DEHEMS: A user-driven domestic energy monitoring system

Sundramoorthy, V.; Liu, Qi; Cooper, G. S.; Linge, Nigel; Cooper, Joshua

doi:10.1109/iot.2010.5678451

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“…Having the IMSS data displayed on a tablet application enabled the Smarter A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T 33 Households researchers to add more engaging features through colours and gamified elements, such as the ability to set personalised goals, and earn points through reading hints and tips.…”

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Implementing an integrated meter and sensor system (IMSS) in existing social housing stock

Shukla

Liu

Gaterell

et al. 2019

Energy and Buildings

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The current rollout of smart meters for gas and electricity, both in the UK and internationally, will help suppliers to better forecast demand and supply accurate bills to consumers. However, even with an in-home display (IHD), the benefits of a smart meter to a domestic customer are limited by the so-called "double invisibility" of energy [1] and the standardisation of IHD design for an imagined home "microresource manager" [2]. Furthermore, low-income households may be limited in the benefits they can reap from such systems; already living within a tight budget, suggestions for further energy-related cost savings may be detrimental to their health and wellbeing. This makes it important that the impact of actions taken to save energy is communicated. This can be done using indoor environmental measures, including carbon dioxide, relative humidity and temperature, as part of an integrated meter and sensor system (IMSS) and an associated IHD or digital application. Such a system gives users the ability to make informed decisions about their energy use and indoor environmental health. This paper explores the potential barriers to implementing an * Corresponding author: Email: Shuli.Liu@coventry.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 24 7765 7822 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTA C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T 2 IMSS in practice. It explains how an IMSS was designed, based on a review of meter and sensor systems; details the process is taken to trial the IMSS in 19 social housing properties in the English Midlands; and makes recommendations for a larger scale rollout of IMSSs. The paper also reviews current progress in cloud storage and security as relevant to IMSSs and smart metering.

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“…The system can also provide specific energy efficiency recommendations for the household. The home data is transferred using ZigBee and RF from the sensor to the gateway and internet to the store servers[32] [33].…”

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Implementing an integrated meter and sensor system (IMSS) in existing social housing stock

Shukla

Liu

Gaterell

et al. 2019

Energy and Buildings

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“…Visualising the behaviour and providing the user with means to analyse it is a first step towards making the user more aware of their behaviour and ultimately changing it [79]. Visualisations can be data-oriented, e.g., bar or pie charts [80,81]; closely connected to the real behaviour context, e.g., floor plans when showing resource consumption in a building [80,81]; metaphorical, e.g., traffic lights and gauges [81][82][83]; playful and ambient such as shown in BeAware [84] or in [85]; and connected to nature or animal habitats, often termed eco-visualisation [82,[86][87][88]. To effectively visualise resource consumption behaviour and facilitate long-term sustainable behaviour change, the information on the behaviour to be visualised should be broken down, e.g., temporally, by events, per appliance or type of behaviour [80,82,87,89].…”

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A Survey on the Design of Gamified Systems for Energy and Water Sustainability

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Fraternali

Gonzalez

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In a world affected by the constant growth and concentration of the population in urban areas, the problem of preserving natural resources has become a priority. A promising approach to resource conservation is demand management, i.e., the ability to positively influence the behaviour of the population towards more sustainable consumption. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools have shown a great potential in influencing consumers' behaviour, which could be exploited for the common good. However, the design of so-called persuasive systems for environmental purposes is a challenging task, because it cannot be based solely on the utilitarian motivation of users, but must be able to trigger a broader range of engagement factors deeply rooted in the human psychology. In this paper, we review the main design principles and models at the base of a class of persuasive system that exploits gamification and Games with a Purpose (GWAPs) to engage users towards sustainability; we identify the most commonly used incentive mechanisms for inducing behavioural changes; and present a selection of gamified systems for energy and water conservation. From such a survey, we distill design guidelines to be applied in the design of demand management socio-technical systems.

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“…As a parent in FM1 put it, "[the children] probably aren't going to get up and look at this, so having it just that easy visual is good." Previous research has noted that a child-accessible interface is important [28]. Figures 4 and 5 show two abstract designs from our family groups, but their other designs included a pattern-changing carpet and decorative plate, as well as a color-changing stuffed animal.…”

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Deriving Age Diverse Personas from a Participatory Design Study on Home Electricity Feedback

Dodge

Hilton

Metoyer

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Eco-feedback technology is generally concerned with the communication of information to affect individual or group behavior with respect to environmental impact. Electricity consumption feedback, in particular, has been studied from various viewpoints to understand its effects on consumption behavior and to explore the design space. Recent efforts have resulted in a wide array of device designs ranging from individual appliance feedback at the outlet to centralized devices for home consumption awareness. However, adoption rates for these technologies remain relatively poor, perhaps due to a lack of emphasis on specific user needs. In this paper, we contribute a participatory design study to examine differences and similarities among three targeted household demographics: older adults, families with children, and students in shared housing. In addition, we present our process for extracting personas from participatory design study data, alongside the set of resulting persona skeletons and one finished persona.

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DEHEMS: A user-driven domestic energy monitoring system

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Implementing an integrated meter and sensor system (IMSS) in existing social housing stock

Implementing an integrated meter and sensor system (IMSS) in existing social housing stock

A Survey on the Design of Gamified Systems for Energy and Water Sustainability

Deriving Age Diverse Personas from a Participatory Design Study on Home Electricity Feedback

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