The new Eco-Bot project video titled “INTRODUCING THE ECO-BOT PROJECT” is now online! See what the project is all about, including some actual visualizations of some indicative use cases, and please don’t forget to subscribe to the Eco-bot Youtube channel.
Read more Eco-Bot project videoeco-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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Jan, 31
The first Eco-Bot newsletter is online!
The first Eco-Bot newsletter titled “Introducing the Eco-Bot project” is online. Please click on the image above to read it and don’t forget to subscribe in order to receive our future newsletters!
Read more The first Eco-Bot newsletter is online! - Jan, 28
ECO-BOT 5TH PLENARY MEETING
The eco-bot consortium has successfully the 5th project plenary meeting in the city of Berlin in Germany hosted by Senercon. Apart from all the work package leaders presentations, all participating partners exchanged ideas about the large-scale pilots programmed for roll-out during the next month.
Read more ECO-BOT 5TH PLENARY MEETINGJan, 23
New eco-bot video as seen on PolandIn
New video featuring our project partner Sylwia Słupik of the University of Economics in Katowice as seen on PolandIn. For more information please see the University article by following the link below: https://www.ue.katowice.pl/no_cache/en/university/news/article/european-research-project-eco-bot-with-the-participation-of-the-ue-katowice-video.html
Read more New eco-bot video as seen on PolandIn - Dec, 31
“Science in Poland” magazine features the eco-bot project
The Science in Poland magazine featured the eco-bot project through the testimonial of Dr. Sylwia Slupik of the University of Economics in Katowice. This featured article has introduced our project to the Polish academic community (article is in Polish language). The link to the article can be found here: http://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C80025%2Ceco-bot-powstaje-spersonalizowany-wirtualny-asystent-energii.html
Read more “Science in Poland” magazine features the eco-bot projectNov, 1
Eco-bot project presented at the 18th symposium of the Polish National Council of Research Project Coordinators
Dr. Sylwia Slupik of the University of Economics in Katowice has successfully presented the eco-bot project at the 18th symposium of the Polish National Council of Research Project Coordinators “International projects – programming and advantages of participation 15.XI.2019″ Gliwice, Poland. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange experience in project implementation. In addition, the […]
Read more Eco-bot project presented at the 18th symposium of the Polish National Council of Research Project Coordinators - Oct, 24
Eco-bot project presented to SENSE students in Spain
Students from the program SENSE (Master’s in Smart Electrical Networks and Systems) made a visit to the Estabanell Premises on October 24th. During their visit, a presentation on the Eco-bot project was made. The students were familiarized with the issues that the eco-bot project is addressing, how it is addressing them, and finally they saw […]
Read more Eco-bot project presented to SENSE students in SpainOct, 11
eco-bot 4th plenary meeting
We have successfully concluded our fourth plenary meeting in Athens hosted by ERRA. We covered lots of ground both technically in an extensive testing session, as well as in reference to our exploitation strategy in a dedicated exploitation workshop. We are now looking forward to starting the roll-out of the fully integrated eco-bot solution to […]
Read more eco-bot 4th plenary meeting - Oct, 9
eco-bot Exploitation Strategy Seminar
The eco-bot team participated in an exploitation strategy seminar where we analyzed our expected Key Exploitable Results and concluded our Business Model Canvas under the guidance of our external expert in an EU sponsored and designed crash course.
Read more eco-bot Exploitation Strategy SeminarMay, 20
eco-bot team meeting in Berlin
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 Berlin