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This is due to the abundant use of IoT devices. Various home appliances, such as heaters, dishwashers, and vacuum cleaners, are used every day. It is thought that proper control of these home appliances can reduce significant amounts of energy use. For this purpose, optimization techniques focusing mainly on energy reduction are used. Current optimization techniques somewhat reduce energy use but overlook user convenience, which was the main goal of introducing home appliances. Therefore, there is a need for an optimization method that effectively addresses the trade-off between energy saving and user convenience. Current optimization techniques should include weather metrics other than temperature and humidity to effectively optimize the energy cost of controlling the desired indoor setting of a smart home for the user. This research work involves an optimization technique that addresses the trade-off between energy saving and user convenience, including the use of air pressure, dew point, and wind speed. To test the optimization, a hybrid approach utilizing GWO and PSO was modeled. This work involved enabling proactive energy optimization using appliance energy prediction. An LSTM model was designed to test the appliances\u2019 energy predictions. Through predictions and optimized control, smart home appliances could be proactively and effectively controlled. First, we evaluated the RMSE score of the predictive model and found that the proposed model results in low RMSE values. Second, we conducted several simulations and found the proposed optimization results to provide energy cost savings used in appliance control to regulate the desired indoor setting of the smart home. Energy cost reduction goals using the optimization strategies were evaluated for seasonal and monthly patterns of data for result verification. Hence, the proposed work is considered a better candidate solution for proactively optimizing the energy of smart homes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23073640","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]],"date-time":"2023-03-31T08:27:27Z","timestamp":1680251247000},"page":"3640","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Energy Prediction and Optimization for Smart Homes with Weather Metric-Weight Coefficients"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3019-9191","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Asif","family":"Mehmood","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Smart Information Technology Engineering Department, Kongju National University, Cheonan 31080, Republic of Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2431-1108","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kyu-Tae","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Smart Information Technology Engineering Department, Kongju National University, Cheonan 31080, Republic of Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3457-2301","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Do-Hyeun","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Republic of Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"81","DOI":"10.1016\/j.enbuild.2017.01.083","article-title":"Data driven prediction models of energy use of appliances in a low-energy house","volume":"140","author":"Candanedo","year":"2017","journal-title":"Energy Build."},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"2231","article-title":"Towards a dynamic virtual iot network based on user requirements","volume":"69","author":"Mehmood","year":"2021","journal-title":"Comput. 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