"This book examines smart automation technologies which assist in energy conservation along with various performance metrics which are necessary to facilitate a building to be known as a 'green smart building'"--

"We find that households living in California homes built in the 1960s and 1970s had high electricity consumption in 2000 relative to houses of more recent vintages because the price of electricity at the time of home construction was low. Homes built in the early 1990s had lower electricity...