Maximum Utilization of Allocated Power for Scheduling of Smart Home Appliances

Scheduling of smart appliances is one of the ways which can be used to reduce the demand peak. Sometimes this results in under utilization of the available power thus creating a gap between the desired demand target power and the actual used power. This is mainly caused by appliances that consume constant power during the course of their operation. In this paper we have studied the distributed scheduling algorithm proposed by [Chen et al, 2014] and we propose a new way in which this gap can be filled so as to fully utilize the available power during peak hours and eventually result in some appliances finishing to run earlier.