TESLA: an energy-saving agent that leverages schedule flexibility

  • Authors:

  • Jun-young Kwak;Pradeep Varakantham;Rajiv Maheswaran;Yu-Han Chang;Milind Tambe;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Wendy Wood

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This innovative application paper presents TESLA, an agent-based application for optimizing the energy use in commercial buildings. TESLA's key insight is that adding flexibility to event/meeting schedules can lead to significant energy savings. TESLA provides three key contributions: (i) three online scheduling algorithms that consider flexibility of people's preferences for energy-efficient scheduling of incrementally/dynamically arriving meetings and events; (ii) an algorithm to effectively identify key meetings that lead to significant energy savings by adjusting their flexibility; and (iii) surveys of real users that indicate that TESLA's assumptions exist in practice. TESLA was evaluated on data of over 110,000 meetings held at nine campus buildings during eight months in 2011-2012 at USC and SMU. These results show that, compared to the current systems, TESLA can substantially reduce overall energy consumption.