Knowledge management approach for saving home energy consumption

In order to save home energy consumption, this paper proposes an indirect control method. “Indirect” in this paper means that the system notifies users to control their life style and usage of home equipments. The basic idea is as follows: (1) Collect home energy consumption data with personal property including their life style by Web-based questionnaire, (2) Notify consumers their status of energy consumption in the same category homes when they disclose their consumed energy data, (3) Advise action for saving energy if one consumes energy much. This paper introduces how to implement the idea in a knowledge management system and discusses the issues to implement the idea. The feasibility test has also shown the possibility of the proposed method.