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Title: Using Wireless Power Meters to Measure Energy Use of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings

Abstract

Miscellaneous and electronic devices consume about one-third of the primary energy used in U.S. buildings, and their energy use is increasing faster than other end-uses. Despite the success of policies, such as Energy Star, that promote more efficient miscellaneous and electronic products, much remains to be done to address the energy use of these devices if we are to achieve our energy and carbon reduction goals. Developing efficiency strategies for these products depends on better data about their actual usage, but very few studies have collected field data on the long-term energy used by a large sample of devices due to the difficulty and expense of collecting device-level energy data. This paper describes the development of an improved method for collecting device-level energy and power data using small, relatively inexpensive wireless power meters. These meters form a mesh network based on Internet standard protocols and can form networks of hundreds of metering points in a single building. Because the meters are relatively inexpensive and do not require manual data downloading, they can be left in the field for months or years to collect long time-series energy use data. In addition to the metering technology, we also describe a field protocolmore » used to collect comprehensive, robust data on the miscellaneous and electronic devices in a building. The paper presents sample results from several case study buildings, in which all the plug-in devices for several homes were metered, and a representative sample of several hundred plug-in devices in a commercial office building were metered for several months.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
OSTI Identifier:
1050720
Report Number(s):
LBNL-4892E
TRN: US201218%%918
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL) 2011 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 24-26, 2011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; APPLIANCES; CARBON; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERNET; METERING; METERS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; POWER METERS; Meters, Wireless, Power, Energy Use, Electronic Devices, Buildings, end-use metering, advanced meters, load research, wireless networking

Citation Formats

UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA, Brown, Richard, Lanzisera, Steven, Cheung, Hoi Ying, Lai, Judy, Jiang, Xiaofan, Dawson-Haggerty, Stephen, Taneja, Jay, Ortiz, Jorge, and Culler, David. Using Wireless Power Meters to Measure Energy Use of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA, Brown, Richard, Lanzisera, Steven, Cheung, Hoi Ying, Lai, Judy, Jiang, Xiaofan, Dawson-Haggerty, Stephen, Taneja, Jay, Ortiz, Jorge, & Culler, David. Using Wireless Power Meters to Measure Energy Use of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings. United States.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA, Brown, Richard, Lanzisera, Steven, Cheung, Hoi Ying, Lai, Judy, Jiang, Xiaofan, Dawson-Haggerty, Stephen, Taneja, Jay, Ortiz, Jorge, and Culler, David. 2011. "Using Wireless Power Meters to Measure Energy Use of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1050720.
@article{osti_1050720,
title = {Using Wireless Power Meters to Measure Energy Use of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings},
author = {UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA and Brown, Richard and Lanzisera, Steven and Cheung, Hoi Ying and Lai, Judy and Jiang, Xiaofan and Dawson-Haggerty, Stephen and Taneja, Jay and Ortiz, Jorge and Culler, David},
abstractNote = {Miscellaneous and electronic devices consume about one-third of the primary energy used in U.S. buildings, and their energy use is increasing faster than other end-uses. Despite the success of policies, such as Energy Star, that promote more efficient miscellaneous and electronic products, much remains to be done to address the energy use of these devices if we are to achieve our energy and carbon reduction goals. Developing efficiency strategies for these products depends on better data about their actual usage, but very few studies have collected field data on the long-term energy used by a large sample of devices due to the difficulty and expense of collecting device-level energy data. This paper describes the development of an improved method for collecting device-level energy and power data using small, relatively inexpensive wireless power meters. These meters form a mesh network based on Internet standard protocols and can form networks of hundreds of metering points in a single building. Because the meters are relatively inexpensive and do not require manual data downloading, they can be left in the field for months or years to collect long time-series energy use data. In addition to the metering technology, we also describe a field protocol used to collect comprehensive, robust data on the miscellaneous and electronic devices in a building. The paper presents sample results from several case study buildings, in which all the plug-in devices for several homes were metered, and a representative sample of several hundred plug-in devices in a commercial office building were metered for several months.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1050720}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
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