NSF S&CC Spotlight: Powering Smarter, More Efficient Homes: Panagiota Karava's Vision for Connected Energy-Aware Communities
Panagiota Karava, a professor at Purdue University, has been leading a groundbreaking project focused on "Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy Aware Residential Communities." Panagiota and her team have been exploring innovative ways to help residents understand and reduce their home energy use.
S&CC supports community-inspired research and piloting addressing climate and environmental resilience, food and agriculture, health and wellness, education and workforce development, community planning, transportation and mobility, and many other priority areas relevant to communities. Teams of researchers and community stakeholders, across social science and technological disciplines, work collaboratively on projects that go beyond the current state-of-the-art to enable new frontiers for smart communities.