eco-bot

eco-bot pilots

The eco-bot funcionality is being demonstrated in three European pilots, each representing a different business model and addressing a differtent target group: in Spain (Estabanell Utility Business 2 Consumer use case), in Italy, United Kingdom & Spain (Dexma Building Energy Management System Business to Business use case) and in Germany (SenerCon ESCo Business 2 Business 2 Consumer use case). Please find each pilot described in brief below, or go to the Pilots section for more details.

Utility in Catalonia

Estabanell is a power utility that will offer eco-bot to residential clients during the pilot year. Through eco-bot residential consumers will have access to global and appliance level consumption data, will receive recommendations for better energy efficiency, can easily ask about company procedures and information, and can configure notifications so that they are notified about their consumption. The pilot will allow eco-bot to demonstrate its benefits to end users helping them improve their energy efficiency and to utilities helping them offer more value to their clients with an engaging energy efficiency tool.

BEMS Italy, UK & Spain

The demo case in DEXMA’s EMS, DEXMA Analyse, is a B2B (business to business) use case – this means that Energy Management System (EMS) users, like facility managers, will use the chatbot in order to increase and/or improve the functionalities of the EMS. The Eco-Bot chatbot offers a variety of functionalities for facility managers and/or owners and energy managers such as a recommendation engine that displays the best available recommendation in order to increase the energy savings in the locations managed by the user, league tables to see the 10 best or worst performing locations in the user’s portfolio or set up consumption, cost or carbon emission goals, among other functionalities.

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. IESA displays the energy consumption cost and emission in charts and tables based on data from energy bills and meter readings entered by users. By using the eco-bot chat box within iESA, users get immediate and easy access to their energy consumption, energy cost and CO2 emissions. Additionally, they can ask eco-bot for energy advice regarding different fields of energy use in a household – an as innovative aspect – they get not only general information but recommendations that fit to their personal attitude and situation.

Introducing the eco-bot project

The new Eco-Bot project video titled “INTRODUCING THE ECO-BOT PROJECT” is now online! See what the project is all about, including selected actual visualizations of some indicative use cases, and please don’t forget to subscribe to the Eco-bot Youtube channel.

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 a thorough analysis of selected social and cultural factors that are key to shaping energy-saving behaviours among individual and commercial consumers. The Eco-Bot project pays special attention to soft behavioural factors, which is important for shaping desirable pro-ecological
behaviours among energy consumers. This will provide an accurate definition of the behavioural segments of the target groups to be selected for the purposes of the project.

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 expands its software solutions, leveraging Natural Language Processing technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Chatbots create a direct personal communication channel that can improve the user experience, facilitate interactions and give valuable insights to the customer needs. In the Eco-Bot project, multilingual virtual agents are built to support the tailored needs of diverse users; electric power utility customers, residential users with smart meters and energy management system users. ERRA's metrics on user interactions allow constant monitoring of the user experience and analysis of performance, thus enable its improvement.

Our first newsletter titled "Introducing the eco-bot project" is online!

eco-bot latest news

Apr, 8

Full-scale roll-out of eco-bot piloting activities

After more than a year of preparation development and small-scale piloting, the full-scale intelligent energy chatbot Eco-Bot has been launched! Eco-Bot will be integrated in energy monitoring systems for enterprises (DEXMA Analyse of the Spanish company DEXMA) and households (Energy savings Account of the German company SEnerCon) and in the online portal of the Spanish […]
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Feb, 7

Eco-Bot project video

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.
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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!
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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.
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Jan, 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
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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
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Nov, 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 […]
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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 […]
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Oct, 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 […]
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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.
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