When attempting to increase energy efficiency in buildings, the single most influential change you can make is to the behavior of the user. This is not about changing behaviors that will cause discomfort or inconvenience, huge gains can be made by simply making people aware of the energy they waste. There is no need to spend time and money on advanced artificial intelligence systems learn and to preempt your every move when providing humans with the information will achieve the same or more. Users can sense their environments, know their schedule, identify sources of discomfort or distraction, even foretell their future moods better than any smart occupancy tracking system but they know relatively little about their energy consumption. Rather than teach a computer to understand human behavior so it can identify energy inefficiencies, why not teach a human to understand how they consume energy so they can identify potential savings. It seems that this simple […]