Intelligent energy aware approaches for residential buildings: state-of-the-art review and future directions

In the past decade, the world’s energy consumption is increasing largely, while residential buildings are the primary sector consuming about a quarter of the total energy produced. The researchers have made significant efforts to reduce energy usage in previous years by implementing energy monitoring and prediction techniques. Further, these techniques have been utilized for energy optimization in residential buildings and provide the consumer awareness about the usage patterns. In this paper, intelligent energy aware approaches have been reviewed by focusing on energy monitoring, prediction, optimization and performance evaluation using benchmark energy datasets. This review has been concluded with a discussion on future research directions for improving energy aware approaches in residential buildings.