How smart do smart meters need to be?

Mogles, Nataliya; Walker, Ian; Ramallo-González, Alfonso P.; Lee, Jeehang; Natarajan, Sukumar; Padget, Julián; Gabe-Thomas, Elizabeth; Lovett, Tom; Ren, Gang; Hyniewska, Sylwia; O’Neill, Eamonn; Hourizi, Rachid; Coley, David

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.09.008

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“…The potential of intermediaries for building competences in low-carbon ways of living has been recognised in previous studies, e.g., Reference [71]. There is also some indication that targeting particular practices such as showering, (via separate smart meter displays next to the shower) [72] or heating (measuring gas consumption with a smart meter and providing tailored, userand building specific advice to lower room temperatures through an in-home display) [73], may be successful in decreasing the resource consumption in these practices. From a practice theories point of view, this creates a stronger link to certain practices than providing information on (inconspicuous) energy or water consumption in general, which results from various domestic practices that are not always easily separable from each other.…”

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Framing Smart Meter Feedback in Relation to Practice Theory

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Smart metering is advancing rapidly and consumption feedback from smart meters is expected to help residents to reduce their energy and water consumption. In recent years, more critical views have been expressed based on theories of social practice, arguing that smart meter feedback ignores the role of various mundane practices where energy and water are consumed and instead targets individuals as active decision-makers. We present a review of qualitative studies on smart meter feedback and results of a survey to European smart metering projects. We argue that theories of social practice can be used to reframe the challenges and potentials of smart meter feedback that have been identified in the literature and our survey. This presents challenges of smart meter feedback as resulting from normalised resource intensive practices rather than from uninterested and comfort-loving individuals. Potentials of improving the effectiveness of smart meter feedback relate to supporting communities and peer-learning and combining smart meter feedback with micro-generation of renewable energy. This has implications for how domestic energy and water consumption is targeted by policy.term energy transition to refer to a systemic change from (the current), fossil-fuel based energy system where residents are mere consumers of energy, towards a system based on intermittent renewable energy sources and also involving power generation in smaller units, including the household and community level. The role of residents is expected to change in future smart energy systems and concepts of 'energy citizen' or 'citizen-consumer' and 'co-provider' have been used to describe residents who are actively engaged in the management of energy [7,8]. There are already examples of communities of front-runners in which learning from peers has contributed to increasing energy efficiency [9][10][11]. In a more critical context, the concept of 'Resource Man' has been introduced [12], referring to the ideal energy consumer that smart metering projects are targeted to.The objectives of smart electricity metering range from peak load management and reducing total demand to fraud detection and accurate billing [13] (p. 447). In the case of water metering, improved leak detection is also an important factor motivating smart meter roll-outs, in addition to the aim of decreasing the overall consumption of water e.g., [14]. There is variation in what residents see of the meters, from no direct information to in-home displays, websites or mobile applications visualising consumption in real-time [15].Large smart metering roll-out programs are under way or being planned throughout the developed countries. It is expected that by 2020 nearly 72% of European consumers will have a smart meter for electricity and 40% for gas [16]. The Energy Efficiency Directive of the EU also encourages the use of in-home displays [17], and the EU's 2015 Strategic Energy Technology Plan emphasises the need to provide smart solutions for energy consumers to enable them to optimise thei...

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“…Pesquisas na literatura sobre medidores inteligentes apresentam enfoque principalmente em aspectos de tecnologia e engenharia do dispositivo e poucos estudos apontam para o entendimento das questões que promovam a satisfação das necessidades do cliente (KAUFMANN et al, 2013;ALBANI et al, 2017). Ainda existe uma falta de compreensão do valor para o cliente em relação à utilização de medidores inteligentes que controlem integradamente água, energia e gás (MOGLES et al, 2017). Sendo assim, este artigo tem como objetivo desenvolver uma proposta de modelo de negócio com arranjo flexível voltada ao desenvolvimento e oferta de serviços associado aos medidores inteligentes (água e/ou energia e/ou gás) para uso doméstico.…”

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Consumo residencial: uma proposta de modelo de negócio para medidores inteligentes

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Fettermann

2019

Revista PO: R. Eletr. de Eng. de Produção e Correlatas

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São verificadas diversas iniciativas, tanto em empreendimentos como na literatura, para o desenvolvimento de produtos inteligentes voltados a aplicações residenciais, principalmente relacionados ao monitoramento e controle de consumo de energia por meio de medidores inteligentes. O uso de medidores inteligentes tem ganhado espaço em diversos países, porém verifica-se que este tipo de aplicação ainda é muito incipiente no Brasil, resultando em altos custos para as concessionárias na realização de coleta de dados de consumo no país. As pesquisas na literatura sobre medidores inteligentes apresentam principalmente foco em aspectos tecnológicos e engenharia de produto, o que resulta em uma lacuna em relação aos aspectos gerenciais e valor ao cliente. Dessa forma, este trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver uma proposta de modelo de negócio com arranjo flexível voltada ao desenvolvimento e oferta de serviços associado aos medidores inteligentes (água e/ou energia e/ou gás) para uso doméstico. Para tanto, foram utilizadas diversas fontes de evidência a fim de se levantar dados para o desenvolvimento do modelo. Foi possível observar que, de fato, as fontes de evidência da literatura e os casos identificados apresentam foco nos aspectos tecnológicos e estrutura do produto. Os resultados apresentam uma síntese de diversas possibilidades de configuração de modelos de negócio para medidores inteligentes residenciais. A partir disso, este resultado permite estimular o desenvolvimento de negócios para o controle e fomento do consumo consciente de recursos naturais, tais como água, energia e gás, tão estratégicos e críticos para a manutenção do meio ambiente.

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“…Considering that savings achieved by the presence of smart metes are small, the authors of paper [25] analyze the potential of replacing the simple statement of energy use provided by an in-home displays with detailed information designed to improve consumer energy knowledge and recommend behavior change by personalized messages. The results point out the necessity of improving energy literacy in order to promote and encourage energy efficient measures and new smart meters with the potential to increase savings and impact climate change strategies.…”

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Informatics Solution for Energy Efficiency Improvement and Consumption Management of Householders

2018

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Although in 2012 the European Union (EU) has promoted energy efficiency in order to ensure a gradual 20% reduction of energy consumption by 2020, its targets related to energy efficiency have increased and extended to new time horizons. Therefore, in 2016, a new proposal for 2030 of energy efficiency target of 30% has been agreed. However, during the last years, even if the electricity consumption by households decreased in the EU-28, the largest expansion was recorded in Romania. Taking into account that the projected consumption peak is increasing and energy consumption management for residential activities is an important measure for energy efficiency improvement since its ratio from total consumption can be around 25-30%, in this paper, we propose an informatics solution that assists both electricity suppliers/grid operators and consumers. It includes three models for electricity consumption optimization, profiles, clustering and forecast. By this solution, the daily operation of appliances can be optimized and scheduled to minimize the consumption peak and reduce the stress on the grid. For optimization purpose, we propose three algorithms for shifting the operation of the programmable appliances from peak to off-peak hours. This approach enables the supplier to apply attractive time-of-use tariffs due to the fact that by flattening the consumption peak, it becomes more predictable, and thus improves the strategies on the electricity markets. According to the results of the optimization process, we compare the proposed algorithms emphasizing the benefits. For building consumption profiles, we develop a clustering algorithm based on self-organizing maps. By running the algorithm for three scenarios, well-delimited profiles are obtained. As for the consumption forecast, highly accurate feedforward artificial neural networks algorithm with backpropagation is implemented. Finally, we test these algorithms using several datasets showing their performance and integrate them into a web-service informatics solution as a prototype.

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How smart do smart meters need to be?

Cited by 65 publications

References 30 publications

Framing Smart Meter Feedback in Relation to Practice Theory

Framing Smart Meter Feedback in Relation to Practice Theory

Consumo residencial: uma proposta de modelo de negócio para medidores inteligentes

Informatics Solution for Energy Efficiency Improvement and Consumption Management of Householders

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