Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Coordinating occupant behavior for building energy and comfort management using multi-agent systems

for multi-agentcom- fort and energy system (MACES) to alternative management and of systems and occupants. upon previous multi-agent systems as it both building system devices and building occupants through direct changes to occupant meeting schedules using multi-objective Markov Decision Problems (MDP). is implemented and tested with input from a real-world building in- cluding actual thermal zones, temperatures, occupant preferences, and occupant schedules. The operations of this building are then simulated according to three distinct control strategies involving varying levels of intelli- gent coordination of devices and occupants. Finally, the energy and comfort results of these three strategies are compared to the baseline and opportunities for further energy savings are assessed. A 12% reduction in energy consumption and a 5% improvement in occupant comfort are realized as compared to the baseline control. Speci fi cally, by employing MDP meeting relocating, an additional 5% improvement in energy consumption is real- ized over other control strategies.