BEMSimulator

Within project ACCUS we developed a smart house simulator application. This application allows simple definition, simulation and exploration of behavior of a group of domestic appliances through a graphical user interface. Simulator is an application developed for .NET framework.

Compared with generic tools for linear models design and optimization, this single-purpose tool has several advantages. Once a model is supposed to be simulated in a Model Predictive Control mode through a finite horizon, it must be reformulated within each time slot to fulfill some specific MPC demands. Moreover, during a simulation, user may want to change some parameters manually. Reaching such a behavior with generic tools would be difficult and clumsy.

This tool has simple user interface, which allows modelling of domestic appliances, setting all smart home parameters, performing simulation, and examining its results. Nevertheless, the tool is only a front-end for ILOG CPLEX Optimizer engine.

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Brno University of Technology
Central European Institute of Technology
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