Another paper that will be presented at i-sup 2010 by one of my colleages at VITO is about applying market-based coordination to domestic applicances. Controlling devices in the household domain brings a number of challenges such as responsiveness to users and access to the control process of the appliance. In the paper we show how we deal with these issues. We also discuss an experiment in which a fridge, a washing machine, a dishwasher and a MicroCHP coordinate their activities to reduce peak load and optimize the reuse of electricity produced by the MicroCHP.
Tags: coordination · homelab · markets · PowerMatcher
