A Global Personal Energy Meter

Abstract. Every day each of us consumes a significant amount of energy, both directly through transportation, heating and use of appliances, and indirectly from our needs for the production of food, manufacture of goods and provision of services. I envisage a personal energy meter which can record and apportion an individual’s energy usage in order to provide baseline information and incentives for reducing the environmental impact of our lives. Contextual information will be crucial for apportioning the use and energy costs of shared resources. In order to obtain this it will be necessary to develop low cost, low infrastructure location systems that can be deployed on a truly global scale.