Intelligent Power Control and User Comfort Management in Buildings Using Bacterial Foraging Algorithm

One of the major challenges in smart buildings is the task of minimizing the power consumption and simultaneously maximizing the occupants’ comfort. Multi-agent control system with intelligent optimization that optimize heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) environmental parameters based on Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) is presented in this paper. Fuzzy logic controllers were used to compute the...