The case for apportionment
Simon Hay and Andrew Rice. The case for apportionment. In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2009, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009).
Apportioning the total energy consumption of a building or organisation to individual users may provide incentives to make reductions. We explore how sensor systems installed in many buildings today can be used to apportion energy consumption between users. We investigate the differences between a number of possible policies to evaluate the case for apportionment based on energy and usage data collected over the course of a year. We also study the additional possibilities offered by more fine-grained data with reference to case studies for specific shared resources, and discuss the potential and challenges for future sensor systems in this area.