Jesus Manuel Avila Ramirez

Ms. Jesus Manuel Avila Ramirez

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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10 June 2021 in Energies
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JRJesus Manuel Avila Ramirez
Jesus Manuel Avila Ramirez
JMJuana Isabel Méndez
Juana Isabel Méndez
Pedro PoncePedro Ponce
Pedro Ponce
TPTherese Peffer
Therese Peffer
AMAlan Meier
Alan Meier
Arturo MolinaArturo Molina
Arturo Molina
Nowadays, the growth in the consumption of energy and the need to face pollution resulting from its generation are causing concern for consumers and providers. Energy consumption in residential buildings and houses is about 22% of total energy production. Cutting-edge energy managers aim to optimize electrical devices in homes, taking into account users’ patterns, goals, and needs, by creating energy consumption awareness and helping current change habits. In this way, energy manager systems (EMSs) monitor and manage electrical appliances, automate and schedule actions, and make suggestions regarding electrical consumption. Furthermore, gamification strategies may change energy consumption patterns through energy managers, which are seen as an option to save energy and money. Therefore, this paper proposes a personalized gamification strategy for an EMS through an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) decision-making engine to classify the level of electrical consumption and persuade the end-user to reduce and modify consumption patterns, saving energy and money with gamified motivations. These strategies have proven to be effective in changing consumer behavior with intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. The interfaces consider three cases for summer and winter periods to calculate the saving-energy potentials: (1) for a type of user that is interested in home-improvement efforts while helping to save energy; (2) for a type of user that is advocating to save energy; (3) for a type of user that is not interested in saving energy. Hence, each interface considers the end-user’s current consumption and the possibility to modify their consumption habits using their current electrical devices. Finally, an interface displaying the electrical consumption for each case exemplifies its linkage with EMSs.

31 July 2020
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JRJesus Manuel Avila Ramirez
Jesus Manuel Avila Ramirez
Pedro PoncePedro Ponce
Pedro Ponce
Arturo MolinaArturo Molina
Arturo Molina
KRKatya Romo
Katya Romo