Title |
Development of a Green Home Simulator using LabVIEW |
Authors |
김조환(Kim, Jo-Hwan) ; 문상현(Moon, Sang-Hyun) ; 김병재(Kim, Byung-Jae) ; 김진석(Kim, Jin-Seok) ; 장주현(Jang, Joo-Hyun) ; 조재영(Jo, Jae-Young) ; 신행자(Shin, Haeng-Ja) ; 손준익(Son, Joon-Ik) ; 김종욱(Kim, Jong-Wook) |
Keywords |
LabVIEW ; Green home ; Simulator ; Intelligent home ; Green energy |
Abstract |
In this paper, we developed a green home simulator using LabVIEW for house designers or users to assess energy saving costs in an easy and direct way. The LabVIEW simulator has a strong graphic user interface, which is intuitive to general users. Therefore, the developed simulator enables one to gather information on electric power consumed in its house and to calculate efficiency for installing green energy generators such as solar and wind power generators. As an actual application, we simulate and compare the efficiencies of installing green energy generators at various cities and seasons using the developed LabVIEW simulator. The simulation results confirm that energy saving effects of green energies are easy to calculate by the proposed green home simulator. |