ABSTRACT
The use of predictive control has recently developed in the building sector, as evidenced by numerous research studies. A method of approximating the results of the predictive control is to minimise the objective function of the optimisation problem by simulating the building under representative outdoor and indoor disturbances of a typical year. In the absence of access to a real building for studying the behaviour of the predictive control, the latter will be studied through digital simulation. The increase in the number of energy-efficient and “connected” buildings opens up new prospects for the development of new services related to energy management and smart grids. The techniques commonly used to define real-time energy management strategies rely on the application of model predictive control. In this technique, the minimisation of the objective function is carried out by taking the current and future state of the building into account, by predicting the evolution of the external and internal disturbances.
