The intelligent behavioral billing systems can help energy producers, distributors and consumers to be smarter in the use of energy saving costs while conserving vital energy resources.
Billing can be utilized by energy producer by allowing variable billing rates based on time, bundled packages, group rates, changes in consumption and other behavioral factors. In conjunction with smart wireless meter readers as IoT, the energy distributor can use behavioral billing by tracking the end consumer usage on a real time basis allowing billing to be performed with different rates depending on the time being consumed.
Affecting energy consumption of buildings considering different contexts, the effect of including data predictions and behavior patterns in the management of the building; the capability of the system for auto-assessment and auto-adjustment to changes in the context; and finally, the semantic perspective of technologies to translate data into a common language format considering related ontology.
The mobile crowd-based sensing techniques for gathering data from occupants’ devices, since this information will be able to complement the data obtained by the infrastructure-based system.
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