The eco-bot team plenary meeting took place on May 15&16th in Berlin Germany at the offices of Adelphi, where the project status was discussed and the first rollout of the eco-bot platform at the three pilots was planned for next month.
Read more eco-bot team meeting in Berlineco-bot pilots
eco-bot runs on three pan-european pilots in Spain (Estabanell Business 2 Consumer use case), Germany (SenerCon Business 2 Business 2 Consumer use case) and United Kingdom & Spain (Dexma Business to Business use case) Please see them described below.
Utility in Catalonia
The Estabanell power utility (business to consumer) use case will demonstrate how delivering personalized information on appliance-level usage and relevant efficiency tips can affect the behavior of utility customers. In this use case, we will show how the more “personal” nature of chat-bot technology leads to more engagement and also how appliance-level consumption information leads to better efficiency.
BEMS UK & Spain
DEXMA is a leading building energy management system provider from Spain, offering an international SaaS platform focused on energy efficiency with over 1000 active customers (building managers / energy managers). In this (business to business) use case we will demonstrate how chat-bot technology can better engage business users such as property managers.
ESCO in Germany
SENERCON has developed the energy management system iESA (interactive Energy Savings Account) which engages over 90,000 users in climate protection campaigns of the co2online NGO. Within the SEnerCon use case (B2B2C use case), eco-bot will be deployed for a facilitated and more direct communication with iESA account holders. Energy and demographic data already available in the system will enable a profound dialogue between eco-bot and iESA users aiming at a more energy efficient behavior.
eco-bot main technologies & modeling
The eco-bot project will combine advances in state of the art technologies such as natural language processing, energy disaggregation and multi-factorial behavioral modeling.
Behavioral Modeling
UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN KATOWICE
The Eco-Bot project will classify already existing socioeconomic energy consumer models derived by European and international research projects, activities and recommendations, and will produce a taxonomy of those models while mapping them to actual market segments. Eco-Bot will build its engagement strategies on careful analysis of socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors, including market segmentation. This will provide a thorough definition of the target groups to be selected for the purposes of the project, with an emphasis on the demographics in the use cases.
Energy Disaggregation
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Monitoring energy consumption of individual appliances using individual appliance sensors or submetering in a house or a commercial building is often impractical and expensive, especially since the number of loads in residential and commercial buildings is rapidly increasing. On the other hand, energy disaggregation via Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) offers a non-intrusive, purely computational, software-based approach to separate aggregate load obtained from a single electricity meter into individual appliance loads. Researchers at Strathclyde will focus on tackling the challenges of NILM algorithms suitable for low rate (1-60s) to very low rate (15-60mins) disaggregation of smart meter data.
Natural Language Processing
E R R A
ERRA is a software house founded in 2000 that specializes in the area of reliability engineering and complex information systems. ERRA provides software data management solutions through an innovative platform, which integrates knowledge management with a highly configurable database application.
Our solutions cover the full lifecycle of application and software development for desktop and web applications and have used for environmental applications, decision support systems, and rapid prototyping.
eco-bot latest news
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Mar, 28
Eco-bot @ Startup Olé 2019
The eco-bot project was discussed by our very own Farah Cheaib of Estabannel in the relative energy transition session at the Startup Olé 2019 event in Salamanca Spain. You can find more information on the session in this Linkedin post.
Read more Eco-bot @ Startup Olé 2019 - Feb, 11
Estabanell discusses eco-bot with students
Eco-bot was presented in a session by Estabanell to Masters student from the select program in UPC Barcelona and KTH Sweden. The students learned about the project, the technology behind it, and it’s progress. Afterwards they also performed an activity to see what they could learn about their energy consumption with a tool like eco-bot. […]
Read more Estabanell discusses eco-bot with studentsDec, 2
Estabanell wins Innovation prize with eco-bot mention
Estabanell won the Innovation prize for the year of 2018 by the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, the prize was given for innovation activities performed at Estabanell, of which Eco-Bot forms part. This prize was presented on November 20, 2018, where this video was shown outlining innovation projects performed at Estabanell. You can find more […]
Read more Estabanell wins Innovation prize with eco-bot mention - Nov, 8
Presentation of eco-bot at “The Next Day for Energy Efficiency” International Workshop
The eco-bot project was presented at the “The Next Day for Energy Efficiency” International Workshop hosted by the ELTRUN E-business research center of the Athens University of Economics and Business on November 7th 2018 Among the participants were representatives of ten energy efficiency research & innovation projects funded by the EU Horizon 2020 funding scheme. […]
Read more Presentation of eco-bot at “The Next Day for Energy Efficiency” International WorkshopOct, 23
Second plenary meeting held in Katowice
The second plenary progress meeting of the eco-bot project hosted by the University of Economics in Katowice was held on October 16th & 17th 2018 in Poland. In the course of this two-day plenary meeting, all partners had the chance to present their progress and discuss the future plans of the project implementation.
Read more Second plenary meeting held in Katowice - Oct, 9
NILM Workshop 2018
Teams from the University of Strathclyde and Plegma Labs participated at the EU NILM Workshop 2018, hosted at Fraunhofer-inHaus-Center, Duisburg, Germany with major takeaways for the eco-bot project especially from the dedicated Energy Disaggregation Algorithms presentation session. Looking forward to participating in next year’s workshop which will probably be held in Greece!
Read more NILM Workshop 2018Jun, 19
Presentation of eco-bot in Building Energy Efficiency workshop in Athens
eco-bot was presented in the Building Energy Efficiency workshop in Athens, an official EUSEW Energy Day event co-organized by seven Research & Innovation Horizon 2020 projects
Read more Presentation of eco-bot in Building Energy Efficiency workshop in Athens - May, 29
InnoEnergy students from UPC & KTH discuss the eco-bot Project
Eco-bot partner Estabanell met with InnoEnergy Master Students from UPC and KTH to discuss the eco-bot project and give them feedback on the work they developed around the project throughout the year (including work on psychological reasoning, reward system, prototype, and business model). The students presented the eco-bot project and their own work based […]
Read more InnoEnergy students from UPC & KTH discuss the eco-bot ProjectMay, 7
First progress meeting held in Athens
The first progress meeting of the eco-bot project hosted by Plegma Labs was held in the beautiful and historic area of Marathon (Athens) on May 3rd – May 4th 2018. In the course of this two-day plenary meeting, all partners had the chance to present their progress and discuss the future plans of the project […]
Read more First progress meeting held in Athens