How the Toon smart thermostat uses scalable data science to enable households to become more energy efficient Stephen Galsworthy

1. 22 September 2017
Using scalable data science to
enable households to become
more energy efficient
Stephen Galsworthy

4. Introducing Toon
Toon puts you in charge by providing
you real time energy insight, giving you
options to save money and reduce
your footprint.
Toon gives you access to new services
and taps into the increasing possibilities
of connected things, making your life
smarter.

5. Data management
Solar solution
Network
Mobility
Control by demand
Heat pump
Services
Storage
The beating
heart of your
smart life
Smart Platforms & Energy Services

6. Boiler adapter
Z-Wave
Meter adaptor
Gas sensor
Electricity sensor
Philips Hue
Z-Wave
Toon data sources
Central heating system
Solar panels

7. Scale of Toon data
100 MB data
per user
collected per
month
350,000 thermostats
installed
300 types
of sensor
and user
interaction
data

8. Data Privacy
Data from all Toons is collected and stored
anonymously. Data is tagged with an anonymous
ID, generated locally on Toon.
The end user maintains control over this key and
we only use data in a non-anonymous way when
a customer explicitly opts-in.

9. Toon Innovators
Innovators agree to share their data for
research and product development.
In return they they are first in line to try out
our new services!

10. Data Collection setup
data
collector
data
storage
Processed
data
Data
science
platform

11. Apache Airflow
Data Science platform
For managing Spark
clusters and notebooks
For scheduling complex
workflows
For production grade
algorithms and R&D
For machine learning on
distributed data

12. Data driven services

13. Waste Checker
We don’t always notice how much energy
we’re wasting.
Toon can now expose the energy guzzlers in
your home.

14. Toon detects inefficient appliances and behaviours

15. Example: Inefficient washing machine
1. Run disaggregation algorithms
on the 10s electricity meter data
2. Determine appliance fingerprint
3. Compare with industry
energy consumption
standards
4. Personalised advice
for the customer
Washing machine
Dryer Dish washer
Power
Wh

16. Example: Heating and Insulation advice
1. Analyse how much gas is used
for heating the home
2. Analyse the cooling down rate
of the home overnight from
temperature data
3. Benchmark with
comparable homes
4. Personalised insulation
advice for the customer
Insulation
It looks like your home loses energy more
quickly than efficient homes

17. Scale of Toon data
35,000,000 washing machine cycles
detected per year
100,000
washing
machine cycles
detected per
day

18. What else is on its way?
Boiler Monitoring
Toon will keep an eye on your boiler 24 hours per day.
It’ll tell you if it’s still working correctly and when the next
maintenance is due.
Monthly Energy Insights
A personalised overview of energy usage for all Toon
users.

19. We are proud to be working together with:
Stephen Galsworthy
Head of Data Science
+31 (0) 20 462 1680
stephen.galsworthy@quby.com