Presentation made on esIoT 2012. This paper provides an overview of how Internet-connected objects can lead to a social change towards energy-efficiency in areas where people inhabit (cities, buildings or homes). For this aim it is proposed the use of social networks, like Twitter, as an interaction and communication channel between smart objects and human beings. The presented work demonstrates, by means of an experiment, how an augmented everyday object, i.e. a capsule-based coffee machine, may help to reduce the unnecessary consumed energy in electric appliances. The paper opens the discussion of the promising potential of combining people and future smart everyday objects teaming up to promote a more sustainable behaviour on the planet’s behalf.

1. Fighting against Vampire Appliances
through Eco-aware Things
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Juan Lopez-de-Armentia, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Diego Lopez-de-Ipina
DeustoTech - Deusto Institute of Technology, University of Deusto
http://www.morelab.deusto.es
July 4, 2012

2. Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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3. Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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4. Everything-connected era
New computational actors expressing feelings
Semantic models
Natural interaction channels
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5. Internet-connected objects contributions
Difficulty to ”sense” some information
CO2 particles
Energy consumption
...
Smart objects can help to ”sense” this information
The minimization of the energy leakage of everyday
appliances
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6. Communication channels
Interaction with smart everyday objects
Twitter social networking service
@Social Coffe
Smart objects and humans at the same communication layer
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7. Goal
”To demonstrate how augmented everyday objects may
contribute to the reduction of the energy consumption by
informing in a persuasive manner to concerned users about
the misuse of electronic appliances”
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8. Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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9. Electric Devices
Three categories of electric objects according to how they
operate
Continuously connected to the mains, e.g. the telephone
Not always connected to the mains, only when they are
operating, e.g. an iron
Although being switched off, they continue connected to the
electric grid in stand-by mode, the ”vampire mode”, e.g. a
TV or a coffee machine
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10. Vampire mode
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11. Previous approaches
1. Smart Everyday Objects
Xcoffee
2. Social Devices
Rymble, Botanicalls, Tweetjects
3. IoT for Green
Efergy eSocket, Wattson Solar, Plogg
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12. Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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13. Operational use modes
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14. Instrumentation
Dolce Gusto
Arduino platform + Ethernet Shield
Current sensor LEM AT 10 B5
P = V ∗ I; E = P ∗ t
Micro-SD
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15. Research Context
Research group composed of 30 members
Aware of the experiment, but not of the goal
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16. Research, step by step
How does the coffee machine operate?
Measurement of the consumed energy
Usage dataset generation
Detection of operational use modes and its energy implications
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17. Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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18. Results I
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19. Results II
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20. Outline
Introduction
Analysis of Related Work
Experimentation
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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21. Inspiring opportunities
Millions of connected objects consuming energy
Eco-aware connected things + human beings
Future work: analyse collected consumption dataset
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