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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!
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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.

Interactive Institute showed BeAware’s solution Energy Life in Ericsson’s booth at the conference Metering Europe, October 6-8 in Barcelona. EU has decided that all member states must adjust to the smart metering system by 2020. Ericsson is one of several companies that are interested in being a total provider of smart metering since they already have the knowledge about communication needed. They wanted to show their potential customers what the latest technique can deliver to the user’s, and Energy Life was suitable for this purpose.

Interactive Institute presented BeAware at the national research arena, arranged by Elforsk and Swedish Energy Agency, August 26-27 in Sweden. The conference gathered 50 delegates from institutes, universities and energy companies to listen to the latest research results within energy usage today and in the future.