Modelling Office Energy Consumption: An Agent Based Approach
This work addresses energy consumption issues for office building managers, but it is incremental as it applies an existing agent-based approach to a specific domain.
The authors tackled the problem of simulating office building energy consumption by developing an agent-based model that integrates organizational policies, technologies, appliances, and human behavior, and used it to test energy management strategies and solve practical problems.
In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, based on a case study, to simulate the energy consumption in office buildings. With the model, we test the effectiveness of different energy management strategies, and solve practical office energy consumption problems. This paper theoretically contributes to an integration of four elements involved in the complex organisational issue of office energy consumption, and practically contributes to an application of agent-based approach for office building energy consumption study.