AbstractsEngineering

Big data insights into energy and resource usage in the Live-in Lab apartments

by Elisabeth Danielsson




Institution: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Department:
Year: 2016
Keywords: Engineering and Technology; Mechanical Engineering; Teknik och teknologier; Maskinteknik
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2106076
Full text PDF: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190829


Abstract

This report aims to find ways of getting insights into energy and resource usage in a home with big data, based on the project Live-in Lab. Live-in Lab is a project that aims to increase the innovation pace in the building and construction sector when developing environmental technology. This is done by conducting implementation and research at the same time in a living lab that will be the home of about 300 students. The main objectives of this report is to find out what is possible to measure in the apartments that is related to energy, with what technologies and how the data can be analyzed to generate maximal insight and utility. The methodology used originates from the field of product realization. A literature study was carried out to learn more about energy usage in a home, big data and state of the art of similar projects as well as available technologies that can be used to collect data with. The technologies were investigated in four different levels; Social data and IoT, Infrastructure mediated systems, Direct environment components and Wearable devices. The result comprises eleven purposed solutions that get insights in patterns of water consumption, ventilation, light, movements inside and outside the apartment, consumption patterns among others. To be able to get maximal insights and utility it was studied how the purposed solutions could be combined. At the end, aspects of ethics were discussed as well as what data and information that possibly could be shared with a third party. Since the collected data might contain sensitive information about the residents the aspects of ethics and security is important. The solutions and the report was discussed with one of the stakeholders, Schneider Electric. They were able to share some additional perspective of big data in living labs, such as what third parties that might be interested in Live-in Lab, what solutions that are possible to combine, the importance of having a simple system of technology and the importance of maximising the insights from the collected data instead of collecting a lot of separate data. ; Syftet med den här rapporten är att med hjälp av big data få inblick i energi- och resursanvändning i hemmet, baserat på projektet Live-in Lab. Live-in Lab är ett projekt med syftet att påskynda innovationstakten i byggnadssektorn vid utveckling av miljötekniska produkter och tjänster. Detta görs genom att implementera och forska samtidigt i ett living lab som kommer innefatta lägenheter åt cirka 300 studenter. Huvudmålet med den här rapporten är att ta reda på vad som är möjligt att mäta i lägenheterna som är relaterat till energi, vilka tekniker kan användas och hur datan kan analyseras för att generera maximal inblick och användbarhet. Metoden som används för det här projektet har sitt ursprung från…