A system with a holistic view and the potential for social incentives
    一个具备全局观点的系统和对社会激励的潜力

    While SmartMeters can accurately monitor a home’s total power consumption over time, a more granular approach both empowers and encourages its owners to take actions that can have a real impact, the HP team believes.
    虽然智能电表可以准确地监测家庭的总能耗，但惠普相信，一个更精确的、允许和鼓励业主采取自发行动的方法具有更大的影响力。

    As implemented, the prototype HP service measured electricity use as well as room temperatures and, in some cases, the energy produced by solar power installations. But it wouldn’t be hard to add other measures such as water and natural gas consumption, Lyons says.
    这个惠普提供的服务原型可以测量电力消耗和室温，并在某些情况下，测量太阳能装置所产生的电能。而且要增加其他测量项目也不难，比如增加水和天然气的消耗量，Lyons说。

    "When you get this kind of holistic view," she suggests, "things get interesting.  People don’t really understand if they should do their dishes by hand or use the dishwasher, for example. This could help them answer those questions better."
    “当你获得一个全局视角时，”她解释，“事情将变得有趣。例如，人们并不真正了解他们应该用手洗碗还是用洗碗机。而这一服务将可以帮助他们更好的回答这类问题。”

    "This kind of service also lends itself to the world of competitive social incentives and reputation building," adds Lyons.  "For example, you could earn a badge based on validated behavioral change that says you’ve reduced your energy consumption by 20%, say, that you could display on a site like Facebook.  That’s also likely to increase the chance that you’ll act on the specific, appliance-level advice that we’re able to give you."
    “这类服务还可以帮助人们在互联网上推广节能，进行社交激励，并建立声望，”Lyons补充说。“例如，你将因为被验证的行为改变而获得一枚节能勋章，比如你的家庭能耗减少了20%，而你可以这个把这个勋章显示在某个网站上，例如微博或开心网。这也会促使人们更多的按照我们的专业建议来行事。

    The increasing importance of energy consumption management
    能耗管理的重要性日益增加

    In the near term, the HP researchers envision several kinds of consumers being interested in a service like the HP Home Energy Manager: the budget conscious, for example, as well as environmentally conscious customers and early-adopting gadget lovers who enjoy being the first to try out new technologies.
    面对不久的未来，惠普家用能源管理系统服务将会激发消费者们的兴趣，比如那些有预算意识或环保意识的客户们，以及那些喜欢最早尝试新技术的勋章控们。

    It’s likely, however, that ever-rising fuel prices will keep utility rates climbing. If that happens, reducing consumption is liable to become a priority for a substantial majority of utility customers.
    那些不断上涨的燃料价格将会导致水、电、气费的继续攀升。如果这一情况发生，减少消耗将会是大多数客户所考虑的首要问题。
   

    Such a scenario would also likely see utilities increasing their use of differential pricing – where they charge a premium for power used in periods of peak demand.  In that case, says Lyons, a system-wide installation of a service like the HP Home Manager would let utilities offer their customers both clear information and powerful incentives to run power-hungry appliances at specific times.
    这种情况也将会导致公共事业费的差别使用定价的增长——在使用高峰期的费用会更高。这种情况下，Lyons说，在整个系统范围内安装类似惠普家用能源管理系统这样的服务，将让公共事业单位为他们的客户提供明确的信息和强有力的刺激，以促使他们在特别的时间运行更耗电的设备。
  

    Even today, she notes, "there are limits to how much electricity utilities can produce and transmit. And demand is only increasing. How we manage that capacity, and the efficiency with which we manage it, is going to be increasingly important."
    即便在今天，她指出，“有多少电力可以生产和传送是有限制的。而需求一直在增长。我们如何管理这个容量，以及我们管理的效率将会越来越重要。”

    Monitoring energy usage from a single house to an entire city
    从房屋到城市，监控能源使用

    Developed in collaboration with HP’s Corporate Sustainability team and its Enterprise Services Utilities group, the HP Home Energy Manager is one of the first projects to be developed under HP Labs’ new Demonstrator Initiative.
    由惠普公司企业可持续发展团队和企业服务公共事业集团协作开发的惠普家用能源管理系统是惠普实验室最新的“演示者计划”（Demonstrator Initiative）开发的首批项目中的一个。

    "The idea is to take an area of your research and show how it could be used in a full, real life context," says Lyons. "From that you learn a lot, and then you take the most promising insights and use them to direct your next set of research topics."
    “从你的研究领域中选择一个想法，并想办法让它在一个完整而真实的生活中得到应用，”Lyons说。“从这里你会学到很多，然后选择最有可能的见解，并用它来指导下一个研究课题。”

    For the Home Energy Manager team, those topics include further refining the home-based model and moving from systems that offer feedback on a single, relatively small house to ones that address larger buildings, campuses and eventually entire communities.
    对于惠普家用能源管理系统团队，这些主题包括进一步完善以家庭为基础的模式，从一个单一的、比较小的房屋，发展到更大的建筑群、校园，最终是整个社区。

    "This supports our group’s vision of what we’re calling the City 2.0," says Lyons.  "We’re also adding what we’ve learned from the dynamic provisioning of power and cooling in the data center over the past few years.  That, combined with the analytics that we’ve been developing for the Home Energy Manager, will allow us to begin scaling up to the level of being able to monitor, and thus better manage, energy supply and demand for the whole ecosystem."
    “这一支持我们集团的服务被称之为City 2.0，”Lyons说。“过去几年里，我们从数据中心冷却的动态配置中多学到很多东西，把这些与我们为惠普家用能源管理系统的开发而进行的分析相结合，使得我们的工作扩展到一个可监控的层次，用以更好的管理这个生态系统的能源供应和需求。”

    The HP Home Energy Manager project was showcased last month at the launch of HP’s global Unlocking Your Energy initiative and has already generated interest both within HP and among major utility and telecommunications businesses.
    惠普家用能源管理系统项目上个月在惠普的全球Unlocking Your Energy行动的发布会上被展示出来，并已经有一些惠普公司内部的部门、主要公共事业以及电信企业对此产生了兴趣。

    "We now live in a world made up of "Smart Things"– smart meters, smart plugs, appliances, electric cars and so on," noted senior fellow Chandrakant Patel, the originator of the City 2.0 concept and director of HP’s Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group, at the launch.  "That offers us a great opportunity to monitor, analyze, and control energy usage for everything from a house up, eventually, to an entire city."
    “如今，我们生活在一个由‘智能物品’构成的世界中——智能电表、智能插座、电器、电力汽车等等，”惠普公司可持续发展生态系统研究集团总监、City 2.0概念的鼻祖、高级研究员Chandrakant Patel在发布会上指出。“这给我们提供了一个很好的机会，用来监测、分析和控制能源的使用，从房屋最终到整个城市。”