Managing energy tariffs with agents: a field study of a future smart energy system at home
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
© 2015 ACM.Interactive autonomous systems are likely to be more involved in future energy systems to assist human users. Given this, we prototyped a future scenario in which householders are assisted in switching electricity tariffs by an agent-based interactive system. The system uses real-time electricity monitoring to instantiate a scenario where participants may have to make, or delegate to their agent (in a variety ways), tariff switching decisions given uncertainty about their own consumption. We carried out a field trial with 12 households for 6 weeks in order to study the notion of autonomy. The results show nuanced ways in which monitoring system performance and taking control is balanced in everyday practice. Our field study provides promising directions for future use of smart systems that help householders manage their energy.
Date Issued
2015-07
Date Acceptance
2015-09-07
Citation
2015
ISBN
978-1-4503-3575-1
Publisher
ACM
Start Page
1551
End Page
1558
Journal / Book Title
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Copyright Statement
© 2015 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published here: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2800835.2801626
Source
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Publication Status
Unpublished
Start Date
2015-09-07
Finish Date
2015-09-11
Coverage Spatial
Osaka, Japan