Earth Notes: General Bibliography (sachs2012programmable)
General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset
- [sachs2012programmable] Sachs, O and Tiefenbeck, V and Duvier, C and Qin, A and Cheney, K et al. Field Evaluation of Programmable Thermostats (accessed ), , , report/number DOE/GO-102012-3804, doi:10.2172/1059166, also at (techreport) (BibTeX).
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Prior research suggests that poor programmable thermostats usability may prevent their effective use to save energy. We hypothesized that home occupants with a high-usability thermostats would be more likely to use them to save energy than people with a basic thermostat. We randomly installed a high-usability thermostat in half the 77 apartments of an affordable housing complex, installing a basic thermostat in the other half. During the heating season, we collected space temperature and furnace on-off data to evaluate occupant interaction with the thermostats, foremost nighttime setbacks. We found that thermostat usability did not influence energy-saving behaviors, finding no significant difference in temperature maintained among apartments with high- and low-usability thermostats.