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A user centric approach to the development and testing of a home energy management system
The development and small scale field trial in Flanders of a home energy management system is presented. During the development, a user-centric approach was used to create interaction between developers and possible end-users in a living lab setting. This allowed actively addressing people’s needs and wants in the development process and testing the system in their homes. The preliminary results of the field trial indicate a high usage during the starting week, which gradually slows down over the weeks that follow. Usage of the different elements in the system varies over the weeks but a consistent “top 3” of elements remains. Dynamic pricing is used by a small but consistent part of the participants. They actively adapt their appliance usage to these prices
A user centric approach to the development and testing of a home energy management system
The development and small scale field trial in Flanders of a home energy management system is presented.
During the development, a user-centric approach was used to create interaction between developers and
possible end-users in a living lab setting. This allowed actively addressing people’s needs and wants in the
development process and testing the system in their homes. The preliminary results of the field trial indicate
a high usage during the starting week, which gradually slows down over the weeks that follow. Usage of the
different elements in the system varies over the weeks but a consistent “top 3” of elements remains.
Dynamic pricing is used by a small but consistent part of the participants. They actively adapt their
appliance usage to these prices.status: publishe