Be Aware
Boosting Energy Awareness With Adaptive Real-time Environments
| Coordinatore | AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSAATIO
Organization address
address: P.O. Box 19800 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Finland [FI] |
| Totale costo | 3˙965˙802 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙711˙816 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2007-2 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-05-01 - 2011-04-30 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSAATIO
Organization address
address: P.O. Box 19800 contact info |
FI (Aalto) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
BASEN OY
Organization address
address: SALMISAARENAUKIO contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
ENEL.SI SRL
Organization address
address: VIA DELLA BUFALOTTA 255 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Organization address
address: Via San Martino Della Battaglia contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
INTELLIGENCE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY SRL IES SOLUTIONS SRL
Organization address
address: VIA MONTE SENARIO contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
THE INTERACTIVE INSTITUTE II AKTIEBOLAG
Organization address
address: ISAFJORDSGATAN 22, PLAN 6 contact info |
SE (KISTA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
Organization address
address: Via VIII Febbraio contact info |
IT (PADOVA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
VATTENFALL ELDISTRIBUTION AB
Organization address
address: JAMTLANDSGATAN 99 contact info |
SE (STOCKHOLM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
VATTENFALL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AB
Organization address
city: ALVKARLEBY contact info |
SE (ALVKARLEBY) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
Reduction of energy consumption is a societal challenge that requires combination of technical, economical, and social means. So far, energy conservation has focused on new technologies and automation, treating users as passive consumers. However, strong evidence suggests that users can adapt actively their behaviour to energy saving with suitable feedback, support, and incentives, reducing significantly and cost-effectively energy use without impacting adversely their comfort.nAt present, energy information flows are slow, aggregated, and hidden, being operated by a market lacking incentives and proper service models. The opaqueness discourages users to learn and apply conservation strategies in their everyday lives. However, novel ICT's offer opportunities for removing this bottleneck. In particular, ubiquitous interfaces combined with low-cost sensors support real-time information from energy networks and consumption, empowering users to learn and share conservation strategies.nBeAware studies how ubiquitous information can turn users into active players by developing: 1) an open and capillary infrastructure sensing wirelessly energy consumption at appliance level; 2) ambient and mobile interaction to integrate energy use profiles into users' everyday life; 3) value added service platforms and models where consumers can act on ubiquitous energy information while energy producers and other stakeholders gain new business opportunities.nBeAware combines research excellence with relevant industrial involvement. To ensure wide applicability, a Nordic and a Southern evaluation site are planned. A liaison with the CITRIS programme in the USA facilitates dissemination. The expected impact focuses on 1) grounding the conservation potential to users' cognitive constraints and practices, 2) ubiquitous computing applications for sensing wirelessly energy use and enabling users to act, and 3) value added service models to innovate a new energy and multi-utility market.