The University of California at San Diego Energy Dashboard
allows users to see up-to-the-second information on a structure-
by-structure basis for 60 of the largest buildings on the La
Jolla, California, campus. The data is provided by UC San Diego
Physical Plant Services from over 200 energy meters providing
energy usage at the building level. The portal also features
information coming from roughly 40 individual power meters that
measure energy consumption in the office, e.g., a computer and
monitor drawing power from a single socket. A denser deployment
of meters, which would measure and display individuals' energy
use, is currently under planning and development. The Energy
Dashboard grew out of a simple premise. "If you cannot measure
energy use, you will not be able to make much headway in
reducing your energy footprint," said Yuvraj Agarwal, a Research
Scientist in the Jacobs School of Engineering's Computer Science
and Engineering (CSE) department. "Energy models of buildings
are decades old, and nobod