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.
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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy) |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Publication date | 2015 |
Pages | 77-81 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-3609-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | ACM Sixth International Conference on Future Energy Systems - Bangalore, Bangalore, India Duration: 14. Jul 2015 → 17. Jul 2015 |
Conference
Conference | ACM Sixth International Conference on Future Energy Systems |
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Location | Bangalore |
Country/Territory | India |
City | Bangalore |
Period | 14/07/2015 → 17/07/2015 |
Keywords
- Assessable methods
- Buildings
- Energy efficiency
- Energy informatics