PlaceLab- A Live-In Laboratory

Data Collection– Only electric current information– 37 different electrical circuits fitted with current sensors– Circuits are divided into residential spaces and residential appliances

PlaceLab- A Live-In Laboratory

Data Analysis– A Couple lived in the PlaceLab for 10 weeks– One day analysis– Annotation

• Video analysis of usage, movement and behavior patterns – Current analysis

• Of each individual appliance/device’s energy consumption

Analysis ToolHandlense sensor visualization tool

–Developed at House_n

Unused lights & Devices

Vampire power sources

A Long-Term Evaluation of Sensing Modalitiesfor Activity Recognition

Conditions

• Married couple, ages 29 and 31

• Lived in PlaceLab for 15 days

• Male wore RFID bracelet

• 104 hours of data manually annotated (by sociology student)