Challenge: Advancing Energy Informatics to Enable Assessable Improvements of Energy Performance in Buildings

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Abstract

Within the emerging discipline of Energy Informatics people are
researching, developing and applying information and
communication technologies, energy engineering and computer
science to address energy challenges. In this paper we discuss the
challenge of advancing energy informatics to enable assessable
improvements of energy performance in buildings. This challenge
follows a long-standing goal within the built environment to
develop processes that enable predictable outcomes.
Implementing this goal in the research framework of energy
informatics creates a need for establishing a new underlying
assumption, which states that the impact of energy informatics
solutions should be assessable. This assumption applies to
particular building contexts and when solutions act
simultaneously. Research based on this assumption will enable
new sound processes for the built environment facilitating
informed decision for adding intelligent solutions to buildings
compared to only favoring passive building improvements.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy)
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication date2015
Pages77-81
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-3609-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventACM Sixth International Conference on Future Energy Systems - Bangalore, Bangalore, India
Duration: 14. Jul 201517. Jul 2015

Conference

ConferenceACM Sixth International Conference on Future Energy Systems
LocationBangalore
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityBangalore
Period14/07/201517/07/2015

Keywords

  • Assessable methods
  • Buildings
  • Energy efficiency
  • Energy informatics

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