Today I gave a seminar to the BCIT Building Science Graduate Program faculty and masters students. It was a one hour presentation with a half-hour discussion session. Here is the abstract:
Home automation is often seen as the cornerstone of the smart home and the smart meter is often heralded as the key component supporting energy displays that can notify home occupants of their energy usage. However, they are not. Home automation allows for remote access to sensor and actuators within a home and the rudimentary automation of them through a calendaring system and a set of rigid rules. A smart meter is only a digital power meter with enhanced communications capabilities. These systems are not actually smart. We need to look beyond home automation and the smart meter. We need to define what intelligence is needed to actually make a home and a power meter smart.
The meeting was well attended and we had some very good discussion. Well back to thesis writing….
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Dr. Stephen Makonin is an Adjunct Professor in Engineering Science and the Principal Investigator of the Computational Sustainability Lab at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He received his PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in 2014 in the area of computational sustainability. He has been a software engineer for over 24 years working for various local/international industry clients. Stephen is a registered Professional Engineering (PEng) with Engineers and Geoscientists BC and a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests include computational sustainability and the understanding of socioeconomic issues that pertain to technological advancement. Stephen is an expert in data engineering, software engineering, and a world-renowned researcher in non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and disaggregation. Stephen is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Vancouver Chapter and sits on the IEEE DataPort Advisory Committee. He currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE DataPort Metadata Review Board, and as an Editorial Board Member of Nature's Scientific Data journal.
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