Your total power consumption
Newsletter#2, 31­03­2015
Understanding your total power consumption pattern
In this second issue of the INTrEPID Newsletter, we will focus on your total power
consumption. Do you know that it is possible to be quantified in terms of how much power
we use across the day or the night? Our habits (e.g. go to work or work at home, get home
from work and crash or stay up late, and so on) determine patterns of energy consumption
that can identify our “energy personalities”. As explained in the recent article “Knowing your
energy personality can save you a lot of money” in The Washington Post, Opower software
company worked together with power companies with the aim to identify the set of energy
consumption patterns of the users. In the following we will give you some insights on your
total power consumption and some more details on the proposed set of energy consumption
patterns.
Check your total power consumption
As explained in the first issue of INTrEPID Newsletter, what you need is to know your BU
(Building Unit) identifier: find it on the following histograms and check your total power
consumption in the indicated time period. Note that the red histogram shows your per capita total power consumption (i.e. the total
power consumption divided the number of persons you declared be in the house)
Histograms are ordered in ascending mode with regard to the BU per capita consumption.
The plot is related to energy measures from March the 2nd to March the 16th.
The energy consumption patterns
Opower proposes the following energy consumption pattern classification: Steady Eddies,
Evening Peakers, Night Owl, Twin Peaks and Daytimers. Well, do you recognize your habits
in one of the following groups? Of course analyzing your consumption data it is not always a
trivial task! Just think about how your consumption modifies moving from weekdays to
weekend or one season to another season of the year.
To give an idea of how the real energy consumption patterns are and how they can fit into
the proposed classification, we investigated some Bus as shown in the following charts.
Notice that the different color lines represent different days (weekdays and weekend)
whereas the red solid lines represent the average consumption for all the examined days. Y­
axis data are expressed in Watt. Depending on your energy personality, there are likely different ways to reduce the cost of
your energy bill or modify your behavior if you want to do that of course!
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android smartphone to
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The Advanticsys meters and
sensors are now integrated in
the INTrEPID system! If you
The INTrEPID system is
presented during various
events and exhibitions. As an
automatically update your apps
have the Advanticsys devices
example, the next one is
or do it manually. The mobile
app is regularly updated by the
installed, you will be able to
check them through the
“SOLAREXPO | THE
INNOVATION CLOUD”, from
INTrEPID team to include new
“Devices” the
April 8 to April 10 at the “MiCo”
planned features of the system.
INTrEPID mobile app, just make
logout&login to allow
Convention Center in the heart
of Milan ( see more). If you
If you check your mobile app
synchronization of your app
happen to go to the exhibition,
regularly you can also see in
the “Statistics” section the
with the new added devices.
locate the RSE stand to see the
INTrEPID system in action.
breakdown of your total power
consumption and how it
modifies through the different
section of days, weeks or months of the
year.
INTrEPID
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INTelligent systems, Energy Prosumer buildings, District level
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