We are looking for families in the area of Helsinki (Finland) or Catania (Italy) willing to participate in trials of the BeAware project, a European research project concerned with the monitoring of household energy consumption. Energy consumption data will be gathered, processed and displayed using appropriate devices that will be supplied to the participants for the duration of the trial.
Data on the energy consumption of their own homes and individual devices will be accessible via web pages or third-generation mobile only to the participants and in protected mode. If you wish to participate …

BeAware will be present at the high level event ICT4EE in Brussels February 23-24. The Commission has recognized that ICTs and ICT-based innovations may provide one of the potentially most cost-effective means to achieve the 2020 targets. For that reason they aim at creating a policy framework that will allow the energy-saving potential of ICTs to be widely recognized and exploited and this will be discussed at this event. The project team of BeAware will show their first working prototype called Energy Life. The visitors in BeAware’s booth can also …

The project team has released an on-line survey and challenge you to answer the survey for actively contributing to the project’s research.
Kanske en direktlänk till on-line survey.

The BeAware partners meet in Brussels for fine tuning the first user test of the prototype Energy Life. The prototype will be tested in four Italian and four Finnish households, starting in March.

This paper illustrates the approach of Energy Life, a pervasive household sensoring and feedbacking system aimed at improving the energy conservation practices of the inhabitants. The concept of EnergyLife takes into account state-of-the-art knowledge of what makes a feedback intervention effective, which – at this stage of its development – can be synthesized into two main features. First, knowledge and action are to be synergically addressed by visualizing electricity consumption on the one side, and providing conservation tips on the other. Second, the design should be centered on the users …

BeAware has been interviewed by Euronews. In the video, conservation potential in the residential sector is discussed together with the BeAware approach to understand and engage consumers in energy saving.
From Euronews website:
The results were quite a surprise. Luciano Gamberini:
“The statistics are completely different from those revealed by the questionnaire. Some of the behaviour about sustainability, like leaving lights switched on at home, wasn’t credible. Almost 50 per cent of people lied in these questionnaires.”
To be widely accepted by users the Energy Life system has to be easy to learn, effective …

Giulio Jacucci, coordinator of BeAware, presented the BeAware project at the conference ICT for Sustainable Homes, November 16-17, in Nice.
The conference is a research and industry forum on how ICT can be used in buildings to reduce the energy consumption. Many projects, both research and industry initiatives, presented their solutions on this issue. One conclusion from the conference is that to be able to reach the necessary climate goals that EU has put up a transformation is critical. We already have the needed technology for this process but the market …

BeAware is one of the candidates in the Best ICT4EE Project Award.
Give us a vote if you like BeAware!
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ee09/item-display.cfm?login=true&id=2607

Luciano Gamberini and Anna Spagnolli have been invited to participate to the Delivering Energy Savings through Smart Metering workshop, to be held in Oxford (UK) next 26-27 October 2009.

BeAware is attending SenterNovem, the first European conference on energy efficiancy and behaviour, in Maastricht October 18-20, 2009.