Estates and Operations. From Manatees to Smileys – How energy visualisation can work for you.
EAUC 2014 presentation on energy visualisation
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A copy of presentation given at the Environmental Association of Universities & College (EAUC) 2014 conference. It was presented with Richard Bull from De Montfort University and Neil Jennings from NUS. The presentation captured some of our work on presenting energy data in a way that is simple, fun and engaging to building users
Transcript of EAUC 2014 presentation on energy visualisation
Estates and Operations
From Manatees to Smileys – How energy visualisation can work
for you
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1. DUALL2. GREENVIEW3. SMARTSPACES4. NUS Student Switch-Off & SAVES
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Key challenges
1) Creative visualisations 2) Meaningful data
creative visualisation
Healthy buildings = happy animals
Quantifying Energy Performance
A building is happy when consumption is in the green zoneA building is neutral when consumption is in the yellow zoneA building is sad when consumption is in the red zone
Consumption (and normality) is dependent on ‘time of week’Most weeks are similar but all weeks are differentIt is possible to create a normal weekly profile
• Saving Energy in Europe’s Public Buildings Using ICT• 01/2012 – 12/2014• 11 pilot cities in 8 countries – 26 partners
– United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Serbia
http://www.smartspaces.eu
Interactive interface
Simplified performance indicator
http://smartspaces.dmu.ac.uk
Live, half-hourly feedback
http://smartspaces.dmu.ac.uk
Student switch off - energy display to date
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Challenges with current data
• Time between students performing an action and their awareness of the impact
• Time for energy manager to compile data and SSO team to analyse it
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Next Steps• University of Bristol SGF
project – linking in with success from University of British Columbia
• EU-funded project (SAVES)
University of Bristol & British Columbia
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EU-funded ‘saves’ project
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• 4 new countries running their own version of Student Switch Off
• 7 UK Unis (Bath, Cranfield, DMU, Northampton, QMUL, UWE and Worcester)• Online dashboard allowing competition between halls across Universities and
potentially twinning of halls• First pan-European student energy-saving competition
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Lesson learnt . . .
Engaging users (findings from DUALL):Difficult to engage already busy staff Even harder to get on-line engagement
Evaluation: Attributing behaviour change to such an intervention like Greenview is problematic (nb. picking up small changes, & issue of occupancy for example)Without senior commitment and sincere staff engagement and collaboration mere information provision in the form of dashboards is impotent.
Creative, but not too creative!Users still found numerical and easily understood representations of energy useful – especially in a Technology/Engineering buildingUsers wanted guidance for users to help them behave differently with regard to energy use (need for information provision). People want to compete!
Discussion
1. Do you have a dashboard, or are you currently looking into it?
2. Discuss your own experiences of engaging staff and students with energy dashboards?
3. What do you think are (or what have you found to be) the main barriers to behaviour change around energy saving behaviours?
4. In short – do you think they work, and do they have a future?
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Aha moment
• Simple behaviour changes can save up to 20% of a building’s energy consumption. This is worth doing!
• Need to be part of a wider behaviour change programme• They are not a ‘magic bullet’ but . . . A vital ‘tool’ in the energy saving
tool box!
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