Energy Dashboards at De Montfort University

Dr Richard Bull

B y i t s n a t u r e , ‘ e n e r g y ’ i s a n a b s t r a c t a n d i n v i s i b l e f o r c e t h a t i s c o n c e p t u a l i s e d o r c o m m o n l y d e f i n e d i n a n u m b e r o f d i f f e r e n t w a y s , f o r e x a m p l e a s a c o m m o d i t y, a s a s o c i a l n e c e s s i t y, a s a n e c o l o g i c a l r e s o u r c e , o r a s a s t r a t e g i c m a t e r i a l . *

* B u r g e s s & N y e ( 2 0 0 8 ) , R e - m a t e r i a l i s i n g e n e r g y u s e t h r o u g h t r a n s p a r e n t m o n i t o r i n g s y s t e m s , E n e r g y

P o l i c y

2 research projects funded by

1. DUALL

2. Greenview

the aim? To understand the role of ICT in reducing energy consumption of a large scale public building through the design of an ICT interface connecting building users to their electricity consumption.

DUALL

BASELINE EVALUATION & SWITCH OFF

the aim?

To design a leading edge smart phone and web based application enabling building users to understand the energy consumption of the buildings across DMU.

TRANSPARENCY

The principle idea is to reveal the level of energy variations in near real time in precise university building locations using augmented reality tools on common smartphones.

EMPEDIA AND AUGMENTED REALITY

The Empedia (www.empedia.info) platform has been developed under a KTP agreement between De Montfort and Cuttlefish Multimedia for iphone and Android platforms. It will be enhanced with an Augmented reality browser for Greenview applications

Thank you for listening.Dr Richard Bullrbull@dmu.ac.ukgreenview.dmu.ac.uk