Hardware Demonstration of Home Energy Management System for Demand Response Applications Using ZIGBEE

Todays energy consumption and transmission are major factors in efficient utilization. A Home Energy Management (HEM) system plays acrucial role in realizing residential Demand Response (DR) programs in the smart grid environment. It provides a homeownerthe ability to automatically perform smart load controls based on utility signals, customers preference and load priority. This paperpresents the hardware demonstration of the proposed HEM system for managing end-use appliances. The HEMs communication time delay to perform load control is analyzed, along with its residual energy consumption.