Database

Meter Data

Meter data is available from UK Data Service (DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-8634-1). Alternatively, you can email philipp.grunewald@oriel.ox.ac.uk to obtain an access code, provided you comply with the following rules:

  • Only use the data for research purposes (no commercial use)
  • Do not, or even attempt to, identify individuals (including by linking with other data)
  • Do not share without Meter's permission
  • Please cite DOI 10.5255/UKDA-SN-8634-1

Data documentation

Database

To take full advantage of these data, we recommend careful study of the documentation for use and limitations.

Example of a household profile

Electricity profile for a household

Participants receive an interactive profile like this to explore activities in relation to their electricity use at the time.

Activity categorisation

Sankey diagram of activities

A Sankey diagram to show how we categorise activities into larger and smaller subgroups

Download database

Database

Access all data, including 10 minute electricity readings, household/individual surveys and activity records. Data is stored as relational SQL database. See documentation for help. 28MB

Database

1 minute electricity readings

Electricity readings with 1 minute resolution. 27MB

GitHub

Source code

Our software is open source. You can access the code for the app and many other resources on GitHub

Graphs

Some illustrated Meter Data

Map