A prototype tool for automatically giving energy saving advice based on smart meter data

Panel: 4. Technology, products and systems

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Osamu Kimura, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan
Hidenori Komatsu, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan
Ken-ichiro Nishio, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan
Toshihiro Mukai, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan

Abstract

As many countries and regions have started large-scale deployment of smart meters, there is a growing amount of data on electricity use available for energy efficiency services. We have developed a novel tool that, based on smart meter data, automatically generates customised energy saving advice to commercial and industrial customers. This type of audit tool could enormously expand the target of energy audits to almost all small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with smart metering at a low cost per customer. In this paper, we explain the structure of and approaches that we used in our prototype tool, such as fault detection, energy disaggregation, social comparison and benchmarking, and selective visualisation. We also show test case results for the tool by using smart meter data from 35 public buildings in Japan.