fighting against vampire appliances through eco-aware things

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

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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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