org.powertac.officecomplexcustomer.appliances
Class ICT

java.lang.Object
  org.powertac.officecomplexcustomer.appliances.Appliance
      org.powertac.officecomplexcustomer.appliances.NotShiftingAppliance
          org.powertac.officecomplexcustomer.appliances.ICT

public class ICT
extends NotShiftingAppliance

ICT are the appliances that are utilized mainly for work or to communicate with others from the household such as computers, telephone devices etc. They works only when someone is at home and uses them. So it's a not shifting appliance.

Version:

1.5, Date: 2.25.12

Author:

Antonios Chrysopoulos

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.powertac.officecomplexcustomer.appliances.Appliance

applianceOf, cycleDuration, log, name, power, saturation

Constructor Summary

ICT()

Method Summary

void	fillDailyOperation(int weekday, Random gen) This function fills out all the quarters of the appliance functions for a single day of the week.
void	initialize(String household, Properties conf, Random gen) This is the initialization function.
void	refresh(Random gen) At the end of each week the appliance models refresh their schedule.

Methods inherited from class org.powertac.officecomplexcustomer.appliances.Appliance

createWeeklyPossibilityOperationVector, dailyShifting, fillWeeklyOperation, getApplianceOf, getDuration, getPower, getSaturation, getWeeklyLoadVector, getWeeklyOperation, setApplianceOf, setOperationDays, showStatus, toString, weatherDailyFunction

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ICT

public ICT()

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize(String household,
                       Properties conf,
                       Random gen)

Description copied from class: Appliance

This is the initialization function. It uses the variable values for the configuration file to create the appliance as it should for this type.

Overrides:

initialize in class Appliance

fillDailyOperation

public void fillDailyOperation(int weekday,
                               Random gen)

Description copied from class: Appliance

This function fills out all the quarters of the appliance functions for a single day of the week.

Overrides:

fillDailyOperation in class Appliance

refresh

public void refresh(Random gen)

Description copied from class: Appliance

At the end of each week the appliance models refresh their schedule. This way we have a realistic and dynamic model, changing function hours, consuming power and so on.

Overrides:

refresh in class Appliance