Abstract
In apartment buildings (APBs), occupants are members of APB communities and live together. Occupants use individual spaces and share common facilities in the APBs. The power demand of APB is more complex than single-dwelling houses. However, a conventional management system has focused on a single residential space or a single building, which cannot consider a complex relationship built by the APB community. Therefore, based on an agent-based model, a unified home energy management system (U-HEMS) using various reward systems for the residential community is proposed to manage the power demand of the APB by considering individual satisfaction and fairness of the residential community. To assess the performances of U-HEMS using various reward systems, 100-dwelling APB was prepared for four cases: no, two-step, linear, and complex rewards. The results suggest that the household satisfaction and fairness of the residential community can be improved by the proposed reward systems integrated into U-HEMS. Based on the results, findings reveal that the reward system of the U-HEMS mediates the individual household demands in the APB community to improve overall household comfort.
