Design of a new user centric home energy management system

Poor energy management has led to waste of electric power in homes, offices and factories thus leading to higher emission of greenhouse gases. Energy monitoring systems in the past are not enough anymore as they are not capable of adapting to lifestyles of home users. User centricity in energy management is significantly important in order to cater for comfort living. Earlier systems are highly dependent on user interaction; such as periodic monitoring of power consumption, and managing power hungry appliances manually, causing these systems to lose effectiveness in conserving power over time. Integration of appliance recognition into such systems did improve conventional systems but however, still required tedious appliance training by the user. This paper review past researches and propose the development of a new user centric home energy management system based on a framework that will eliminate assisted learning processes to achieve an intuitive power saving platform.