A software solution for reducing energy consumption in domestic sector

This paper presents Eco2home, a software solution aiming to reduce energy consumption in the domestic area by providing intelligent information. The project started from the idea of the successful European project named Eco n´Home. The Eco n´Home project was created by a group of experts that were using data related to buildings, collected from house owners, to create an ldquoaction planrdquo containing energy reduction advices for the owners. The current solution automates these processes by combining techniques like artificial intelligence (expert systems) with technologies like Web services and Web applications. This enables the solution to collect data related to buildings trough a Web application and to automatically generate advices trough an expert system. Another key feature of the solution is the ability to generate daily advices by using a second expert system that consumes weather data from a weather forecast web service. At the end some energy reduction results are detailed and future work is presented.