Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain
In the push to develop smart energy systems, designers have increasingly focused on systems that measure and predict user behavior to effect optimal energy consumption. While such focus is an important component in these systems' success, designers have paid substantially less attention to the...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
| Published: |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2013
|
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81790 |
| _version_ | 1826193974290808832 |
|---|---|
| author | Cummings, M. L. Thornburg, Kristopher M. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Cummings, M. L. Thornburg, Kristopher M. |
| author_sort | Cummings, M. L. |
| collection | MIT |
| description | In the push to develop smart energy systems, designers have increasingly focused on systems that measure and predict user behavior to effect optimal energy consumption. While such focus is an important component in these systems' success, designers have paid substantially less attention to the people on the other side of the energy system loop-the supervisors of power generation processes. Smart energy systems that leverage pervasive computing could add to these supervisory control operators' workload. They'll have to predict possible power plant load and production changes caused by environmental and plant events, as well as dynamic system adaptation in response to consumer behaviors. Contrary to many assumptions, inserting more automation, including distributed sensors and algorithms to postprocess data, won't necessarily reduce operators' workload or improve system performance. |
| first_indexed | 2024-09-23T09:48:35Z |
| format | Article |
| id | mit-1721.1/81790 |
| institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| language | en_US |
| last_indexed | 2024-09-23T09:48:35Z |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | mit-1721.1/817902022-09-30T16:56:32Z Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain Cummings, M. L. Thornburg, Kristopher M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Humans and Automation Lab Cummings, M. L. Thornburg, Kristopher M. In the push to develop smart energy systems, designers have increasingly focused on systems that measure and predict user behavior to effect optimal energy consumption. While such focus is an important component in these systems' success, designers have paid substantially less attention to the people on the other side of the energy system loop-the supervisors of power generation processes. Smart energy systems that leverage pervasive computing could add to these supervisory control operators' workload. They'll have to predict possible power plant load and production changes caused by environmental and plant events, as well as dynamic system adaptation in response to consumer behaviors. Contrary to many assumptions, inserting more automation, including distributed sensors and algorithms to postprocess data, won't necessarily reduce operators' workload or improve system performance. 2013-10-25T18:24:55Z 2013-10-25T18:24:55Z 2011-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1536-1268 1558-2590 INSPEC Accession Number: 11704510 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81790 Cummings, Mary L, and K M Thornburg. “Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain.” IEEE Pervasive Computing 10, no. 1 (January 2011): 58-62. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2011.7 IEEE Pervasive Computing Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Cummings, M. L. Thornburg, Kristopher M. Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain |
| title | Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain |
| title_full | Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain |
| title_fullStr | Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain |
| title_short | Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain |
| title_sort | paying attention to the man behind the curtain |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81790 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT cummingsml payingattentiontothemanbehindthecurtain AT thornburgkristopherm payingattentiontothemanbehindthecurtain |