Intelligent Systems for Energy Management in Wireless Sensor-Based Smart Environments

The purpose of this chapter is to explore and address the issues that are applicable to Smart Environments by encouraging and providing new insights towards the “Sustainable Green Computing” initiatives for “energy aware” applicable solutions. The topics covered in this chapter provide an introduction to future wireless sensor-based smart environments for energy management systems. Introduction to the topic, motivation, and objective are covered in Section 1. A review of the state-of-the-art technological achievements, theory, and applications, related to the energy management systems (wireless sensors and intelligent systems) are covered in Section 2. Whilst, Section 3 covers in detail the authors’ proposed methodological approach and main ideas leading towards the “Intelligent Systems for Energy Management in Wireless Sensor-Based Smart Environments.” Case studies of real-world applications, following the principles of “Green Computing” in intelligent systems are introduced. The authors present the simulation results of an “energy conservation perspective” in smart homes, demonstrating the potential improvements with respect to energy conservation. Moreover, they present examples of large Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) simulations (impact of topology control in network survivability) and hybrid intelligent techniques for energy efficient solutions, i.e. finding optimal solution in a predefined interval. The conclusions and future research directions are provided in Sections 4 and 5, respectively.