EnergyScout: A Consumer Oriented Dashboard for Smart Meter Data
Analytics
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Nafees Ahmed, Klaus Mueller
2019
Abstract
The increasing popularity of smart meters provides energy consumers in
households with unprecedented opportunities for understanding and modifying
their energy use. However, while a variety of solutions, both commercial and
academic,have been proposed, research on effective visual analysis tools is
still needed to achieve widespread adoption of smart meters. In this paper we
explore an interface that seeks to balance the tradeoff between complexity and
usability. We worked with real household data and in close collaboration with
consumer experts of a large local utility company. Based on their continued
feedback we designed EnergyScout - a dashboard with a versatile set of highly
interactive visual tools with which consumers can understand the energy
consumption of their household devices, discover the impact of their usage
patterns, compare them with usage patterns of the past, and see via what-if
analysis what effects a modification of these patterns may have, also in the
context of modulated incentivized pricing, social and personal events, outside
temperature, and weather. All of these are events which could explain certain
usage patterns and help motivate a modification of behavior. We tested
EnergyScout with various groups of people, households, and energy bill
responsibilities in order to gauge the merits of this system.
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