Effect of Smart Homes in Management and Reduction of Electrical Energy Consumption

Today, smart grids are one of the important topics in the field of electrical engineering. In this paper, after identifying the communication layers among the components of a smart home in the introduction, some of the most important communication protocols ruling will be abbreviately discussed over the smart homes. Then, applying the household electrical load management program by smart homes, the effectiveness of this method will be showed in reforming power consumption, especially during peak hours. To clarify this issue, a house with a certain number of electric vehicles is studied in three different modes and the black-out effect of the load has been also considered in one of these three modes. Therefore, the results will be discussed using the accurate modeling of the problem regarding household electrical load management and performing simulations via GAMS software, and consequently the effects of considering different electricity tariffs on the proposed method results will be also analyzed.