Proposal of Lifestyle Analysis from Household Electricity Consumption Data

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the lifestyle of residents from household electricity consumption data. Improvement of QOL(Quality Of Life) of elderlies has attracted attention in a super-aging society. It is known that the lifestyle of a person directly affects his / her health and QOL. Therefore, understanding a lifestyle is expected to be useful for providing various support for improving QOL, such as recommending adequate actions and daily habit. As a means for understanding residents' lifestyle, this paper focuses on household electricity consumption data, which gets to be available with the spread of smart meters. The result of analyzing lifestyles from actual electricity consumption data by focusing on essential actions such as awakening meal is reported.