Although Demand Response (DR) program has potentially
several advantages it is currently faced with challenges in
its implementation due to the customers’ considerations in
responding to the time-varying price and signals. The
suggested solution to overcome these obstacles is
developing an automatic program for management and
scheduling of home appliances in order to minimize the
resident operation costs. In this paper an automatic and
optimized program has been proposed for management of
energy consumption in smart homes based on DR
implementation. The smart home includes the smart
appliances as well as Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
(PHEV). The proposed methodology is based on the time of
use tariff and inclining block rates. The proposed DR
program is applied to several different scenarios and the
results are evaluated.