BeAware at home owners fair in Eskilstuna called: Gör ditt boende bättre

BeAware exhibited at ICT4EE, Brussels, March 19-20

ICT4EE is a a high level event on ICT for energy efficiency, arranged by The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General, in cooperation with the Czech Presidency of the European Union.
Some of the work made so far within the BeAware project will be presented in a stand there.

How do we get through to the customers in the information overload nowadays?
One of EU’s goal is to save 20% energy by the year 2020. There are already a number of tools available for follow up on consumption, like smart meter readings, energy measurers and statistic tools. However, these tools will usually only provide data and statistics and you still have to draw all your own conclusions regarding your consumption. This can be both difficult and time consuming which will make many consumers uninterested.
Hopefully, BeAware is one solution for this, …

BeAware participates in largest conference on energy, climate and environmental issues in Sweden.
http://www.sverigesenergiting.se
[Update: See the presentation of BeAware by Li Jönsson here (in Swedish).]

Giulio Jacucci, HIIT, have for the last three months supervised two groups of students that have developed and presented ideas for BeAware. These concepts are now presented on two websites.
An Ambient Interface Prototype was demonstrated with several scenarios of why and how to display feedback with dimming. Technology wise the X10 seems to be slow and outdated the students pointed out to a new protocoll technology
iPhone web technologies and multitouch visualisations. In particular they demonstrated simple embedding of conservation principles in simple games.

BeAware will participate on ICT Event 25 – 27 November 2008, Lyon, France
From the website: “This conference is Europe’s largest ICT research event in 2008. The event is organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the French Presidency of the European Union and will examine European Union priorities in ICT research for over 2 billion Euro of funding available in 2009-2010. More than 4000 participants are expected to attend the event.”

Berlin, Germany
Description:
“Private households are responsible for a large share of global energy and electricity consumption and the related CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Residential energy demand is also rapidly increasing, due to larger homes, new services and additional appliances, putting a strain on the economies and energy infrastructures of both developed and developing countries.
EEDAL’09 will provide a unique forum to discuss and debate the latest developments in energy efficiency of residential appliances and lighting, heating and cooling equipment and ICT equipment. The policies and programmes adopted and planned, as well …

“Metering, Billing/CRM Europe 2008” in Amsterdam – the largest metering fair in Europe.

Nordic Climate Solutions is the largest climate change and clean tech conference, trade show and network event in Northern Europe.
The conference aims to attract over 1000 key stakeholders from both the Nordic region and beyond. It will be a meeting place for executives, politicians, business men and women, as well as leading researchers. Among the many parallel activities that will take place at the conference is the “Young Scientists Lounge”. Here, the session starts with short presentations of the young scientists. These short introductions work as a “smorgasboard” of state …