• Building codes require about 20 powered safety devices in new U.S. homes. Health and consume 1% of residential electricity. Safety the are typically exempted from efficiency regulations. Per-unit consumption is small, but each home will have many units. Home medical a growing use energy. Miscellaneous electrical loads (MELs) responsible for significant fraction energy buildings. This paper ad...

In response to the historic 2011–17 California drought, local governments enacted a raft of conservation policies, and little is known about which ones explain sharp decline in residential water consumption. To answer this question, we use novel data set hourly consumption for more than 82,300 households Fresno, California, where declined by nearly third, have three main findings. First, estima...

The few previous studies examining the influence of the neighborhood context on health and health behavior among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (YMSM) have predominantly focused on residential neighborhoods. No studies have examined multiple neighborhood contexts among YMSM or the relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, psychosocial factors, social supp...

Residential networks usually protect its devices and services behind firewalls and use private IP addresses. Therefore, appliances within a residential network cannot be discovered and utilized from external networks by standardized technologies as UPnP. In this paper, we present our concept of “Service Presence”, based on the 3GPP Presence Service that makes the service presence information re...

While households’ general preference for low-density residential environments is well documented in the literature, little research in geography and urban planning has explicitly investigated how many and which households experience a state of mismatch in terms of land use patterns between their preferred residential neighborhood type and the type of neighborhood where they currently reside. Us...