KUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) announced on Monday the completion of a research project entitled ‘Development of a home energy management system based on active control’ - using artificial intelligence and machine learning to find innovative solutions and consolidate a steady step in the path of sustainability.

The head of the project from the Energy and Construction Research Center, engineer Farid Al-Ghumlas, said in a press release from the institute that this project was implemented with the latest strategies for controlling air conditioning units through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in order to reduce energy consumption while maintaining heat.

Al-Ghumlas added that the project methodology lies in building a model house similar to the Kuwaiti construction style to test innovative control strategies and develop modern systems for optimal control of air conditioning, lighting, and window blinds in this newly built model house, as well as reducing energy consumption in residential units by at least 20 percent using an optimal control system.

He pointed out that the research project achieved its goals by building a model house, and experiments were conducted to control air conditioning devices using three machine learning models. The results showed that the artificial neural network achieved the highest energy savings of 26 percent of the three models. — KUNA