fighting against vampire appliances through eco-aware things
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Presentation made on esIoT 2012. This paper provides an overview of how Internet-connected objects can lead to a social change towards energy-efficiency in areas where people inhabit (cities, buildings or homes). For this aim it is proposed the use of social networks, like Twitter, as an interaction and communication channel between smart objects and human beings. The presented work demonstrates, by means of an experiment, how an augmented everyday object, i.e. a capsule-based coffee machine, may help to reduce the unnecessary consumed energy in electric appliances. The paper opens the discussion of the promising potential of combining people and future smart everyday objects teaming up to promote a more sustainable behaviour on the planet’s behalf.TRANSCRIPT
Fighting against Vampire Appliancesthrough Eco-aware Things
Juan Lopez-de-Armentia, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego Lopez-de-Ipina
DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deustohttp://www.morelab.deusto.es
July 4, 2012
Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
Fighting against Vampire Appliances throughEco-aware Things Introduction 3 / 22
Everything-connected era
I New computational actors expressing feelingsI Semantic modelsI Natural interaction channels
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Internet-connected objects contributions
I Difficulty to ”sense” some informationI CO2 particlesI Energy consumptionI ...
I Smart objects can help to ”sense” this informationI The minimization of the energy leakage of everyday
appliances
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Communication channels
I Interaction with smart everyday objectsI Twitter social networking service
I @Social CoffeI Smart objects and humans at the same communication layer
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Goal
”To demonstrate how augmented everyday objects maycontribute to the reduction of the energy consumption by
informing in a persuasive manner to concerned users aboutthe misuse of electronic appliances”
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Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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Electric Devices
I Three categories of electric objects according to how theyoperate
I Continuously connected to the mains, e.g. the telephoneI Not always connected to the mains, only when they are
operating, e.g. an ironI Although being switched off, they continue connected to the
electric grid in stand-by mode, the ”vampire mode” , e.g. aTV or a coffee machine
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Vampire mode
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Previous approaches
1. Smart Everyday ObjectsI Xcoffee
2. Social DevicesI Rymble, Botanicalls, Tweetjects
3. IoT for GreenI Efergy eSocket, Wattson Solar, Plogg
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Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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Operational use modes
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Instrumentation
I Dolce GustorI Arduino platform + Ethernet ShieldI Current sensor LEM AT 10 B5
I P = V ∗ I; E = P ∗ tI Micro-SD
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Research Context
I Research group composed of 30 membersI Aware of the experiment, but not of the goal
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Research, step by step
I How does the coffee machine operate?I Measurement of the consumed energyI Usage dataset generationI Detection of operational use modes and its energy implications
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Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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Results I
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Results II
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Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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Inspiring opportunities
I Millions of connected objects consuming energyI Eco-aware connected things + human beingsI Future work: analyse collected consumption dataset
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