RP1042: Energy and indoor climate visualisation to encourage homeowners for low carbon living

This project aims to develop an integrated real-time feedback mechanism to make householders aware of their disaggregated energy consumption and indoor climate. Householders are provided with energy saving prompts and suggestions to optimise energy consumption for various services, such as space cooling and heating, lighting and plug loads. Further, information on indoor climate helps householders to make decisions on space cooling and heating using passive or active methods.

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RP1042: Energy and indoor climate visualisation to encourage households for low carbon living

At present, building scale energy efficiency is often limited to the design stage; therefore, the post occupancy energy efficiency of dwellings rarely gets reported. Australian households receive quarterly energy bills; however, these bills, which show aggregated energy consumption, are not helpful in understanding the breakdown of energy usage that would inform changes to the energy consumption behaviour or develop strategies for energy savings. This pilot project was designed to address this gap in energy usage information through development of an integrated visualisation platform to allow households to explore their indoor comfort conditions, and disaggregate electricity consumption and water consumption at residential scale.