In the News: Marta Gonzalez on Using Cellphones to Help Cities be Energy Efficient

Prof. Marta Gonzalez describes tool that uses passively collected cellphone data to improve urban scale building occupancy and mobility estimates.

“Understanding building occupancy at an urban-scale allows us to plan better for collective energy use. Like traffic apps that tell you the current state of road congestion, we envision a model that could potentially tell users what the energy demands are in different places and therefore identify bespoke efficiency measures. The tool could also potentially connect to smart-devices that automatically adjust to the energy demand,” said Prof. Gonzalez.

See

• Can Cellphones help cities be more energy efficient? (Berkeley Engineering, 9/23/19)
• Planning for sustainable cities by estimating building occupancy with mobile phones (Nature Communications, 8/19/19)