Towards Energy Smart Homes

Book excerpt: This book exemplifies how smart buildings have a crucial role to play for the future of energy. The book investigates what already exists in regards to technologies, approaches and solutions both with a scientific and technological point of view. The authors cover solutions for mirroring and tracing human activities, optimal strategies to configure home settings, and generating explanations and persuasive dashboards to get occupants better committed in their home energy managements. Solutions are adapted from the fields of Internet of Things, physical modeling, optimization, machine learning and applied artificial intelligence. Practical applications are given throughout: -Presents both theory and application on economic and social perspective of energy smart-homes; -Covers topics from smart grids and urban energetics to smart meters and Internet of Things; -Written by researchers from various communities including economy, building physics, control, artificial intelligence and informatics.