Hardware demonstration of a home energy management system for demand response applications

crucial role in realizing residential Demand Response (DR) pro-grams in the smart grid environment. It provides a homeowner the ability to automatically perform smart load controls based on utility signals, customer’s preference and load priority. This paper presents the hardware demonstration of the proposedHEM system formanaging end-use appliances. TheHEM’s communication time delay to perform load control is analyzed, along with its residual energy consumption. Index Terms—Demand response (DR), home energy manage-ment (HEM), smart grid, home automation. I