The focus of this book is smart energy management with the recurring theme being the use of computational and data-driven methods that use requirements/measurement/monitoring data to drive actuation/control, optimization, and resource management. The computational perspective is applied to manage energy, with an emphasis on smart buildings and the smart electric grids.The book also presents computational thinking and techniques such as inferencing and learning for energy management. To this end, this book is designed to help understand the recent research trends in energy management, focusing specifically on the efforts to increase energy efficiency of buildings, campuses, and cities.
Contents:
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Preface
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Introduction
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Smart Electric Grid: Applications and Data Analysis
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Energy Management Systems for Modern Buildings
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A Systematic Approach to Thermal Comfort
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Customized Thermal Comfort
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Solar Energy in Buildings
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Making the Best of Available Energy
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Appendices:
- Electrical Energy: Some Basic Concepts
- Short Introduction to Power System Stability
- Thermodynamic Principles and RC-Modeling of Buildings
- Excerpts from IEC Standard 7730 for Calculation of PMV
- More on Grid Applications and Data Dissemination
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Authors
Readership: Graduate students, researchers and practitioners interested in an overview of recent advances in energy management systems.
Key Features:
- Focuses on 'smart' techniques of energy management, which touches everyday life
- Provides substantial background information, theoretical foundations of the techniques developed, followed by its real-world applications
- Presents many case studies demonstrating how computational techniques can be used in managing energy efficiently
- Covers a wide range of application areas, including smart grid, smart home, thermal comfort and solar energy in buildings
- Discusses a smarter way to allocate power without resorting to blackouts when supply falls short of demand
- Includes a discussion of many topics that either need additional research efforts before being assimilated into practice, or need a fresh look, thus providing an impetus for further investigations in the important area of smart buildings
- Aims to inspire a wide range of readers from different domains of engineering by offering the basic concepts as well as additional materials on the relevant topics as Appendices
