Title :
SAVE ENERGY: Transforming Human Behaviour for energy efficiency
Author :
De Oliveira, Álvaro ; Raposo, João ; Niitamo, Veli-Pekka
Author_Institution :
Alamicro, Cascais, Portugal
Abstract :
The SAVE ENERGY Project aims to achieve energy consumption savings of up to 20% in public buildings through Human Behaviour Transformation. 5 Living Lab Pilots in 5 European cities were implemented using Living Lab methodologies, using Smart Metering technology and involving the users with the aid of ICT, namely Real Time Information, Serious Games and Web 2.0 tools to achieve sustainable User Behaviour Transformation on energy consumption. The very promising results so far, especially in the case of the public schools, and the potential for exploitation and replication are analysed.
Keywords :
Internet; building; energy conservation; energy consumption; power measurement; European cities; Lab Pilots; Living Lab; SAVE ENERGY Project; Serious Games; Web 2.0 tools; energy consumption; energy efficiency; human behaviour transformation; public buildings; real time information; smart metering technology; Best practices; Buildings; Educational institutions; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Games; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
eChallenges, 2010
Conference_Location :
Warsaw
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8390-7