Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input

Abstract

This paper presents Wattom, a highly interactive ambient eco-feedback smart plug that aims to promote a more sustainable use of electricity in the home. This paper describes our latest implementation of the Wattom plug, and three system applications. The first enables Wattom to power a connected device , and provide real-time feedback on the amount of electricity in the grid from renewable sources. The second enables users to schedule power events from their smart watches. Finally, the third application uses non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) to provide users with personal consumption information on multiple devices connected to a single Wattom plug. The paper concludes by presenting insights into the development and use of various iterations of the Wattom plug.

Citation

Esteves, A., Quintal, F., Caires, F., Baptista, V., & Mendes, P. (2019). Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input. In 2019 5th Experiment International Conference (exp.at'19). https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2019.8876565

• Conference Name: EX.PAT'19
• Conference Location: University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
• Start Date: Jun 11, 2019
• End Date: Jun 14, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Mar 25, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Oct 21, 2019
• Publication Date: Oct 21, 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 21, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Book Title: 2019 5th Experiment International Conference (exp.at'19)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2019.8876565
• Keywords: Smart plug; wearables; ambient eco-feedback; ambient display; gestural input; motion matching
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1689984