Design and implementation of an intelligent home energy management system: A realistic autonomous hybrid system using energy storage

This paper seeks to develop a Smart Home prototype that improves electricity production without interruption to provide comfortable services for users. So, a realistic autonomous hybrid system including PV source with a fuel cell backup system is studied. The system comprises also energy storage devices for safe energy delivery and recovery. To perform the correct system operations and to meet load requirements, an efficient Real Time Embedded System, Energy Management (RT-ES-EM) is developed and discussed through various tasks of constraints using a new Multi-Agent-System (MAS). The proposed energy management system aims to define the functions of the agent and to perceive the source situations through the energy demand and the characteristics of the production costs. The results show that the proposed system meets the objectives set for the RT-ES-EM by referring to an experimental database extracted from the Tunisian Meteorological Services using the Matlab/Simulink environment. (C) 2018 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.