| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 262740 | Energy and Buildings | 2014 | 8 Pages |
•To design and build smart cities is as important as to shape a smart citizenship.•A home management system based on documentation rather than on automation.•New framework brings the user back at the center of home management.•An archive of energy performance comfort condition and people behavior in the house.•A timeline provides the user with a high level of awareness on its home performance.
The introduction of digital technology into home management is historically connected with home automation: systems are built to serve the user, who is considered satisfied if he does not have to worry about them.This paper will explore a different path whereby the user is highly involved in home management and uses a careful strategy based on highly efficient passive building behavior developed in the context of the Solar Decathlon competition, within the MED in Italy prototype.This strategy relies on a web-based “Dwelling Black Box”, in which all data on house behavior are sent to and saved on a database, building a timeline of houseliving aimed at raising the inhabitants’ awareness and consequences of their actions. The interface was developed with two focuses in particular: a 3D web interface, based on WebGL open standard, and integration into a content management framework, allowing multiple houses to be investigated as nodes of a social network of homes, so that behavior and performance data can be compared and exchanged. The whole is aimed at returning to the contemporary context the awareness and know-how of our grandmothers, who knew very well how to operate their homes: from “domotics” to “grandmothics”.
