Comfort of Air Conditioning Using Sensor Networks with Game Theory

Abstract

Air condition systems control the factors such as temperature and humidity to make people feel comfortable. But there are still many dynamics such as human entering in the environment deployed with the air condition systems. Although many control strategies are proposed to deal with dynamic environments. Most of the currently air condition systems try control the dynamics with the information provided by simple thermometers. With a sensor network, the information of the target environment can be fully collected instantly. Such information can be used by air condition systems to adjust the control scheme to provide a comfortable environment. However, there are always finite devices in an air condition system, and need to be well arranged to service the whole environment. The paper proposes an Intelligence Appliance with Air Condition System which adopts game theory for the arrangement of the resources of an air condition system based on the information collected by wireless sensor networks. A control system is implemented to verify the proposed system.