Real-time, appliance-level electricity use feedback system: How to engage users?

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 455-462

  Chen, Victor L ^a   Delmas, Magali A ^b   Kaiser, William J ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

End to end system; Energy dashboard; Energy monitoring; Energy use behavior; Information feedback; Retrofit technology; Smart meter; Social impact; User engagement; Web analytics

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END SYSTEMS; ENERGY DASHBOARD; ENERGY MONITORING; ENERGY USE; INFORMATION FEEDBACK; SOCIAL IMPACT; USER ENGAGEMENT; WEB ANALYTICS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIGHTING; RETROFITTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMART METERS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84891518626     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.11.069     Document Type: Article

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