Circulo: Saving energy with just-in-time hot water recirculation

BuildSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Frye, Andrew ^a   Goraczko, Michel ^b   Liu, Jie ^b   Prodhan, Anindya ^a   Whitehouse, Kamin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy and Water Conservation; Hot Water Recirculation

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; WATER;

ENERGY COST; HOT WATER; INSTALLATION COSTS; JUST IN TIME; SAVING ENERGY; WATER WASTES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84915786678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2528282.2528287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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