Abstract
Outcomes of exhaustion of natural resources started influencing each spirit on this planet. Energy is an essential factor in this aspect. To restore the circumstance to the appropriate track, all attempts must focus on two fundamental branches: producing electricity from clean and renewable reserves and decreasing the overall unnecessary consumption of energy. The focal point of this paper will be on lessen the power consumption in the household's segment. This paper is an attempt to give a clear understanding of a framework called Reduction of Energy Consumption in Household Sector (RECHS) and how it should help householders to reduce their power consumption by substituting their household appliances, turning-off the appliances when stand-by modus is detected, and scheduling their appliances operation periods. Technically, the framework depends on utilizing Z-Wave compatible plug-ins which will be connected to the usual house devices to gauge and control them remotely and semi-automatically. The suggested framework underpins numerous quality characteristics, for example, integrability, scalability, security and adaptability.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 28 Aug 2020 |
| Event | ICSEMEE 2020: XIV. International Conference on Smart Energy Management and Energy Efficiency - Paris - France Duration: 27 Aug 2020 → 28 Aug 2020 |
Conference
| Conference | ICSEMEE 2020: XIV. International Conference on Smart Energy Management and Energy Efficiency |
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| Period | 27/08/20 → 28/08/20 |
Bibliographical note
Note: An abstract of this paper was published in: (2020) World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Vol: 14, No: 8.Impact: The uncontrolled and exponentially increase in consuming energy is the key cause of the severe damage done to the environment in the latest decades. Reducing the consumed energy levels is not a choice anymore, rather a mandatory undertaking. This goal can be achieved by following two main paths: 1) Reduce the consumed energy, or 2) Utilize clean resources to produce the required energy. This research considers proposing a framework to reduce the consumed energy in the household which can be applied in single or multiple units.
The proposed framework relies on using the smart home techniques based on Z-Wave protocol to measure the consumed energy for some selected household devices and make suggestions to cut-off the consumed energy by applying several techniques: 1) switching-off the electricity while running in a standby mode. 2) make recommendations to substitute the used household devices by other ones with better energy consumptions labels (Example replace a refrigerator labelled A with another one same size labelled A+++). 3) Offering a possibility to schedule the running periods of devices, so they can be shut down when not in use, for example switching off the immersion heater while not used at night.
The proposed framework can be applied to any building where household devices are used. This includes houses, universities, organisations, companies, hospitals, …etc. The precondition to use it is having central processing unite to run the application and the database. This central unit can be a PC, laptop, network-attached storage (NAS). With utilizing this framework, household occupants, or organizations building administrators can achieve up to 30% of energy saving. It is not a secret that there must be an initial investment to substitute the old devices with better ones, but the return of investment (ROI) will be achieved within few years depends on the chosen option. Moreover, the ROI period may be shortened if the old device is sold as well to be used as spare parts purposes.
My first supervisor Prof Dr Souheil Khaddaj, my family; my wife and both kids: Nour and Jawad, and I were involved in this research. My supervisor accompanied my research from square zero, providing me with valuable ideas and critic during several brainstorming sessions. Since the framework has been implemented in my household, my wife and both kids helped to install the system‘s hardware components and using the system to produce necessary feedback and trial sessions.
My name is Ahmed Al-Adaileh, I am a third-year PhD student in Science, Engineering & Computing Faculty in Kingston University - London, Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE, United Kingdom (phone: +44 (0)20 8417 9000; e-mail: [email protected])
Organising Body: World Academy of Science, Technology and Engineering
Keywords
- Computer science and informatics