scholarly journals Framing Smart Meter Feedback in Relation to Practice Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Mela ◽  
Juha Peltomaa ◽  
Marja Salo ◽  
Kirsi Mäkinen ◽  
Mikael Hildén
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Domestic Energy

Smart metering is advancing rapidly and consumption feedback from smart meters is expected to help residents to reduce their energy and water consumption. In recent years, more critical views have been expressed based on theories of social practice, arguing that smart meter feedback ignores the role of various mundane practices where energy and water are consumed and instead targets individuals as active decision-makers. We present a review of qualitative studies on smart meter feedback and results of a survey to European smart metering projects. We argue that theories of social practice can be used to reframe the challenges and potentials of smart meter feedback that have been identified in the literature and our survey. This presents challenges of smart meter feedback as resulting from normalised resource intensive practices rather than from uninterested and comfort-loving individuals. Potentials of improving the effectiveness of smart meter feedback relate to supporting communities and peer-learning and combining smart meter feedback with micro-generation of renewable energy. This has implications for how domestic energy and water consumption is targeted by policy.

scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Personal Innovativeness and Users Experience in Accepting the Smart Meter Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3297
Author(s):  
Gamal Alkawsi ◽  
Nor’ashikin Ali ◽  
Yahia Baashar
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Personal Innovativeness ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Moderating Role

The rapid development of smart technologies and data analytics empowers most industries to evolve their systems and introduce innovative applications. Consequently, smart metering technology, an internet of things-based application service, is diffusing rapidly in the energy sector. Regardless of its associated benefits, smart meters continue to struggle from consumers’ acceptance. To promote smart meters’ successful deployment, research is needed to better understand consumers’ acceptance of smart metering. Motivated by these concerns, a smart meter acceptance model is developed to evaluate the moderation role of experience and personal innovativeness factors among residential consumers. A cross-sectional research design was used in this study. Data were collected using a self-administrated questionnaire from 318 smart meters consumers who have had experience in using it. Hypothetical relationships were assessed and validated using partial least squares structural equation modelling. The empirical findings exert the moderating role of experience and personal innovativeness of smart meter acceptance that achieved an acceptable fit with the data, and specifically, five out of nine hypotheses were supported.

Smart Metering for Applications

2014 ◽  
Vol 960-961 ◽  
pp. 823-827
Author(s):  
Ying Pan ◽  
Bo Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Power Network ◽  
Energy Usage ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Energy Meter

As an important part of Smart Grid, smart metering attracts more and more attention all over the world. It is the way for energy consumer to sense the benefit of smart grid directly. Smart meter is an advanced energy meter that measures consumption of electrical energy providing additional information compared to a conventional energy meter. This paper discusses various applications and technologies that can be integrated with a smart meter. Smart meters can be used not only from the supply side monitoring but also for the demand side management as well. It plays an important role to monitor the performance and the energy usage of the grid loadings and power quality. In addition, This paper gives a comprehensive view on the benefit of smart metering in power network such as energy efficiency improvement.

scholarly journals Awareness and Acceptance in Using Smart Meter by Energy Customers in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (SI2) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
Siti Rashidah Mohd Nasir ◽  
Azmi Ibrahim ◽  
Rohana Hassan ◽  
Halilah Haron ◽  
Siti Hafizan Hassan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The Common ◽  
Open Access Article

The common issues of energy services related to customers’ complaints are delays in billing, inaccurate consumption measurement, lack of breakdown information, lack of real-time billing, and energy consumption.  A questionnaire survey was conducted using face-to-face methods during the pre-installation phase to determine the customers’ awareness, acceptance, knowledge, and benefits in using smart meters. The findings show that 69.6% of the customers are aware that the use of energy-efficient appliances can save electricity. This study shows that the customers, regardless of demographic profiles and background, portrayed overall good awareness of the smart metering and smart living concept.  Keywords: Awareness, Acceptance, Benefit, Smart Meter  eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5iSI2.2519.

scholarly journals Smart metering system data analytics platform using multicore edge computing

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Juan C. Olivares-Rojas ◽  
Enrique Reyes-Archundia ◽  
José A. Gutiérrez-Gnecchi ◽  
Ismael Molina-Moreno ◽  
Adriana C. Téllez-Anguiano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
System Data

The smart grid revolution has only been possible, thanks to the development and proliferation of smart meters. The increasingly growing computing capabilities for Internet of Things devices have made it possible for data to be processed directly from the devices where it is produced; this has been called edge computing. Edge computing is allowing the smart grid to become increasingly intelligent to solve problems that make electricity consumption more efficient and environmentally friendly. This work presents the implementation of a smart metering system that allows data analytics using a multiprocessing architecture directly on the smart meter. The results show that the development of smart meters with data analytics capabilities at the edge is a reality today, and the use of multiprocessing permits the improvement of data processing.

scholarly journals Smart Metering: A Better Way To Monitor Consumer Electricity Usage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Khatoon
Keyword(s):  
Cost Saving ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Market Survey ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Process Flow ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Complete Market

<div>This paper presents the development and implementation of a low-cost smart meter.</div><div>The smart meter is one of the major components of the distribution network. The</div><div>proposed low-cost smart meter is compared with already existing smart meters</div><div>deployed in the market. The comparison metrics involve cost, security, installation,</div><div>and lifetime. In this study, we have presented the market segment and the beachhead</div><div>market of the proposed product. The TAM size is calculated for better market</div><div>analysis by calculating the overall customer size. A complete proposed process flow</div><div>is explained for cost saving comparison, along with a complete market survey. In this</div><div>paper, the whole technology and hardware needed for the low-cost smart meter is</div><div>explained in detail along with the total cost of testing and installation.</div>

scholarly journals Long-term water conservation is fostered by smart meter-based feedback and digital user engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Cominola ◽  
Matteo Giuliani ◽  
Andrea Castelletti ◽  
Piero Fraternali ◽  
Sergio Luis Herrera Gonzalez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Engagement Interventions ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
Experimental Trials

AbstractConsumption-based feedback has been demonstrated to encourage water conservation behaviors. Smart meters and digital solutions can support customized feedback and reinforce behavioral change. Yet, most of the studies documenting water conservation effects induced by feedback and smart meter data visualization evaluate them in short-term experimental trials only. Here we show that water conservation behaviors promoted by smart meter-based consumption feedback and digital user engagement interventions might persist in the long term. We developed an analysis of 334 households in Valencia, Spain. We find that approximately 47% of the households engaged in our water conservation program achieved a long-term 8% reduction of volumetric water consumption, compared with pre-treatment observations. Water conservation behaviors persisted more than two years after the beginning of the program, especially for the households receiving sub-daily smart meter information. Our results provide empirical evidence that smart meter-based water consumption feedback and digital user engagement can effectively promote durable conservation behaviors.

scholarly journals Feasibility of using smart meter water consumption data and in-sewer flow observations for sewer system analysis: a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. S. V. Lund ◽  
J. K. Kirstein ◽  
H. Madsen ◽  
O. Mark ◽  
P. S. Mikkelsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Sewer System

Abstract Globally, smart meters measuring the water consumption with a high temporal resolution at the consumers' households are deployed at an increasing rate. In addition to their use for billing or leak detection purposes, smart meters may provide a detailed knowledge of the wastewater inflow to the sewer systems in space and time and open up for new types of system analyses aimed at closing the urban water balance. In this study, we first validate the smart meter data against other, independent water distribution data. Subsequently, we use a detailed hydrodynamic sewer system model to link the smart meter data from almost 2,000 consumers with in-sewer flow observations in order to simulate the wastewater component of the dry weather flow (DWF) and to identify potential anomalies. Results show that it is feasible to use smart meter data as input to a distributed urban drainage model, as the temporal dynamics of the model results and in-sewer flow observations match well. Furthermore, the study suggests that in-sewer flow observations may be subject to unrecognised uncertainties, which make them unsuitable for advanced investigations of the DWF composition, and this underlines the necessity of collecting data from independent sources. The study also exemplifies that digital system integration in the water sector may be complicated. However, overcoming these obstacles may improve both offline and real-time urban drainage management.

scholarly journals Who cares about the digital culture at school?

2021 ◽  
pp. 270-282
Author(s):  
Elisabete Cruz ◽  
Fernando Albuquerque Costa ◽  
Carolina Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Learning Area

The article assumes that the expansion of cultural content in basic education implies a qualitative change in the entire curriculum system. It rescues the idea of social micro spaces of common curriculum selection and reconfiguration and underlines the role of decision-makers in different groups. Namely, experts and specialists who, within the scope of the Learning Outcomes Project launched by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, supported the legitimation of ICT as a transdisciplinary learning area, consenting to shared responsibility in promoting digital culture. Based on the study carried out, involving 11 interviews, the article reveals the reasons that justify the detachment from a social practice that, paradoxically, was desired to be more articulated, integrated, and open to digital culture.

Energy Consumers' Perspectives on Smart Meter Data

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-260
Author(s):  
Jenifer Sunrise Winter
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Smart Metering ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Contextual Integrity ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Potential Problems

This chapter employs the framework of contextual integrity related to privacy developed by Nissenbaum as a tool to understand consumer response to implementation of residential smart metering technology. To identify and understand specific changes in information practices brought about by the introduction of smart meters, energy consumers were interviewed, read a description of planned smart grid/meter implementation, and were asked to reflect on changes in the key actors involved, information attributes, and principles of transmission. Areas where new practices emerge with the introduction of residential smart meters were then highlighted as potential problems (privacy violations). Issues identified in this study included concern about unauthorized use and sharing of personal data, data leaks or spoofing via hacking, the blurring distinction between the home and public space, and inferences made from new data types aggregated with other personal data that could be used to unjustly discriminate against individuals or groups.

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