GREENHOME: A Household Energy Consumption and CO ₂ Footprint Metering Environment

Abstract

This article presents the GREENHOME environment, a toolkit providing several data analytical tools for metering household energy consumption and CO 2 footprint under different perspectives. GREENHOME enables a multi-perspective analysis of household energy consumption and CO 2 footprint using and combining several variables through various statistics and data mining algorithms. To test GREENHOME, the article reports on experiments conducted for modelling and forecasting energy consumption and CO 2 footprint in the context of the Triple-A European project.

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