Improvement of Home Energy Awareness through the Designed Graphical User Interface

Abstract

The energy consumption in the dwellings continues with a steady increase which contributes to the overall consumption. Population growth, increasing comfort levels and daily usage of the electrical appliances are driving the domestic electricity demand to higher levels. For this reason, it is very crucial to aim domestic consumption in order to reduce the global consumption. This required changing and understanding consumers’ awareness, behavior, and increasing their knowledge in the subject of energy use. Providing that households are conscious about electricity consumption and studying factors affecting them can help to reduce energy consumption in residential areas. For this reason, a graphical user interface was created in this study in order to raise awareness of energy to consumers and thus reduce energy consumption. This study presents a graphical application for monitoring household consumption based on catalog data of various household devices to promote energy consumption awareness in the users of this application.