Influencing Consumer Behavior Modification with Utility Consumption Disaggregation

• US 20110066442A1
• Filed: 09/13/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Naphade, Milind R., Dai, Jing D., Ayachitula, Naga A., Sahu, Sambit, Chao, Tian-Jy
• Application Number:
  US12/880,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20110066442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method for performing utility consumption disaggregation includes measuring a total utility consumption of a consumer during a specified time period, generating a first disaggregated utility consumption segment and a second disaggregated utility consumption segment, based on the total utility consumption of the consumer, and providing the consumer with disaggregated utility consumption statistics based on at least one of the first and second disaggregated utility consumption segments.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium embodying instructions executed by a processor to perform a method for utility consumption disaggregation, comprising:

measuring a total utility consumption of a consumer during a specified time period;

generating a first disaggregated utility consumption segment and a second disaggregated utility consumption segment, based on the total utility consumption of the consumer; and

providing the consumer with disaggregated consumer utility consumption statistics based on at least one of the first and second disaggregated utility consumption segments.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising modifying behavior of the consumer based on the disaggregated consumer utility consumption statistics.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, further comprising generating group utility consumption statistics corresponding to a group of consumers similar to the consumer, wherein the group utility consumption statistics are generated based on a consumer profile corresponding to the consumer.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein modifying the behavior of the consumer comprises comparing the disaggregated consumer utility consumption statistics with the group utility consumption statistics.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising generating a suggestion for modifying behavior of the consumer based on a comparison of the disaggregated consumer utility consumption statistics and the group utility consumption statistics.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the total utility consumption includes one of water consumption or energy consumption.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the consumer includes a user.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, further comprising generating group utility consumption statistics corresponding to a group of users similar to the user, wherein the group utility consumption statistics are generated based on a user profile corresponding to the user, and the user profile includes at least one of a location of the user, a size of a home of the user, or a number of people living in the user'"'"'s home.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, further comprising:

generating a first category corresponding to the first disaggregated utility consumption segment, wherein the first category comprises first activity information, first fixture information, and first consumption information; and

generating a second category corresponding to the second disaggregated utility consumption segment, wherein the second category comprises second activity information, second fixture information, and second consumption information,

wherein the first and second categories are generated in response to additional information received from the user.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7, further comprising visually presenting the disaggregated consumer utility consumption statistics to the user.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the disaggregated consumer utility consumption statistics are visually presented using a chart, graph or outline.

12. A utility consumption disaggregation system, comprising:

a utility consumption recording component configured to measure a total utility consumption of a consumer during a specified period;

a utility consumption disaggregation component configured to generate a first disaggregated utility consumption segment and a second disaggregated utility consumption segment, based on the total utility consumption of the consumer;

a utility consumption statistics component configured to generate group utility consumption statistics corresponding to a group of consumers similar to the consumer, wherein the utility consumption statistics are generated based on a consumer profile corresponding to the consumer; and

a utility consumption recommendation component configured to generate a suggestion for modifying behavior of the consumer, based on a comparison of at least one of the first and second disaggregated utility consumption segments and the group utility consumption statistics.