Insert-coin: turning the household into a prepaid billing system

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Monacchi;Wilfried Elmenreich

  • Affiliations:
  • Networked and Embedded Systems/Lakeside Labs, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria;Networked and Embedded Systems/Lakeside Labs, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Energy awareness is the ability to perceive the role of energy in daily activities. We combine appliance-level consumption information with prepaid billing so as to turn appliances in pay-as-you-go devices. We expect a greater awareness of energy available and demand to arise from the interaction with such a system. In this paper, we introduce the key principles of pay-as-you-go devices and report about the implementation of this strategy as an energy management system consisting of a cloud-based webservice and a mobile application.