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Unplugg : A Cloud-based Home Energy Management Platform

The residential market represents an important part of the global energy consumption. However it is one of the hardest places to improve our energy efficiency. Several solutions exist with different approaches, however their adoption and results are suboptimal. We believe that this occurs due to the fragmentation of the solutions, up-front costs and a some lack of focus on the user experience. In this paper, we present a consumer centric, cloud-based Home Energy Management platform. Its aims are: to build the foundations of a hardware agnostic solution, supporting the main open data sources available and enlarging the potential interested consumer base; provide actionable metrics and consumption simulations that give insight to the user and help understand the impact of habits and choices; explore the potential of Internet of Things and cloud based energy management; and finally, to achieve in a marketready solution that can be sustainable and effectively drive change.