Assessing Energy Strategies in Active Buildings considering Human Behaviour

Ayesha Kashif (1) , Stéphane Ploix (1) , Julie Dugdale (2)

1 G-SCOP_GCSP - Gestion et Conduite des Systèmes de Production
2 MAGMA - Modélisation d’agents autonomes en univers multi-agents

In the recent years, surveys and studies have established the importance of occupant's behaviour on energy consumption in buildings. Therefore, inclusion of in-habitants' behaviours is compulsory for the assessment of building energy management system's (BEMS) strategies, which highly depends on human behaviour. The purpose of modelling the inhabitants behaviour is to see how their choices and control of household appliances can impact the energy consumption. In this paper, a co-simulation approach is presented where the inhabitants' behaviours are co-simulated with the SIMBAD-MOZART thermal model of a reference house and BEMS. The realization of all the different kinds of inhabitant behaviours into energy co-simulations will help to improve the smart grid technology and hence provide inhabitants with better services to save energy and cost while maintaining their comfort levels.

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Ayesha Kashif, Stéphane Ploix, Julie Dugdale. Assessing Energy Strategies in Active Buildings considering Human Behaviour. International Symposium on Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems, Oct 2015, Pittsburgh, United States. ⟨hal-02091649⟩