Hi all,
UCL and the University of Oxford are carrying out a large national
programme of research into domestic energy use, called the Energy
Demand Observatory and Laboratory
As a first step we are testing different methods of collecting
information from heat pumps, homes and heat pump users. This is to
answer questions such as: Is heat pumps’ onboard monitored data
accurate and accessible? What are the best questions to ask heat pump
users to contextually understand heat pump performance?
We are looking to recruit a handful of Heat Pump Monitor participants
who are willing to share data with us.
Participants willing to share their heat pump data (Open Energy
Monitor, plus onboard monitored data if available), smart meter data
and internal temperature data (measured with kit provided by the
research team), and to be interviewed about their heat pump system,
will receive a £100 voucher as a thank you.
Participants who are able to provide heat pump data from both their
Open Energy Monitor and onboard monitored data but do not wish to
share smart meter, internal temperature or interview data will receive
a £50 voucher as a thank you.
Data will be stored and processed securely, and this study has been
approved by UCL Data Protection and UCL Ethics Committee.
If you are interested in helping out with any of the above, please
visit our website to leave your contact details.
Please also feel free to post links to ongoing topics and information on this topic from other threads on here below - or any other information that might be useful for public discussion.
Thank you so much!
Dr Jenny Crawley, University College London
Thank you @JennyCrawley! for others reading, Glyn and I have been in contact with Dr Jenny Crawley and the wider team at UCL and Oxford over the last few months and are keen to see collaboration around the data being collected on HeatpumpMonitor.org. There’s a wealth of data being collected on HeatpumpMonitor and I’m sure significant opportunities for more experienced academic analysis both in making sense of the data here and also making findings available for a wider audience. We are excited to be able to help with this!
We would also like to thank @JennyCrawley and the team for the generous voucher being offered to anyone happy to participate in this particular research question.
Thank you so much, Glyn and Trystan, for supporting this.
I think that for most research questions, 10-minutely data will be fine assuming that this is possible for participants to extract. If we want to look at things like defrost then we will collect a subset of 1-minutely data over winter.
csv format would be great if possible.
Part of this pilot study is simply working out how to collect the data and what doesn’t cause too much trouble for participants whilst being manageable for us, so thank you for kicking off the discussion.
Having participated in a similar evaluation for the SmartHTC energy modelling software I would suggest.
Manual file upload facility, CSV format, maybe daily to keep file sizes manageable. Everyone should be able to provide data like this.
A file upload API . This is my preferred alternative, then I just need to knock up a simple file uploader my end, this is what was done for SmartHTC. Once set off I don’t need to remember to do something every day, so data collection should be more reliable.
Thanks everyone for your really helpful suggestions and to those who have already left their details on our form, that’s amazing. As you can probably tell, I am quite new to the world of heat pump monitoring, all my experience being from analysing heat pump data when someone else has already collected it - turns out I was doing the easy bit!
Il try and pull out more recent data on a Vaillant we’ve been monitoring and think through what I can provide, this was the first few days Vaillant inbuilt monitoring vs MID meters - #71 by TrystanLea . Im not logging data in any detail from the in-built monitoring but I can compare daily/weekly/monthly totals as read from the app with the more granular data being recorded by the MID meters…
