In 2011 I managed the Advanced Development of a platform to deliver rich, analytics driven insights to domestic energy consumers. We trialled a number of key innovations in house holds across the San Francisco Bay Area. Including home dashboards, gamification of rewards for optimised behaviours, and disaggregation of energy sinks from a single signal.
Homes are a prime opportunity to improve energy management. In a pilot project, HP Labs has deployed sensing technology and a cloud-based application that provides unprecedented visibility and insight into a home’s energy use. Through an intuitive, customizable dashboard, homeowners can monitor and manage energy consumption of everything from their dishwasher to their TV, and learn how to save power in a room or throughout their entire house. By making home energy management easy and fun, HP is helping consumers make choices and change behaviors to save energy and money.
“Energy awareness in the home is about to undergo a transformation,” says Martha Lyons, a project manager with HP Labs’ Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group.
This was a very successful project. Looking back it gained real attention from our partners in the energy industry and in particular the disaggregation analytics was a real success. We went on from this to offer this as a service across a number of municipal areas in the Western USA.
See the HP press release for more on this, and the published paper from SRII.