Conceptual modeling of the impact of smart cities on household energy consumption

Nasrin Khansari, Ali Mostashari, Mo Mansouri

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    Abstract

    Smart cities provide citizens with information on various urban services and allow them to track the impact of their resource consumption on the overall sustainability of their city The premise of smart cities is that with improved access to information on resource consumption, residents make better use of those resources, resulting in increased sustainability of the city This paper explores the influence of the smart city technologies on individuals' resource consumption behavior, in particular on energy consumption, aiming at achieving environmentally sustainable development This approach combines systems thinking with existing social science theories, such as cognitive and learning theories, to explore the impact of smart city information on individual decision-making and behavioral change Using a CLIOS (complex, large-scale, interconnected, open, and sociotechnical) model, a conceptual soft systems model, the paper explores the impact of smart city technologies on behavioral change of households with regards to energy consumption

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)81-86
    Number of pages6
    JournalProcedia Computer Science
    Volume28
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2014
    Event12th Annual Conference on SystemsEngineering Research, CSER 2014 - Redondo Beach, CA, United States
    Duration: 21 Mar 201422 Mar 2014

    Keywords

    • Behavior Change
    • CLIOS Model
    • Conceptual Systems Model
    • Energy Behavior
    • Information and Communication Technology
    • Smart city

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