Energy efficient automation model for office buildings based on ontology, agents and IEC 61499 function blocks

Mousavi, Arash Kheyraddini; Yang, Cheng‐Wei; Pang, Cheng; Vyatkin, Valeriy

doi:10.1109/etfa.2014.7005081

Cited by 7 publications

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“…MAS provides a flexible and reliable solution to manage and optimal loads at demand-side with the consideration of energy cost minimization and user's comfort maximizations [49,50]. MAS has been applied in automated building management systems (BMS) for energy-related building research [16,[51][52][53].…”

Section: Mas For Demand-side and Building Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Application of Ontologies in Multi-Agent Systems in the Energy Sector: A Scoping Review

Schultz

Christensen

et al. 2019

Energies

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Multi-agent systems are well-known for their expressiveness to explore interactions and knowledge representation in complex systems. Multi-agent systems have been applied in the energy domain since the 1990s. As more applications of multi-agent systems in the energy domain for advanced functions, the interoperability raises challenge raises to an increasing requirement for data and information exchange between systems. Therefore, the application of ontology in multi-agent systems needs to be emphasized and a systematic approach for the application needs to be developed. This study aims to investigate literature on the application of ontology in multi-agent systems within the energy domain and map the key concepts underpinning these research areas. A scoping review of the existing literature on ontology for multi-agent systems in the energy domain is conducted. This paper presents an overview of the application of multi-agent systems (MAS) and ontologies in the energy domain with five aspects of the definition of agent and MAS; MAS applied in the energy domain, defined ontologies in the energy domain, MAS design methodology, and architectures, and the application of ontology in the MAS development. Furthermore, this paper provides a recommendation list for the ontology-driven multi-agent system development with the aspects of 1) ontology development process in MAS design, 2) detail design process and realization of ontology-driven MAS development, 3) open standard implementation and adoption, 4) inter-domain MAS development, and 5) agent listing approach.

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Section: Mas For Demand-side and Building Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, the study by Mousavi et al [53] includes the unpredictable nature of the business process in an office building in a simple model with only a few devices to control. This study does not include a response to the grid conditions.…”

Section: Mas For Demand-side and Building Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Application of Ontologies in Multi-Agent Systems in the Energy Sector: A Scoping Review

Schultz

Christensen

et al. 2019

Energies

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“…BMS (building management system) and BACS (building automation and control system) are used to control, monitor and optimize building technologies (e.g. lighting, heating, security and ventilation) [3,11,18,24,52]. BMS and BACS improve energy efficiency [53] and security [8], and lower energy consumption [53,54].…”

Section: Hypothesis 32-building Owners With Bms and Bacs Are More Wimentioning

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“…Business operations or processes are important for office building managers/owners [24]. Building owners are willing to embrace energy efficiency but unwilling to invest on high cost energy related technologies due to return-on-investment speed [12,25].…”

Section: Hypothesis 13-building Owners/managers Are More Willing To mentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Central Energy Flexibility in Office Buildings

Billanes¹,

Ma²,

Jôrgensen³

2017

JEPE

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Energy flexibility in buildings will play an important role in the smart energy system. Office buildings have more potentials to provide energy flexibility to the grid compared to other types of buildings, due to the existing building management, control systems and large energy consumption. Consumers in office buildings (building owners/managers and occupants) take a main role for adopting and engaging in building energy flexibility. This paper provides a systematic review of consumer central energy flexibility in office buildings with the discussion of social, technical and business aspects. This paper clarifies the correlations of consumers" concerns, external influential factors, energy flexibility resources and technology with eight hypotheses. This paper suggests that technical solutions with the integration of distributed energy resources, building management and control system can boost energy flexibility in the office buildings.

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“…-Energy-efficiency and the use of ontological agents (Mousavi et al, 2014). -Smart agents in cyber-physical building control (Leitao et al, 2016).…”

Section: Real-world System Implementation Using Iec 61499mentioning

confidence: 99%