Building Energy Management Systems and Techniques

Building Energy Management Systems and Techniques: Principles, Methods, and Modelling presents the basic concepts, methodologies, modelling techniques, and fundamental design schemes of building energy management systems. Covering the latest developments and methodologies from academia and industry, the book brings together energy management, demand response, evolutionary computation, and fundamental programming. The authors explore all the basic concepts related to building energy management systems and put them into the context of smart grids, demand response and demand side management, internet of things, and distributed renewable energy. Advanced topics provide the reader with an understanding of various energy management scenarios and procedures for modern buildings in an automatic and highly renewable-penetrated building environment. This includes a range of energy management techniques for building-side energy resources such as battery energy storage systems, plug-in appliances, and HVAC systems. The fundamental principles of evolutionary computation are covered and applied to building energy management problems. The authors also introduce the paradigm of occupant-to-grid integration and its implementation through personalized recommendation technology to guide the occupants’ choices on energy-related products and their energy usage behaviors, as well as to enhance the energy efficiency of buildings. Finally, the book includes extensive application examples throughout, illustrating for the reader how to design and implement building energy management schemes. Building Energy Management Systems and Techniques: Principles, Methods, and Modelling is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in civil, electrical, and energy engineering, researchers working in the fields of smart grid, smart buildings/homes, and energy demand response, and will be of use to professional electrical, civil, computing, and communications engineers, architects, and building energy consultants. Integrates the latest techniques in the building energy management paradigm, such as appliance scheduling, peer-to-peer energy trading, and occupant-to-grid integration Provides extensive application examples to help readers understand the design principles of different building energy management systems Includes step-by-step guidance on the methods, modelling techniques, and applications discussed in the book, including evolutionary computation, and provides pseudocodes and optimization algorithms to help readers understand and practice their application in building energy management