Randomized Load Control: A Simple Distributed Approach for Scheduling Smart Appliances
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 2915-2921.
Abstract
A significant portion of the electricity network capacity is built to run only a few days a year when demand peaks. As a result, expensive power generation plants and equipment costing millions of dollars are sitting idle most of the time, which increases costs for everyone. We present randomized load control, a simple distributed approach for scheduling smart appliances. Randomized load control schedules the start time of appliances that are programmed to run within a specified time window, so that the aggregate load achieves a given ideal load. Our results show that we do achieve the given ideal load to a great extent. This is remarkable as the approach is completely distributed and preserves customer privacy as the scheduling happens within each house or building separately.
@inproceedings{ijcai2013p428,
title = {Randomized Load Control: A Simple Distributed Approach for Scheduling Smart Appliances},
author = {van den Briel, Menkes and Scott, Paul and Thiébaux, Sylvie},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-13}},
publisher = {AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Francesca Rossi},
pages = {2915--2921},
year = {2013},
month = {8},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/428},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Randomized Load Control: A Simple Distributed Approach for Scheduling Smart Appliances AU - van den Briel, Menkes AU - Scott, Paul AU - Thiébaux, Sylvie T2 - Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-13 PB - AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 2013 SP - 2915 EP - 2921 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/428 ER -Copied
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