About
Our project aims to develop a new paradigm for smart and connected residential communities that engages inhabitants in understanding and reducing their home energy use while increasing their environmental awareness, responsiveness to collective goals, and improving their quality of life. Our primary research goals are to 1) Discover new knowledge on how individuals, groups, and residential communities make decisions related to their home energy consumption. 2) Develop feedback mechanisms and smart technology to transform this often-irrational, information-poor process into an information-rich and coordinated energy management activity. 3) Demonstrate user-interactive devices and feedback mechanisms that optimize and incentivize energy management. 4) Foster energy-aware communities that can be scaled across the U.S based on S&C technology, data analytics, and predictive modeling. In collaboration with our community partners (the Indiana Housing and Community Development Agency and BWI, LLC), smart and connected (S&C) technology will be implemented in several hundred households in multiple residential communities across Indiana which are used as research test-beds covering a wide range of demographics, locations, and construction.
The project is funded by NSF #1737591.
