Visualising Household Energy Use in the Interest of Developing Sustainable Energy Systems

Löfström, Erica; Palm, Jenny

doi:10.1080/02673030802425602

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“…How energy is produced and distributed is not relevant from this point of view; the important thing is fulfilling those needs. (However, it might be relevant for the environmentally engaged person who emphasizes environmentally friendly energy production) [22][23]. The overall goal must in the end be to introduce ecologically sustainable solutions and then meet the challenge of integrating these solutions in such a way that they provide and sustain what people consider to be normal services.…”

Section: Influence Energy Consumption -Information and Feedbackmentioning

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Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday life more sustainable

2011

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social context) they are performed. We discuss the importance of relating information and feedback to households' everyday activities, in order to make it relevant to households. Through our method we discover and visualize activity patterns in a household during a given period. The method is also useful to households as a reflective tool when discussing families' daily lives in relation to energy consumption. The method gives direct feedback to households and the information is relevant since it emanates from their own reported activities.

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2011

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“…In a study on the use of an electricity monitor (PowerCost) by Mountain (2006), one third of the participants indicated they would not use the monitor any more after the pilot. Lofstrom and Palm (2008) addressed the use of the Power-Aware Cord, which can visualize the electricity use of a single socket. They tested it for two months with six households and found that whereas in the beginning people were enlightened by the energy use of an appliance, after some time the Power-Aware Cord 'just' became a decorative element, likened by all participants to Christmas lights.…”

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Home energy monitors: impact over the medium-term

Dam¹,

Bakker²,

Hal³

2010

Building Research & Information

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Home Energy Management Systems (Hems), e.g. energy monitors, are intermediary products that can visualize, manage, and/or monitor the energy use of other products or whole households. Hems increasingly receive attention for their role in energy conservation in households. A literature review and a case study examine the mid-term effectiveness (> 4 months) of Hems. The case study present the results of a 15-month pilot with a domestic energy monitor in the Netherlands. It explores the extent to which participants manage to sustain their initial electricity savings over time, with a special focus on the development of habitual energy saving behaviour. The results show that the initial savings in electricity consumption of 7.8 % after 4 months could not be sustained in the medium to long term. A second finding is that certain groups of people seem more receptive to energy saving interventions than others. These participants quickly develop new habits and exhibit larger savings than other participants. Obviously, a 'one-size-fits-all' approach for home energy monitors cannot be justified. For Hems to be effective, a deeper understanding is needed embracing social science, contextual factors, usability and interaction design research.

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“…The greatest opportunities as mentioned by many articles are, Resource and waste optimisation (Bilal et al, 2015;Oyedele, 2016;Oyedele et al, 2013;Lu et al, 2015Lu et al, , 2016, Generative designs and clash detection and resolution (Nima, 2014;Wang and Leite, 2013), performance prediction (Abaza et al, 2004;Kobayashi et al, 2010), visual analytics (Goodwin and Dykes, 2012;Löfström and Palm, 2008), social networking services/analytics (Demirkesen and Ozorhon, 2017;Wolf et al, 2009), personalised services (Liu et al, 2012;Singh et al, 2010), facility management (Isikdag et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2012;Rueppel and Stuebbe, 2008;Taneja et al, 2012), Energy management and analytics (Hong et al, 2012;Linda et al, 2012;Sanyal and New, 2013), big data integration with BIM (Volk et al, 2014), big data integration with IOT and cloud computing (Elghamrawy and Boukamp, 2010), big data for augmented reality (AR) (Williams et al, 2015), use of big data for smart buildings and smart city/urban infrastructure (Khan and Hornbaek, 2011;Liu et al, 2014). Further, Mishra et al (2017) and Janssen et al (2017) purport that exploitation of BDA can lead to gain competitive advantage at any level.…”

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Critical analysis for big data studies in construction: significant gaps in knowledge

Madanayake

Egbu

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the gaps and potential future research avenues in the big data research specifically in the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts systematic literature review (SLR) approach to observe and understand trends and extant patterns/themes in the big data analytics (BDA) research area particularly in construction-specific literature. Findings A significant rise in construction big data research is identified with an increasing trend in number of yearly articles. The main themes discussed were big data as a concept, big data analytical methods/techniques, big data opportunities – challenges and big data application. The paper emphasises “the implication of big data in to overall sustainability” as a gap that needs to be addressed. These implications are categorised as social, economic and environmental aspects. Research limitations/implications The SLR is carried out for construction technology and management research for the time period of 2007–2017 in Scopus and emerald databases only. Practical implications The paper enables practitioners to explore the key themes discussed around big data research as well as the practical applicability of big data techniques. The advances in existing big data research inform practitioners the current social, economic and environmental implications of big data which would ultimately help them to incorporate into their strategies to pursue competitive advantage. Identification of knowledge gaps helps keep the academic research move forward for a continuously evolving body of knowledge. The suggested new research avenues will inform future researchers for potential trending and untouched areas for research. Social implications Identification of knowledge gaps helps keep the academic research move forward for continuous improvement while learning. The continuously evolving body of knowledge is an asset to the society in terms of revealing the truth about emerging technologies. Originality/value There is currently no comprehensive review that addresses social, economic and environmental implications of big data in construction literature. Through this paper, these gaps are identified and filled in an understandable way. This paper establishes these gaps as key issues to consider for the continuous future improvement of big data research in the context of the construction industry.

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Visualising Household Energy Use in the Interest of Developing Sustainable Energy Systems

Cited by 19 publications

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Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday life more sustainable

Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday life more sustainable

Home energy monitors: impact over the medium-term

Critical analysis for big data studies in construction: significant gaps in knowledge

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