Reducing Energy Consumption in the Workplace via IoT-Allowed Behavioural Change Interventions

Buildings

Cleopatra Bardaki¹  Valentina Tomat²  Aurora González Vidal²  Alfonso P. Ramallo-González²  Antonio Skarmeta Gómez²  Pedro J. Fernandez Ruiz²  Dimosthenis Kotsopoulos³ 

[1] Department of Informatics and Telematics, Hapokopio University of Athens, 17778 Tavros, Greece;Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain;Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, 10434 Athens, Greece;

关键词: workplace;    energy;    IoT;    behavior;    energy saving;   

DOI  :  10.3390/buildings12060708

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has opened the door to a variety of services for building users. Considering the long-lasting issue of high energy use by buildings and low-energy literacy, it is tempting to use this new technology for increasing the literacy of users. This paper shows the results of a study performed in two pilot buildings with real users that have interacted with a series of energy educational interventions that encourage them in a timed and personalised way to reduce their energy consumption. The interventions aimed at reducing the consumption of energy and a close follow-up of the intervention from a behavioural aspect has been performed. The results show that the users, when interacting with the intervention and staying active, can reduce the energy consumption in the building by more than 30%, but the average savings are of 20%. This is in consensus with the literature, but in our case, the intervention has been one showing that personalised methods can result in energy reductions as large as those of more standard interventions.

【 授权许可】

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