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Smart, social energy: Can software change our energy habits?

Published: 8 November 2012
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Professor Nick Jennings features in a BBC online article demonstrating his software to identify those in offices who use the most energy.

How can businesses save energy? Professor Nick Jennnings and his research team are testing out smart energy software with his postgrad students, who have signed up as guinea pigs.

Their workstation areas, equipped with power-hungry gear, are rigged up to a central database which then displays a league of shame on a monitor.

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