Volume 37, Issue 6 e12521
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Distributed artificial bee colony approach for connected appliances in smart home energy management system

Khac-Hoai N. Bui

Khac-Hoai N. Bui

Center for Supercomputing Applications, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea

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Israel E. Agbehadji

Israel E. Agbehadji

Department of Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

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Richard Millham

Richard Millham

Department of Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

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David Camacho

David Camacho

Information Systems Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Jason J. Jung

Corresponding Author

Jason J. Jung

Department of Computer Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

Correspondence

Jason J. Jung, Department of Computer Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.

Email: [email protected]

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First published: 03 January 2020
Citations: 21

Funding information: Chung-Ang University, Grant/Award Number: 2018; National Research Foundation of Korea, Grant/Award Number: 2018K1A3A1A09078981

Abstract

In this study, we propose a computational intelligence model for the Internet of Things applications by applying the concept of swarm intelligence (SI) into connected devices. Particularly, decentralized management of smart home energy management system (HEMS) is taken into account in which connected appliances, by sharing information with each other, make the individual decisions for optimizing electricity prices of smart HEMS. Specifically, the study includes two main issues: (a) We propose a framework for decentralized management in smart HEMS; and (b) artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, a typical algorithm of SI techniques, has been applied for connected appliances in terms of communication and collaboration with each other to optimize the performance of the energy management system. Moreover, regarding the implementation, we develop and simulate a connected environment of smart home systems to evaluate the proposed approach. The simulation indicates the promising results in terms of optimizing the load balancing problem comparing with the conventional approach of the decentralized management system in smart home applications.

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