Visualising Energy Use for Smart Homes and Informed Users

Stinson, Jon; Willis, Alexandra; Williamson, Julio Bros; Currie, John; Smith, R.Sean

Abstract

We evaluate the changes to domestic electricity and gas consumption when the occupants have local access to a coloured real time in-home display (IHD). We report the preliminary six months findings of a three year research project involving 52 new build Scottish dwellings (flats and houses). On average, when compared to households with no IHD(n=22) the households with the IHD (n=30) reduced their gas and electricity consumption by 20% and 7% respectively. We found that the IHD was valued
by the users for its ability to incite behaviour to reduce gas consumption and reinforce existing electricity saving behaviour.

Citation

Stinson, J., Willis, A., Williamson, J. B., Currie, J., & Smith, R. (2015, June). Visualising Energy Use for Smart Homes and Informed Users. Presented at 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015, Torino, Italy

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015
• Start Date: Jun 14, 2015
• End Date: Jun 17, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Deposit Date: Feb 9, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 9, 2016
• Journal: Energy Procedia
• Print ISSN: 1876-6102
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 78
• Pages: 579-584
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.015
• Keywords: Energy feedback; Coloured in-home display; Electricity and gas consumption; Behaviour change
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9509
• Contract Date: Feb 9, 2016