FEEdBACk: An ICT-Based Platform to Increase Energy Efficiency through Buildings’ Consumer Engagement

Filipe Soares, André Madureira, Andreu Pagès, António Barbosa, António Coelho, Fernando Cassola, Fernando Ribeiro, João Viana, José Andrade, Marina Dorokhova, Nélson Morais, Nicolas Wyrsch and Trine Sørensen
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Filipe Soares: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
André Madureira: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Andreu Pagès: DEXMA, C/ Nàpols 189, Bajos D, 08013 Barcelona, Spain
António Barbosa: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
António Coelho: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Fernando Cassola: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Fernando Ribeiro: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
João Viana: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
José Andrade: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Marina Dorokhova: École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), STI IMT PV-LAB, MC A2 304 (Microcity), Rue de la Maladière 71b, CH-2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Nélson Morais: Institute for Systems and Computing Engineering, Tecnology and Science (INESC TEC), Campus da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Nicolas Wyrsch: École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), STI IMT PV-LAB, MC A2 304 (Microcity), Rue de la Maladière 71b, CH-2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Trine Sørensen: In-JeT ApS, Jeppe Aakjærs Vej, 15 3460 Birkerød, Denmark

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-43

Abstract: Energy efficiency in buildings can be enhanced by several actions: encouraging users to comprehend and then adopt more energy-efficient behaviors; aiding building managers in maximizing energy savings; and using automation to optimize energy consumption, generation, and storage of controllable and flexible devices without compromising comfort levels and indoor air-quality parameters. This paper proposes an integrated Information and communications technology (ICT) based platform addressing all these factors. The gamification platform is embedded in the ICT platform along with an interactive energy management system, which aids interested stakeholders in optimizing “when and at which rate” energy should be buffered and consumed, with several advantages, such as reducing peak load, maximizing local renewable energy consumption, and delivering more efficient use of the resources available in individual buildings or blocks of buildings. This system also interacts with an automation manager and a users’ behavior predictor application. The work was developed in the Horizon 2020 FEEdBACk (Fostering Energy Efficiency and BehAvioral Change through ICT) project.

Keywords: energy efficiency; ICT platform; gamification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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