YouPower: An open source platform for community-oriented smart grid user engagement

Yilin Huang; Hanna Hasselqvist; Giacomo Poderi; Sanja Šćepanović; Filip Kis; Cristian Bogdan; Martijn Warnier; Frances Brazier

doi:10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000058

YouPower: An open source platform for community-oriented smart grid user engagement

Yilin Huang
, Hanna Hasselqvist
, Giacomo Poderi
, Sanja Šćepanović
, Filip Kis
, Cristian Bogdan
, Martijn Warnier
, Frances Brazier

Delft University of Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Trento
Aalto University

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents YouPower, an open source platform designed to make people more aware of their energy consumption and encourage sustainable consumption with local communities. The platform is designed iteratively in collaboration with users in the Swedish and Italian test sites of the project to improve the design and increase active user participation. The community-oriented design is composed of parts that link energy data to energy actions, provide comparisons at different levels, generate dynamic time-of-use signals, offer energy conservation suggestions, and support social sharing. The goal is to bridge people's attitude-behavior gap in energy consumption and to facilitate the behavior change process towards sustainable energy consumption that is implementable in people's daily life. Preliminary results show that community-oriented energy intervention has the potential to improve user engagement significantly.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)
Number of pages	6
Place of Publication	Calabria, Italy
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	1 May 2017
Pages	1-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-4430-6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-4429-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000058
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Energy consumption, Buildings, Electronic mail, Home appliances, Production, Real-time systems, smart grids

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1 Book chapter
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Embedding Internet-of-Things in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: A Community-Oriented Design in Future Smart Grids
Huang, Y., Poderi, G., Šćepanović, S., Hasselqvist, H., Warnier, M. & Brazier, F., 2019, The Internet of Things for Smart Urban Ecosystems. Cicirelli, F., Guerrieri, A., Mastroianni, C., Spezzano, G. & Vinci, A. (eds.). Springer, p. 125-150 (Internet of Things).
Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Disentangling participation through time and interaction spaces–the case of IT design for energy demand management
Poderi, G., Bettega, M., Capaccioli, A. & D'Andrea, V., 1 Jan 2018, In: CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. 14, 1, p. 45-59 15 p.
Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Exploring participatory energy budgeting as a policy instrument to foster energy justice
Capaccioli, A., Poderi, G., Bettega, M. & D'Andrea, V., Aug 2017, In: Energy Policy. 107, p. 621-630 10 p.
Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

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2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC). Calabria, Italy: IEEE, 2017. p. 1-6.

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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YouPower: An open source platform for community-oriented smart grid user engagement

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Embedding Internet-of-Things in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: A Community-Oriented Design in Future Smart Grids

Disentangling participation through time and interaction spaces–the case of IT design for energy demand management

Exploring participatory energy budgeting as a policy instrument to foster energy justice

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