[UCI-Calit2] REMINDER - Seminar Tuesday on Energy Consumption in the Home

Stuart Ross stuross at calit2.uci.edu
Mon Jul 12 22:00:47 PDT 2010


SURF-IT SEMINAR SERIES

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology

 

Tuesday, July 13           Calit2 Building, Room 3008

A light lunch will be served at 11:45 AM.  The seminar will begin at
noon.

 

"uci at home: How can IT help you reduce your energy consumption at home?"

 

Energy is consumed by people, not appliances, so engineering approaches
to reducing energy consumption are most effective when combined with
social science methodology.  Since electricity is an invisible resource,
we typically consume it without any tangible feedback at the time of
use:  imagine buying your groceries in a supermarket that hides all the
price tags and sends you a monthly bill.  The uci at home project is an
interdisciplinary collaboration to design a residential energy
monitoring and feedback system that is effective in informing our
decisions and reshaping our habits.  The system consists of a wireless
network of smart power strips that deliver immediate feedback using
simple audio-visual cues and also send detailed data to a central home
hub.  Each power strip monitors the power consumption and character of
its plug loads, in addition to the room temperature (is the air
conditioning or heating on?) and the quality and quantity of ambient
light (is the room lit naturally or artificially?).  Residents can
access the hub using any web-enabled device to review their home data.
The uci at home team is currently running a pilot study in a small number
of homes to optimize a prototype system using a single-subject
experimental design to conduct a component analysis with
multiple-baseline and reversal features.  This talk will review the
goals and progress of the uci at home project.  See
http://athome.ps.uci.edu/. 

 

David Kirkby is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy.  His current
research activities are in observational cosmology, and he has
previously published on experimental particle physics. He has also been
interested in energy conservation for several years.  

Dr. Kirkby is mentoring SURF-IT Fellow Jonathan Chu, a computer science
major.

 

SURF-IT is cosponsored by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Office.

 

 

 

 

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