A USER CENTRIC APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Jeroen Stragier, Jan Derboven

2012

Abstract

The development and small scale field trial in Flanders of a home energy management system is presented. During the development, a user-centric approach was used to create interaction between developers and possible end-users in a living lab setting. This allowed actively addressing people’s needs and wants in the development process and testing the system in their homes. The preliminary results of the field trial indicate a high usage during the starting week, which gradually slows down over the weeks that follow. Usage of the different elements in the system varies over the weeks but a consistent “top 3” of elements remains. Dynamic pricing is used by a small but consistent part of the participants. They actively adapt their appliance usage to these prices.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Stragier J. and Derboven J. (2012). A USER CENTRIC APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-8565-09-9, pages 185-190. DOI: 10.5220/0003948101850190

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens12,
author={Jeroen Stragier and Jan Derboven},
title={A USER CENTRIC APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2012},
pages={185-190},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003948101850190},
isbn={978-989-8565-09-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - A USER CENTRIC APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8565-09-9
AU - Stragier J.
AU - Derboven J.
PY - 2012
SP - 185
EP - 190
DO - 10.5220/0003948101850190