Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools
Albert Hoffrichter,
Evangelos Zacharis,
Angelina Katsifaraki,
Ashley Morton,
Gloria Calleja,
Federica Fuligni,
Marko Batic,
Marina Dorokhova,
Niall Castelli,
Konstantinos Kanellos,
Thanh Nguyen
Affiliations
Albert Hoffrichter
VaasaETT Ltd., Sörnäisten rantatie 29, 00500 Helsinki, Finland
Evangelos Zacharis
Hypertech SA, 32 Perikleous St, 15232 Athens, Greece
Angelina Katsifaraki
Hypertech SA, 32 Perikleous St, 15232 Athens, Greece
Ashley Morton
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Computing Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
RINA Consulting S.p.A, Via A. Cecchi, 6-16129 Genova, Italy
Marko Batic
The Mihailo Pupin Institute, Volgina 15, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia
Marina Dorokhova
Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Microengineering (IMT), Rue de la Maladiere 71b, 2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland
Niall Castelli
LiMETOOLS Ltd., Bournemouth BH1 3SW, UK
Konstantinos Kanellos
VaasaETT Ltd., Sörnäisten rantatie 29, 00500 Helsinki, Finland
Thanh Nguyen
VaasaETT Ltd., Sörnäisten rantatie 29, 00500 Helsinki, Finland
Due to end-users’ habit being one of the prominent factors influencing building performance, changing user behavior to encourage energy efficient habits has tremendous potential to facilitate energy savings. Four ongoing European projects, eTeacher, FEEdBACk, InBetween, and UtilitEE, developed ICT solutions achieve this change through triggering mechanisms, informative feedback, gamification, and automation services within a human-centric and context aware framework. This paper provides each project’s methodology to enhance end-user engagement of their respective approach, methodology to assess the expected results, technical and legal challenges, and the preliminary results of their ICT solutions, which have also been presented at Sustainable Places 2020 conference.