Visualization for Personal Energy Analytics

个人能量分析可视化

• 批准号: 486928-2015
• 负责人: Bartram, Linda(Lyn)
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Simon Fraser University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=585843
• 关键词: Visualization; Personal; Energy; Analytics

Energy efficiency in buildings is a low-cost, effective way to reduce carbon pollution while protecting citizens and businesses from energy rate hikes, reducing energy poverty and improving health and productivity. Simply improving building science is insufficient, however: in particular, residential energy use is predicted to rise at twice the rate of population growth, highlighting the critical role of the inhabitant in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason energy providers have targeted awareness and behaviour change as important goals in conservation strategies and are actively exploring the use of enriched feedback and reports to improve residential energy consumption patterns. Studies show that while such feedback is useful the results are still less than desired: in particular a lack of actionable knowledge decouples people's energy use from the impact of their everyday activities. This highlights the problem that while we have increasing access to rich and timely data in a range of reporting tools, we still know very little about how to design, situate and integrate them in daily life to support people in making more efficient energy use decisions. Barriers still exist in practice for people to fully understand their energy data and related impact, mostly due to the lack of contextual information related to what the householder was doing at the time of consumption. Ecotagious Ltd. uses disaggregation algorithms to identify energy consumption by appliance in aggregate: that is, delivered to the householder in periodic reports (energy bill). The company is interested in extending these reports to include more activity context to help households understand their energy consumption data and the related behaviour. In this Engage project, we will focus on designing and developing interactive visualization approaches that can support residential consumers to better understand household energy use assisted by the context from load desegregation, external conditions and personal activity.

建筑节能是在保护公民的同时减少碳污染的低成本、有效途径 和企业从能源价格上涨，减少能源贫困和改善健康和生产力。简单 然而，改善建筑科学是不够的：特别是，预计住宅能源使用量将上升， 人口增长率的两倍，突出了居民在减少能源消耗方面的关键作用 消费和温室气体排放。为此，能源供应商有针对性的认识， 行为改变作为保护战略的重要目标，并正在积极探索使用丰富的 反馈和报告，以改善住宅能源消费模式。研究表明，虽然 反馈是有用的，但结果仍不如预期：特别是缺乏可采取行动的知识 人们日常活动对能源的影响。这突出了一个问题，虽然我们有 尽管越来越多的人可以通过一系列报告工具获得丰富而及时的数据，但我们仍然对如何 设计、规划和整合这些能源，以支持人们做出更有效的能源使用决策。 在实践中，人们在充分了解其能源数据和相关影响方面仍然存在障碍， 主要是由于缺乏与户主在做什么有关的上下文信息， 消费Ecotagious Ltd.使用分解算法来识别 总量：即在定期报告（能源账单）中提交给住户。公司有兴趣 扩展这些报告，包括更多的活动背景，以帮助家庭了解他们的能源 消费数据和相关行为。在这个Engage项目中，我们将专注于设计和开发 交互式可视化方法，可以支持住宅消费者更好地了解家庭 能量使用由来自负荷分离、外部条件和个人活动的上下文辅助。