Internet of Things-enabled multiagent system for residential DC microgrids

This paper proposes an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled multiagent system (MAS) for residential DC microgrids (RDCMG). The proposed MAS consisting of smart home agents (SHAs) aims to cooperate each other to alleviate the peak load of the RDCMG and to minimize the electricity costs for smart homes. These are achieved by agent utility functions and the best operating time algorithm (BOT) in the MAS. Moreover, IoT-based efficient and cost-effective agent communication method is proposed, which applies message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) publish/subscribe protocol via MQTT brokers. The proposed IoT-enabled MAS and smart home models are implemented in five Raspberry pi 3 boards and validated by experimental studies for a RDCMG with five smart homes.