%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Marco Pritoni
%A Angela Sanguinetti
%A Rebecca Ford
%A Beth Karlin
%B ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
%D 2018
%G eng
%T Smart Home Energy Management: Use Cases and Savings Opportunities
%U https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vx8h5gj#main
%X <p><span>Smart home technology has been gain</span><span>ing traction in recent years</span><span>, especially since the </span><span>introduction of intelligent pers</span><span>onal assistants such as the Ama</span><span>zon Echo or Google Home. With </span><span>smart devices replacing manual </span><span>controls in homes, utilities and</span><span> policymakers need to understand </span><span>the potential of thi</span><span>s technology to save energy or shift load t</span><span>o identify whether/how they can </span><span>support it. While most of the c</span><span>urrent industrial research on sm</span><span>art home technology focuses on </span><span>non-energy benefits, there is a </span><span>clear need to identify products</span><span> and features that hold promise to </span><span>support home energy management (HEM) functions. This paper pres</span><span>ents a framework for </span><span>identifying use cases for home ene</span><span>rgy management systems (HEMS)</span><span>. Our analysis draws on data </span><span>from a multi-method research study on HEMS that included interv</span><span>iews and surveys with </span><span>consumers and stakeholders, as </span><span>well as a technological assessme</span><span>nt of over 300 HEM products. </span><span>The framework inventories and cat</span><span>egorizes opportunities to redu</span><span>ce or shift home energy </span><span>consumption, then maps these oppor</span><span>tunities to specific strategi</span><span>es a HEM product user can enact, </span><span>or allow, and specifies the requi</span><span>red product/system features an</span><span>d user interactions. These use </span><span>cases can support th</span><span>e design of smart home products that better</span><span> enable HEMS, the development </span><span>of educational tools to promote</span><span> the energy management uses of s</span><span>mart home products to </span><span>consumers and can guide the creat</span><span>ion of policies, regulations, </span><span>and programs. </span></p>