A smart-phone application for home emissions estimates

Author

Rogers, Michelle M. ; Miller, Christopher J. ; McElmurry, Shawn P. ; Guoyao Xu ; Weisong Shi ; Yang Wang ; Caisheng Wang ; Cheng-Zhong Xu

Author_Institution

Michigan Dept. of Environ. Quality, Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

27-29 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A smartphone application has been created that provides consumers with real-time information about local air emissions resulting from their energy consumption. The purpose of the application is to provide information to enable consumers to consider emissions as they schedule their energy use. This tool provides one mechanism for demand-side optimization through optimal timing of energy use for environmental benefit. The application relies on a model that estimates air emission rates of user-selected pollutants based on real-time spatially accurate information on the electric grid. The development of this smartphone application, its potential use, and opportunities for future improvement are presented.

Keywords

air pollution; environmental science computing; mobile computing; power consumption; power engineering computing; power grids; smart phones; HERO application; Home Emissions Read-Out; air emission rate estimation; demand-side optimization; electric grid; energy consumption; energy use optimal timing; environmental benefit; home emissions estimates; real-time spatially accurate information; smart-phone application; user-selected pollutants; Databases; Manuals; electricity; emissions; household energy; locational marginal price; smart-phone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Computing Conference (IGCC), 2013 International

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGCC.2013.6604471

Filename

6604471