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Alan Meier is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States and specializes in engineering with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as building and construction. Their research spans various subfields including developmental and educational psychology, environmental engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics:

  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Flow Experience in Various Fields
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Alan Meier has published extensively, particularly in the following research venues:

  • Energy and Buildings
  • Energies
  • Sensors
  • Fusion Engineering and Design
  • Journal of Cleaner Production

Among their recent papers are:

  • Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses - A review, 2020, Energy and Buildings
  • Tailored gamification and serious game framework based on fuzzy logic for saving energy in connected thermostats, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Energy demand science for a decarbonized society in the context of the residential sector, 2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Practical limits to the use of non-intrusive load monitoring in commercial buildings, 2021, Energy and Buildings
  • Using Deep Learning in Real-Time for Clothing Classification with Connected Thermostats, 2022, Energies

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Pedro Ponce, Arturo Molina, Juana Isabel Méndez, Therese Peffer, and Omar Mata, suggesting a broad network within their research community.

Best Publications

  • How people use thermostats in homes: A review

    Therese Peffer;Marco Pritoni;Alan Meier;Cecilia Aragon

  • Electricity used by office equipment and network equipment in the US

    Kaoru Kawamoto;Jonathan G Koomey;Bruce Nordman;Richard E Brown

  • Rating the energy performance of buildings

    Thomas Olofsson;Alan Meier;Roberto Lamberts

  • Electricity used by office equipment and network equipment in the U.S.: Detailed report and appendices

    Kaoru Kawamoto;Jonathan G. Koomey;Bruce Nordman;Richard E. Brown

  • SUPPLY CURVES OF CONSERVED ENERGY FOR CALIFORNIA'S RESIDENTIAL SECTOR

    Alan Meier;Arthur H. Rosenfeld;Janice Wright

  • Energy impacts of recycling disassembly material in residential buildings.

    Weijun Gao;Takahiro Ariyama;Toshio Ojima;Alan Meier

  • Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses -A review

    Bin Yang;Bin Yang;Xiaojing Li;Yingzhen Hou;Alan Meier;Alan Meier

  • Supplying Energy Through Greater Efficiency: The Potential for Conservation in California's Residential Sector

    Alan Meier;Janice Wright;Arthur H. Rosenfeld

  • Supply Curves of Conserved Energy

    Alan Kevin Meier

  • Usability of residential thermostats: Preliminary investigations

    Alan Meier;Cecilia Aragon;Therese Peffer;Daniel Perry

  • Consumer discount rates implied by purchases of energy-efficient refrigerators

    Alan K. Meier;Jack Whittier

  • Strategic landscaping and air-conditioning savings: A literature review

    Alan K. Meier

  • The 25 IEA energy efficiency policy recommendations to the G8 Gleneagles Plan of Action

    Nigel Jollands;Paul Waide;Mark Ellis;Takao Onoda

  • How Much Energy Are We Using? Potential of Residential Energy Demand Feedback Devices

    Danny Parker;David Hoak;Alan Meier;Richard Brown

  • Accuracy of home energy rating systems

    Jeff Ross Stein;Alan Meier

  • How People Actually Use Thermostats

    Alan Meier;Cecilia Aragon;Becky Hurwitz;Dhawal Mujumdar

  • Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior

    Marco Pritoni;Marco Pritoni;Alan K. Meier;Cecilia Aragon;Daniel Perry

  • Real-time and contactless measurements of thermal discomfort based on human poses for energy efficient control of buildings

    Bin Yang;Bin Yang;Xiaogang Cheng;Xiaogang Cheng;Xiaogang Cheng;Dengxin Dai;Thomas Olofsson

  • Refrigerator energy use in the laboratory and in the field

    Alan Meier

  • Supplying Energy through Greater Efficiency

    Alan Meier;Janice Wright;A. H. Rosenfeld

  • Communicating Power Supplies: Bringing the Internet to the Ubiquitous Energy Gateways of Electronic Devices

    Steven Lanzisera;Andrew R. Weber;Anna Liao;Dominic Pajak

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Olofsson
Thomas Olofsson Luleå University of Technology
Mary Ann Piette
Mary Ann Piette Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Daniel Sperling
Daniel Sperling University of Haifa
Seth R. Sanders
Seth R. Sanders University of California, Berkeley
David G. Victor
David G. Victor University of California, San Diego
Lynn Price
Lynn Price Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jayant Sathaye
Jayant Sathaye Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stephen H. Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider Stanford University
Hashem Akbari
Hashem Akbari Concordia University
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University

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