%0 Book Section
%A Agnetis, Alessandro
%A Dellino, Gabriella
%A Detti, Paolo
%A De Pascale, Gianluca
%A Innocenti, Giacomo
%A Vicino, Antonio
%B Proceeding of the Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC)
%D 2011
%F eprints:766
%I IEEE
%K Air conditioning, Batteries, Electricity, Home appliances, Optimization, Power demand, Schedules 
%P 5899-5904
%T Appliance operation scheduling for electricity consumption optimization
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/766/
%X This paper concerns the problem of optimally scheduling a set of appliances at the end-user premises. The user's energy fee varies over time, and moreover, in the context of smart grids, the user may receive a reward from an energy aggregator if he/she reduces consumption during certain time intervals. In a household, the problem is to decide when to schedule the operation of the appliances, in order to meet a number of goals, namely overall costs, climatic comfort level and timeliness. We devise a model accounting for a typical household user, and present computational results showing that it can be efficiently solved in real-life instances.
%Z 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and  European Control Conference (CDC-ECC)  Orlando, FL, USA, December 12-15, 2011