Publication Date: December 6, 2013
“Plug loads consume 15-20% of electrical energy in U.S in office buildings . Tracking and visualizing this energy use, and providing effective controls through Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design, can save up to 40% of the energy used to power our desktop technologies [NBI 2012]. THE INTELLIGENT DASHBOARD™ – COMMUNICA-TION, CONSULTATION AND CONTROLS (C3) The Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University is developing an intelligent dashboard system (Figure 1.) with three strategies – self-monitoring, expert recommendations and individual controls – eventually to support controls for plug loads, lighting, heating, cooling and ventilation. For the plug load dashboard, CMU partnered with Plugwise™ to enable both energy tracking and remote control.”
Consortium Member(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Project contact: Ray Yun