Sharif University of Technology Scientia Iranica 1026-3098 29 6 2022 12 01 Multi-class appliance scheduling for cost-effective energy management with constraint and user preferences 3257 3272 22122 10.24200/sci.2021.54570.3812 EN M. F. Ali Khan Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India P. V. Chandramani Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India Journal Article 2019 10 03 For decades, the electrical power grid worldwide has transformed from traditional to the smart power grid, focusing on its transparency to both utility and consumer. The energy management systems play a substantial part in demand response within the smart power grid umbrella, enabling demand-side management at the residential level. These systems generate the consumption profile of appliances and reduce the burden on end-user in scheduling appliances operations. With these consumption profiles of past usage, there is a possibility to generate a time window containing user preferable time slots for appliance operation for the next day. Using this time window, one can generate a cost-effective schedule-pattern autonomously. In this regard, this article proposes a home energy-demand management scheme consisting of a time window generator and a schedule-pattern generator to generate a cost-effectively comfortable schedule-pattern with demand threshold constraint. Multi-class appliances home enabled with a net-meter demonstrate the proposed approach's effectiveness. The simulation results showcase that the proposed approach helps the user to save electricity bills with constraint preserving comfort. https://scientiairanica.sharif.edu/article_22122_e2c66bb05505f706039b7d9ffe9f79c7.pdf