Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness
Reducing or optimizing electrical power consumption is one of the most fundamental goals within the current frameworks of smart energy management. This approach would be spread from the industrial plants, characterized by high consumptions often well distributed throughout the day, down to the domes...
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| author | Leopoldo Angrisani Francesco Bonavolontà Annalisa Liccardo Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello Francesco Serino |
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| description | Reducing or optimizing electrical power consumption is one of the most fundamental goals within the current frameworks of smart energy management. This approach would be spread from the industrial plants, characterized by high consumptions often well distributed throughout the day, down to the domestic utilities, typically discontinuous and with limited consumption at the single user level. More specifically, it is desirable for the latter case to be able to control in a simple and effective way the power consumption of typical household appliances by means of technologies that are already used and spread (such as tablets and smartphones) to become aware of their actual impact, both economic and environmental. To this aim, the authors present the proof-of-principle of user-friendly monitoring system for power consumption awareness based on the recent technologies of Internet of Things (IoT) and Augmented Reality (AR). In particular, common devices such as smartphones associated along with appropriate measurement nodes and a suitable app, developed to the purpose, allow consumers to view in AR environment electrical consumption of their domestic electrical loads to consciously decide whether to switch them off. Performance of both sensor nodes and AR environment were preliminarily assessed in either laboratory experiments or actual household context, highlighting the promising effectiveness of the proposed approach. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-794c4c23857941c998b13493a6e599502022-12-22T04:23:44ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732018-09-01119230310.3390/en11092303en11092303Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption AwarenessLeopoldo Angrisani0Francesco Bonavolontà1Annalisa Liccardo2Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello3Francesco Serino4Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, ItalyNexus Tlc, Via Salvo D’Acquisto 1, 80010 Quarto, ItalyReducing or optimizing electrical power consumption is one of the most fundamental goals within the current frameworks of smart energy management. This approach would be spread from the industrial plants, characterized by high consumptions often well distributed throughout the day, down to the domestic utilities, typically discontinuous and with limited consumption at the single user level. More specifically, it is desirable for the latter case to be able to control in a simple and effective way the power consumption of typical household appliances by means of technologies that are already used and spread (such as tablets and smartphones) to become aware of their actual impact, both economic and environmental. To this aim, the authors present the proof-of-principle of user-friendly monitoring system for power consumption awareness based on the recent technologies of Internet of Things (IoT) and Augmented Reality (AR). In particular, common devices such as smartphones associated along with appropriate measurement nodes and a suitable app, developed to the purpose, allow consumers to view in AR environment electrical consumption of their domestic electrical loads to consciously decide whether to switch them off. Performance of both sensor nodes and AR environment were preliminarily assessed in either laboratory experiments or actual household context, highlighting the promising effectiveness of the proposed approach.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/9/2303power measurementAugmented Realityconsumption awarenessIoT sensors |
| spellingShingle | Leopoldo Angrisani Francesco Bonavolontà Annalisa Liccardo Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello Francesco Serino Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness Energies power measurement Augmented Reality consumption awareness IoT sensors |
| title | Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness |
| title_full | Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness |
| title_fullStr | Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness |
| title_short | Smart Power Meters in Augmented Reality Environment for Electricity Consumption Awareness |
| title_sort | smart power meters in augmented reality environment for electricity consumption awareness |
| topic | power measurement Augmented Reality consumption awareness IoT sensors |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/9/2303 |
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