2016},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Firas A. Al Balas and Wail Mardini and Yaser Khamayseh and Dua’a Ah.K.Bani-Salameh},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070403},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070403}
}