Using in-home sensing and feedback to change energy consumption awareness (September 2008 to May 2009)
Gregory Abowd
Students: Tae-Jung Yun, Mayank Garg, Maynak Goel
Samsung Technical POC: Namwook Kang
Our project goal is to investigate mobile energy monitor designs to provide households with relevant energy consumption information on their device, appliances and overall household consumption. Specifically, we are using technologies that leverage existing home infrastructure such as power lines to harvest energy information. Our initial test bed for evaluation is the Georgia Tech Aware Home and we are also recruiting participants outside of Georgia Tech for in the field deployments.
Accomplishments:
- Refined the prototype home energy management applications of energy monitoring to show a finer granularity of information including historical information on energy consumption and test this prototype.
- Delivered source codes for a mobile energy monitor and a measurement device.
- Delivered software requirement documents to Samsung.
- Acceptance and presentation of a work in progress paper based on the work conducted in this project at CHI 2009 [Yun 2009].
- Submitted an abstract to Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change conference 2009.
- Collaborative extension of the original statement of work that includes:
- Deployment and evaluation of the mobile energy monitor in Suwon, Korean. This evaluation will investigate the cultural differences between the perception of Korean and American households.
- This investigation will result in the submission of a conference paper to the CHI 2010
[Tae-Jung Yun, 2009] Tae-Jung Yun. Investigating the impact of a minimalist in-home energy consumption display. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI EA '09. ACM, New York, NY, 4417-4422.
[Tae-Jung Yun et al., 2009] Tae-Jung Yun, Mayank Garg, Seungok Choi, Namwook Kang, Gregory D. Abowd. Initial Awareness Does Matter?: How to Provide Customized Energy Feedback. Submitted to 2009 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference.