The design of a hardware-software platform for long-term energy eco-feedback research

EICS'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 221-230

  Pereira, Lucas ^a   Quintal, Filipe ^a   Nunes, Nuno Jardim ^a   Bergés, Mario ^b  

^a MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eco feedback; Hardware software platform; Non intrusive load monitoring; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECO-FEEDBACK; ENERGY MONITOR; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; HARDWARE-SOFTWARE PLATFORM; LOCAL NETWORKS; MOBILE SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE MONITORS; NON-INTRUSIVE; NONINTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING; PROTOTYPE COST; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; REMOTE ACCESS; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COST ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864053535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2305484.2305521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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