Energy Monitoring through Social Networks

Alrowaily, Majed Abdullah

Energy Monitoring through Social Networks

dc.contributor.advisor	Apperley, Mark
dc.contributor.author	Alrowaily, Majed Abdullah
dc.date.accessioned	2012-07-13T04:49:29Z
dc.date.available	2012-07-13T04:49:29Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.date.updated	2012-03-28T01:37:18Z
dc.description.abstract	Social networks play a significant role nowadays in changing people's behaviours. However, this is a fact of which only few of the energy monitoring system manufacturers have taken advantage. This thesis explores the use of social networking in monitoring and modifying household energy use. The results of this study indicate that providing real-time feedback reduces the energy usage of the consumers and further reductions in energy consumption can be gained by involving the consumers in a competition to keep overall consumption down. Also, they indicated that there might be a correlation between strong affinity and social relations among members of a community and the speed of change in people's conservation behaviour. This research contributes to a greater understanding of people's conservation behaviour. It is a part of a larger project (iDSLM project) aimed at providing techniques to better manage domestic electricity consumption without overtly affecting quality of life; this project involved developing a monitoring system on the Facebook platform to evaluate the influence of both real-time feedback and competition on changing consumers’ conservation behaviour (University of Waikato, 2011-2012).
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dc.identifier.citation	Alrowaily, M. A. (2012). Energy Monitoring through Social Networks (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6467	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6467
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Waikato
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dc.title	Energy Monitoring through Social Networks	en
dc.type	Thesis	en_NZ
pubs.place-of-publication	Hamilton, New Zealand	en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Waikato
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)