Blueroof Research Cottage

Last Tuesday we (Ethan, Lucio and myself) visited the Blueroof Technologies model research cottage.

Our goal was to find out what the new house they're building is going to look like, specially in terms of the electric layout. We intend to deploy a general purpose data acquisition device to constantly monitor the current and voltage at the main feed of the house, and from there disaggregate the energy consumption of individual electrical appliances.

The fact that these houses have a massive deployment of sensors is attractive to us, because this will serve as a ground truth against which we can compare the effectiveness of our disaggregating algorithms. The scenario is similar to that of a blind man learning to see the world through his hands. Each time he makes a prediction of what the object he is holding is, he can rely on other people's judgment to improve his learning process.