Informatics Institute faculty member Hamza Salih Erden coauthored paper titled 'A home energy management system with an integrated smart thermostat for demand response in smart grids' has been published in 'Sustainable Cities and Society'.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102639

Abstract:
Smart thermostats and home energy management systems (HEMSs) are generally studied separately. However, their joint use can provide a greater benefit. Therefore, this study primarily aims to combine a smart thermostat with a HEMS. The mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based HEMS performs day-ahead load scheduling for cost-minimization and provides optimal demand response (DR) and photovoltaic (PV) self-consumption, and the fuzzy logic-based thermostat aims efficient DR of air-conditioning and maintenance of thermal comfort. In the first stage, unlike conventional fixed set-point thermostats, the proposed thermostat defines different set-points for each time interval, by fuzzifying input parameters of electricity prices, solar radiation, and occupant presence, to be used by HEMS. In the second stage, the HEMS schedules the operation of time-shiftable, thermostatically controlled, and power-shiftable (battery energy storage system (BESS), electric vehicle (EV)) loads. The HEMS considers bi-directional power flow between home, BESS, EV, and grid, as well as battery degradation to avoid unnecessary energy arbitrage. The simulation results show that a daily cost reduction of 53.2 % is achieved under time-of-use (TOU) and feed-in tariff rates of Turkey. AC cost is reduced by 24 % compared to conventional thermostats. In a future scenario of real-time pricing (RTP) and dynamic feed-in tariff, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) becomes possible.
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  • List of Most Influential Scientists; Associate Professor. B. Uğur Töreyin (article by Dr. John PA Ioannidis, K. W. Boyack and J. Baas published in the journal PLOS Biology)
  • Beltus Nkwawir Wiysobunri, the best project award in the Science category, in the 2020 International Students Project Competition
  • Argenit company, of which Dr. Abdulkerim Çapar is among the founding partners, received the "National-International Supports" First Prize of ITU ARI Teknokent.
  • TÜBİTAK 2242 University Students Project Competition in Priority Areas: Istanbul region first place - Ahmet Burak Özyurt
  • Best Presentation Award at ICAT'18 Conference: Sena Efsun Cebeci, 2018
  • Tubitak Incentive Award; 2016 Assoc. Prof. Adem Tekin
  • “Technical Paper” and “Willis H. Carrier” Award by the American Heating, Cooling and Air Conditioning Association; 2016 Assist. Prof. Dr. H. Salih Erden
  • Science Heroes Association Young Scientist of the Year Award; 2016 Assoc. B. Uğur Töreyin Best Poster Award at PRACEdays 2016 conference; Samet Demir
  • ITU Most Successful Thesis Award; 2016 Hatice Gokcan

There is also a High Performance Computing Laboratory established with the support of the State Planning Organization within the Institute.