Table 2 Summary of literature survey on HEC and socio-inspired approach.

From: A peer-and self-group competitive behavior-based socio-inspired approach for household electricity conservation

References

Topic

Inputs

Outputs: Methodology/Results

6

Both Energy conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

Arduino and GSM to get the unit consumption of each house

Addressed manual energy billing mechanism issues and power shutdown

An automatic EB calculation system has been proposed

This study is lacking in providing the system on the consumer side to evaluate monthly EB and its optimization approach

31

Both Energy Conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

PV source

Multi-agent reinforcement learning

Energy bill

PV generation and load scheduling to reduce EB

32

Both Energy conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

Renewable sources

The load classical optimization method to develop the Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) algorithm

Energy bill

Adjusting the demand peaks and low computational time

 

Linear modeling approach was used

33

Both Energy conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

Energy audit

Energy audit-based approach is used to implement DSM

Survey

DSM aims to obtain minimal cost planning or integrated resource planning

 

DSM was validated using BPSO with constraints of peak-to-average ratio and cost reduction

 

MATLAB simulation tool is used

 

Due to large rating devices used in the industry, more profit was obtained for load DSM

34

Both Energy conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

In-house display information

To optimize the HEC using a feedback mechanism within the house display

The main challenge is if the feedback is noisy

35

Both Energy conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

Energy-storable and non-storable appliances are considered

Addressed the energy wastage issue

Integrated solar PV sources for EB optimization

36

Both Energy conservation and Energy Bill Analysis

SCADA

Proposed the appliance controlling algorithm for household EC and EB optimization based on dynamic energy pricing

Solar PV panels, Battery banks, hybrid vehicles

The study says that SCADA can balance the minimization of EB of users with adjusting peak load demand for utility and limiting carbon emissions

37

Energy conservation

QS for households

Variables used: construction features, energy usage, and users’ income level attributes

The old AC replacement has a 32% annual energy-saving potential

Around 14% of houses followed EE programs and adjusted the AC temperature above 26 °C

EE and EC programs should be revised based on requirements

38

Energy conservation

QS for households

Applied various techniques: descriptive statistics, machine learning, and regression analysis

The AC usage in households is mainly increased due to AC usage at the workplace, increased income, and maintained social status

39

Energy conservation

Real-time energy and resource management pricing signals

Discussed the DSM effectively utilizing demand-side resources and distribution infrastructure

Simulated work aims to maximize social welfare by developing an optimization model

The optimization model has been developed to decentralize work, further used to achieve social welfare

9

Cost optimization

Review

Cost optimization using the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is applied

Load data

The application of the proposed work can be helpful for load forecasting, scheduling, and management

40

Energy Bill Analysis

Energy consumption data

DSM framework, techniques, optimization models, and methods are discussed

Highlighted that the heuristic, stochastic optimization techniques and game theory are essential to deal with DSM for solving complex and dynamic energy load management problems

41

Energy Bill Analysis

Solar PV source

Case study based on 2BHK residential flat

Renewable distributed generation can be integrated into the conventional grid system to reduce the EB

Defined the objective cost function for EB optimization through a simulated linear programming approach

42

Load Profile classification

Load profile data

Worked on a systematic framework for load profile classification like human-readable and machine-readable

The data mining techniques like classification and regression trees are used to extract the features in the frequency domain

A hierarchical classification tree is a more effective and systematic method for load profile classification

43

Cost optimization in microgrid

Real data of non-dispatchable resources and non-responsive loads

Aims for optimum operation strategy of microgrid by cost optimization and demand response regulation

Implemented a multi-period imperialist competition algorithm with an expert heuristic approach

ANN and the Markov-chain method are applied to predict non-dispatchable power generation and load demand under uncertain conditions

44

Socio-inspired optimization

Group of families

This work highlighted that the social evolution and learning way is faster to influence behavioral change than the genetic evolution and learning method

The work has provided ground to explore the metaheuristic optimization approach to solve real-world, specific, and complex problems

45

Socio-inspired optimization

Group of families

Discussed Multi-Cohort Intelligence (CI) metaheuristic algorithm using intra-group and inter-group learning mechanisms

The prominent features and limitations of the Multi-CI algorithm have been discussed

The Multi-CI algorithm can be further used to solve real-world and constrained test problems

MATLAB tool is used for simulation

46

Socio-inspired optimization

Group of families

Proposed a socio-inspired optimization-based ideology algorithm

Proposed work applied self-interested, competitive behavior evolution and learning approaches in political applications to improve their rank

This work improved the optimization performance regarding objective function values and computational time

MATLAB tool is used for simulation