SMACH: Agent-Based Simulation Investigation on Human Activities and Household Electrical Consumption

This paper proposes the SMACH multi-agent simulation framework that allows energy experts to run scenario-based experiments to investigate the link between residential electricity consumption and inhabitants behaviour. We first present the proposed meta-model and the associated simulator. We illustrate their use by specialist on concrete examples featuring classical household activities. We also put an emphasis on the systems adaptation mechanism that permits to outline emergent habits and other behavioural patterns.