Abstract This paper reports on the different engineering, social and financial challenges behind the building and deploying electric energy monitoring and eco-feedback technology in real-world scenarios, which despite being relevant to the research community are seldom reported in the literature. The objectives of this paper are two-fold: First, discuss the technical and social constraints of real-world deployments. This includes, for example, hardware and software requirements, and issues related to security and intrusiveness of the monitoring solutions. Second, identify and understand the costs associated with developing and deploying such systems. These include hardware costs and consumed energy. To this end, we rely on over five years of experience developing and improving a non-intrusive energy monitoring research platform to enable the deployment of long and short-term studies of eco-feedback technology. During this time, two versions of that platform were deployed in 50 homes for periods that lasted between 6 and 18 consecutive months. By iteratively developing and deploying our sensing and eco-feedback infrastructures, we managed to build upon previous findings and lessons learned to understand how to create, deploy, and maintain such systems. Concurrently, we gained insights regarding what are some of the most relevant costs associated with running such experiments.

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了解在野外部署能源监测和生态反馈技术的实际问题：从三个长期部署中吸取的教训

摘要 本文报告了在现实世界场景中构建和部署电能监测和生态反馈技术背后的不同工程、社会和财务挑战，尽管与研究界相关，但文献中很少报道。本文的目标有两个：首先，讨论现实世界部署的技术和社会限制。例如，这包括硬件和软件要求，以及与监控解决方案的安全性和侵入性相关的问题。其次，确定并了解与开发和部署此类系统相关的成本。这些包括硬件成本和消耗的能源。为此，我们依靠超过五年的开发和改进非侵入式能源监测研究平台的经验来部署生态反馈技术的长期和短期研究。在此期间，该平台的两个版本在 50 个家庭中部署了连续 6 到 18 个月的时间。通过迭代开发和部署我们的传感和生态反馈基础设施，我们设法建立在以前的发现和经验教训的基础上，以了解如何创建、部署和维护此类系统。同时，我们深入了解了与运行此类实验相关的一些最相关的成本。该平台的两个版本在 50 个家庭中部署了连续 6 到 18 个月的时间。通过迭代开发和部署我们的传感和生态反馈基础设施，我们设法建立在以前的发现和经验教训的基础上，以了解如何创建、部署和维护此类系统。同时，我们深入了解了与运行此类实验相关的一些最相关的成本。该平台的两个版本在 50 个家庭中部署了连续 6 到 18 个月的时间。通过迭代开发和部署我们的传感和生态反馈基础设施，我们设法建立在以前的发现和经验教训的基础上，以了解如何创建、部署和维护此类系统。同时，我们深入了解了与运行此类实验相关的一些最相关的成本。