Energy management by controlling air conditioning systems in residential settings

This paper demonstrates some results from an on-going experiment on energy management in a residential testbed in Singapore by controlling the air-conditioning (AC) system. The testbed is set up at the faculty housing of Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in which the ACs installed within each unit can be controlled from a remote server. The control can be conducted both in terms of switching on/off and changing the temperature...