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Table 1 The use cases relating to a smart home

From: A generic user interface for energy management in smart homes

No.

Use case

No.

Use case

1

Basic home automation

10

Visualization of historical energy costs

2

Advanced home automation

11

Visualization of historical energy data

3

Possibilities to specify degrees of freedom for devices

12

Prediction of in-house energy use

4

Visualization of building-level energy data

13

Support for system configurations

5

Visualization of device-level energy consumption

14

Provision of value-added services

6

Visualization of device-level energy generation

15

Visualization of historical data for the single resident

7

Visualization of external signals

16

Integration of electric vehicles

8

Role based access control

17

Connection to a user community

9

Floor plan based device organization

18

Support for setting building optimization Goals