http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware Boosting Energy Awareness Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:10:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2010/03/recruitment-of-test-households/ 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 ... http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2010/02/beaware-present-at-ict4ee/ 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. http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2010/02/on-line-survey-at-beaware%e2%80%99s-web-site/ 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. http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2010/02/plenary-meeting-in-brussels-february-22-23/ 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 – ... http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2010/02/publication-of-scientific-paper-about-energylife-usa/ 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 ... http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2010/02/beaware-at-euronews/ 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 ... http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2009/11/beaware-at-ict-for-sustainable-homes/ 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 http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2009/11/ict4ee-project-award/ 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. http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2009/10/delivering-energy-savings-through-smart-metering/ BeAware is attending SenterNovem, the first European conference on energy efficiancy and behaviour, in Maastricht October 18-20, 2009. http://www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/2009/10/beaware-at-senternovem/