Multi Objective Differential Evolution Algorithm for Optimal Building Energy Management System

Globally, the increase in usage of primary energy in buildings is major concern. Buildings are considered as the second largest energy consumers in the world which accounts for about 40%. Hence it is important to reduce the building primary energy consumption for overall energy consumption reduction. Building energy management system is one of the best solutions for energy consumption reduction. Its aim is to reduce the consumption of energy without compromising the consumers comfort. In this study, a Multi-Objective Differential Evolution (MODE) optimization is proposed to reduce the building energy consumption as well as increase the consumer comfort. The energy consumption and consumer comfort are taken as two objectives in this work. The result inferred that, the MODE has appeared to be favorable in reducing consumption of energy and improve the consumer effort.