Overview of Existing and Future Residential Use Cases for Connected Thermostats

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1345792· OSTI ID:1345792

Rotondo, Julia ^[1]; Johnson, Robert ^[1]; Gonzalez, Nancy ^[1]; Waranowski, Alexandra ^[1]; Badger, Chris ^[2]; Lange, Nick ^[2]; Goldman, Ethan ^[2]; Foster, Rebecca ^[2]

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1. Energetics Inc., Washington, DC (United States)
2. Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Burlington, VT (United States)

This paper is intended to help inform future technology deployment opportunities for connected thermostats (CTs), based on investigation and review of the U.S. residential housing and CT markets, as well as existing, emerging, and future use cases for CT hardware and CT-generated data. The CT market has experienced tremendous growth over the last 5 years—both in terms of the number of units sold and the number of firms offering competing products—and can be characterized by its rapid pace of technological innovation. Despite many assuming CTs would become powerful tools for increasing comfort while saving energy, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the actual energy and cost savings that are likely to be realized from deployment of CTs, particularly under different conditions.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1345792
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2016/760; ORNL/SR-2016/760
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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