Saving energy through collaborative eco-aware everyday things

The reduction of energy waste in any of its forms and everywhere is a major challenge of our society. An important proportion of such waste is due to the misuse of consumer appliances of shared use in public areas (computers, printers, coffee makers, etc.). To face this issue, we have transformed everyday consumer devices into collaborative Eco-aware everyday things. The presented work contributes with a first approach to reduce the learning time of Eco-aware objects to perform accurate predictions. The general idea is to enable a platform where Eco-aware appliances interchange their collected usage pattern in a cooperative manner to reduce energy wasting in order to alleviate the cold-start problem for new coming Eco-aware appliances. To this end, we have simulated a collaboration between two of these appliances, leading to an energy reduction regarding non-collaborative objects.