An Ensemble Learning Approach for Energy Demand Forecasting in Microgrids Using Fog Computing


Keskin T., İnce G.

International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, INFUS 2021, İstanbul, Türkiye, 24 - 26 Ağustos 2021, cilt.308, ss.170-178 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 308
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-030-85577-2_20
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.170-178
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Energy demand forecasting, Ensemble learning, Fog computing, Internet of Things, Microgrids, Smart grids
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Increased usage of smart meters enables information exchange between customers and utility providers in smart grid systems. Nowadays, the cloud-centric architecture has become a bottleneck for the decentralized and data-driven microgrids evolving from centralized Smart grids. Hence, fog computing is an appropriate paradigm to build distributed, latency-aware, and privacy-preserving energy demand applications in microgrid systems. In this work, we proposed a 3-tier architecture of a microgrid energy demand management system comprising edge, fog, and cloud layers. We set up a simulation environment where Raspberry Pi devices act as fog nodes and resource-efficient Docker applications run on these nodes. As the main contribution of the work, we developed a short-term load forecasting application based on an ensemble model that integrates support vector regression (SVR) and long-short term memory (LSTM) by leveraging the potential of distributed and low-latency fog nodes for complex models. We evaluated the forecasting model deployed in a fog-based simulation environment using the public REFIT Electrical Load dataset. We also tested the deployed fog-based simulation environment based on latency and execution time metrics.