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 2018eco-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
Natural Language Processing
BOTEGO
Botego is focused solely on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies and provides software solutions based on its proprietary algorithms. Botego is the first and currently only representative of a commercial product using NLP algorithms specifically created for Turkish Language in Turkey. The name Botego stands for “bot with an ego”, with respect to the ability to learn and advance like a human. Botego has two main products: Virtual Agents which are used for CRM, marketing, education and entertainment purposes and Natural Language Search which is used by a variety of firms in different sectors such as finance, FMCG and telecommunications.
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.
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.
eco-bot latest news
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Jun, 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 - Feb, 27
eco-bot acknowledged paper accepted for presentation at 2018 NILM workshop
The eco-bot acknowledged paper titled “Electricity Usage Profile Disaggregation of Hourly Smart Meter Data” produced by the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of the University of Strathclyde has been accepted and will be presented at the International NILM workshop to be held in March 2018 in Texas USA. – For more info on the […]
Read more eco-bot acknowledged paper accepted for presentation at 2018 NILM workshopNov, 20
eco-bot.eu site is live!
Welcome to eco-bot project’s website! Please bookmark us as we will be updating soon with lots of interesting news about our progress. Also please feel free to register as a beta tester and be part of the 10 month training process.
Read more eco-bot.eu site is live! - Nov, 9
eco-bot at NILM Workshop
eco-bot partners University of Strathclyde, Dexma Tech and Plegma Labs participated at the 4th European Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring in London UK, where all major state-of-the art players in NILM come together to exchange knowledge on energy disaggregation.
Read more eco-bot at NILM WorkshopNov, 3
eco-bot logo
We have concluded our logo design! So upon a unanimous partner vote, we would like to present our official project logo! We believe it fully represents our intent to combine personalized chatbot technology with personalized energy tips.
Read more eco-bot logo - Oct, 29
eco-bot kickoff meeting in Berlin
eco-bot finally is coming alive, since all partners kicked-off the project in the first meetup at the premises of RiSA in beautiful Berlin. Stay tuned for the first advances of the eco-bot team!
Read more eco-bot kickoff meeting in Berlin