A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Smart Home Device Action Recommendation and Demand Response

Within smart homes, consumers could generate a vast amount of data that, if analyzed effectively, can improve the convenience of consumers and reduce energy consumption. In this paper, we propose to organize household appliance data into a knowledge graph by using the consumers’ usage habits, the pe...

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Main Authors: Wenzhi Chen, Hongjian Sun, Minglei You, Jing Jiang, Marco Rivera
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/4/833
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Hongjian Sun
Minglei You
Jing Jiang
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description Within smart homes, consumers could generate a vast amount of data that, if analyzed effectively, can improve the convenience of consumers and reduce energy consumption. In this paper, we propose to organize household appliance data into a knowledge graph by using the consumers’ usage habits, the periods of usage, and the location information for graph modeling. A framework, ‘DARK’ (Device Action Recommendation with Knowledge graphs), is proposed that includes three parts for enabling demand response. Firstly, a household device action recommendation algorithm is proposed that improves the knowledge graph attention algorithm to make accurate household appliance recommendations. Secondly, graph interpretable characteristics are developed in the DARK using trained graph embeddings. Finally, with the recommendation expectation, the consumers’ comfort level and appliances’ average power load are modeled as a multi-objective optimization problem in the DARK to participate in demand response. The results demonstrate that the proposed system can generate appliances’ action recommendations with an average of 93.4% accuracy and reduce power load by up to 20% while providing reasonable interpretations for the device action recommendation results on the customized UK-DALE dataset.
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spelling doaj-art-823d36a0ed994dabae092f4fb885a1c12025-08-20T03:12:11ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732025-02-0118483310.3390/en18040833A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Smart Home Device Action Recommendation and Demand ResponseWenzhi Chen0Hongjian Sun1Minglei You2Jing Jiang3Marco Rivera4The Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UKThe Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UKThe Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UKThe Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UKThe Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UKWithin smart homes, consumers could generate a vast amount of data that, if analyzed effectively, can improve the convenience of consumers and reduce energy consumption. In this paper, we propose to organize household appliance data into a knowledge graph by using the consumers’ usage habits, the periods of usage, and the location information for graph modeling. A framework, ‘DARK’ (Device Action Recommendation with Knowledge graphs), is proposed that includes three parts for enabling demand response. Firstly, a household device action recommendation algorithm is proposed that improves the knowledge graph attention algorithm to make accurate household appliance recommendations. Secondly, graph interpretable characteristics are developed in the DARK using trained graph embeddings. Finally, with the recommendation expectation, the consumers’ comfort level and appliances’ average power load are modeled as a multi-objective optimization problem in the DARK to participate in demand response. The results demonstrate that the proposed system can generate appliances’ action recommendations with an average of 93.4% accuracy and reduce power load by up to 20% while providing reasonable interpretations for the device action recommendation results on the customized UK-DALE dataset.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/4/833knowledge graphsmart homedemand responserecommendation system
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demand response
recommendation system
title A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Smart Home Device Action Recommendation and Demand Response
title_full A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Smart Home Device Action Recommendation and Demand Response
title_fullStr A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Smart Home Device Action Recommendation and Demand Response
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title_short A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Smart Home Device Action Recommendation and Demand Response
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smart home
demand response
recommendation system
url https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/4/833
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