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Energy consumption in the residential sector is 25% of all the sectors. The advent of smart appliances and intelligent sensors have increased the realization of home energy management systems. Acquiring balance between energy consumption and user comfort is in the spotlight when the performance of the smart home is evaluated. Appliances of heating, ventilation and air conditioning constitute up to 64% of energy consumption in residential buildings. A number of research works have shown that fuzzy logic system integrated with other techniques is used with the main objective of energy consumption minimization. However, user comfort is often sacrificed in these techniques. In this paper, we have proposed a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that uses humidity as an additional input parameter in order to maintain the thermostat set-points according to user comfort. Additionally, we have used indoor room temperature variation as a feedback to proposed FIS in order to get the better energy consumption. As the number of rules increase, the task of defining them in FIS becomes time consuming and eventually increases the chance of manual errors. We have also proposed the automatic rule base generation using the combinatorial method. The proposed techniques are evaluated using Mamdani FIS and Sugeno FIS. The proposed method provides a flexible and energy efficient decision-making system that maintains the user thermal comfort with the help of intelligent sensors. The proposed FIS system requires less memory and low processing power along with the use of sensors, making it possible to be used in the IoT operating system e.g., RIOT. Simulation results validate that the proposed technique reduces energy consumption by 28%.

Internet of things is providing us numerous ways to improve our quality of experience by using smart cyber-physical infrastructure systems. Also, due to arrival of LED lighting systems, there is the possibility to improve user's visual comfort at less cost. In our proposed model, by using a fuzzy inference system, used in cyber-physical infrastructure system, we save energy from the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. This saved energy is used to improve the visual comfort of the user. Simulation results show that considering the visual comfort standard of 500 lux instead of 250 lux results in energy savings and ensures visual comfort. Together with the preservation of thermal comfort increases the overall users' comfort. Since research confirms that users' improved comfort results in up to 14% of increased productivity. Our model is unique in the sense that using fuzzy logic, indirectly improved the users' productivity. By using our fuzzy logic controller on electric equipment, we can achieve improved users' performance without paying any extra cost.INDEX TERMS home energy management system, cyber-physical infrastructure system, visual comfort, thermal comfort, internet-of-things, energy savings, fuzzy logic controller

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