Home energy management (HEM) database : a list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US

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Pritoni, Marco and Ford, Rebecca and Karlin, Beth and Sanguinetti, Angela (2018) Home energy management (HEM) database : a list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US. Data in Brief, 16. pp. 71-74. ISSN 2352-3409 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.067)

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Abstract

Policymakers worldwide are currently discussing whether to include home energy management (HEM) products in their portfolio of technologies to reduce carbon emissions and improve grid reliability. However, very little data is available about these products. Here we present the results of an extensive review including 308 HEM products available on the US market in 2015–2016. We gathered these data from publicly available sources such as vendor websites, online marketplaces and other vendor documents. A coding guide was developed iteratively during the data collection and utilized to classify the devices. Each product was coded based on 96 distinct attributes, grouped into 11 categories: Identifying information, Product components, Hardware, Communication, Software, Information - feedback, Information - feedforward, Control, Utility interaction, Additional benefits and Usability. The codes describe product features and functionalities, user interaction and interoperability with other devices. A mix of binary attributes and more descriptive codes allow to sort and group data without losing important qualitative information. The information is stored in a large spreadsheet included with this article, along with an explanatory coding guide. This dataset is analyzed and described in a research article entitled “Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management” (Ford et al., 2017)

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Pritoni, Marco, Ford, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0820-8650, Karlin, Beth and Sanguinetti, Angela;
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