Gerold Hölzl, Peter Halbmayer, Harald Rogner, Chen Xue, Alois Ferscha,
"On the Utilization of Smart Gadgets for Energy Aware Sensitive Behavior"
: The 8th International Conference on Digital Society, ICDS 2014, March 23 - 27, Barcelona, Spain, 3-2014, ISBN: 978-1-61208-324-7
Original Titel:
On the Utilization of Smart Gadgets for Energy Aware Sensitive Behavior
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
The 8th International Conference on Digital Society, ICDS 2014, March 23 - 27, Barcelona, Spain
Original Kurzfassung:
The conscious, efficient, and economical consumption of energy is being identified recently as crucial topic for industry,
politics, and research. Limited earth resources that are still used for the majority of energy production head towards
increasing energy prices and stress world climate and the budget of people. We present the PowerIT System that utilizes smart gadgets to achieve a more efficient and economical use of the available energy. By providing instant feedback of the current
energy consumption in households by leveraging power metering technology and therefore raising awareness about the economics of the own energy usage, this work aims at reducing the energy
consumption of people in their homes. The real-time energy consumption is captured, whereas the power signatures of electrical devices measured by power metering systems are the input modality for the system. This data is provided in real time as visual feedback to the residents using today's available smart gadgets (e.g., smart phones, tablets, and smart watches) in
order to raise awareness about the current power demands. Beside the pure monitoring and control of power consumers, the system
additionally collects data about the activities of people by using smart watches. This data can be used to generate activity models resulting in activity aware power saving schemes. We argue that the awareness of people about their energy consumption can induce a behavioral change resulting in a more efficient use of
energy without (...)