Addressing the challenges of Energy Efficiency through ICT The Challenge The aim of APOLLON is to address the challenges in terms of Energy Efficiency which the European Union is currently facing. For that, an ICT-enabled transformation of the energy sector is needed both in production, distribution and consumption. The knowledge that heating, cooling and lighting of buildings account for more than 40% of European energy consumption, requires that the Energy Efficiency pilots to focus on the stimulation of behavioural changes by providing real-time updates on energy consumption through smart meters.
Living Labs ALFAMICRO (Coord)
PT
Amsterdam Motor
NL
Innovation
Lisboa e-Nova
PT
Academic Partners Aalto University
FI
Luleå University
SE
Supporting Partners Arquiled
PT
Comp. de Desenv. de Vitória
BR
INdT
BR
ISaLL
PT
Liander
NL
Lighting Living Lab
PT
Philips App. Technology
NL
SME Self Energy
PT
Plugwise
NL SMEs
The partners for APOLLON consist of 5 SMEs 4 Living Labs, 2 Research Partners and 9 Supporting Partners. Supporting Partners have privileged access to APOLLON Methods and Emerging Practices and have the opportunity to contributing to the creation of a sustainable, cross-border thematic network.
ISA
PT
NOKIA
FI
Process Vision
FI
Home Aut. Europe
NL
Luleå Energi
SE
You too can become a Supporting Partner of APOLLON by downloading your Letter of Support at http://www.apollon-pilot.eu/letterofsupport.doc and sending it to: IBBT vzw as coordinator of the APOLLON project proposal: c/o Pieter Ballon Manager, IBBT-iLab.o Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
The Cross-Border Experiments Amsterdam Living Lab The Amsterdam Smart City initiative tackles the key challenge for sustainability programmes and smart grid development. It is a Living Lab with real life measurement capabilities across the whole energy chain, from energy production, distribution and consumption that includes smart meters & smart grid technology. The pilot area covers two city parts of Amsterdam and involves about 1250 households. Selected households from this area are to be included into APOLLON demonstrations. The focus is activities on sustainable living in social and supported housing. It aims to reduce the energy consumption in households via using innovative ICT products, services and techniques, including smart meters, energy control mechanisms, direct feedback and information provisioning etc. It aims to achieve behavioural change leading to energy savings. Issues for the cross-border pilot are the testing of technology from all partner countries in Amsterdam. It has been offered to the partners to test their technologies in a number of Amsterdam households. In that sense Amsterdam provides infrastructure for SMEs in other countries to test their technologies.
Aalto Living Lab The Finland pilot will tackle the potential and hurdles of apartment level real-time measuring. It will implement systems that allow monitoring real time energy consumption in building and at apartment level, and delivering these real time information through web and mobile services. Users can see their real life energy consumption and a set of suggestions on how to reduce their energy bill. The objective of this pilot is to promote innovative ICT solutions for energy management and communication defining public incentives and to study sustainable user behaviour changes and mechanisms related to it. The objective is to create new services and to understand the energy controls from the user perspective. The plan is to also select subsidisers who work a lot on the road. It would be possible to wire their homes and get mobile hand held devices to them. They will use the system, evaluate it and suggest new ideas on functionality.
Portugal Energy Living Lab The Lisbon pilot consists of a housing residential block of flats. The well-organized residents have installed a photovoltaic installation (one of the largest in urban environment) and the focus of this pilot will be in both local micro production and smart grid sharing. The key objective at the Lisbon pilot is the promotion of higher energy efficiency in residential buildings where the householders are strongly motivated for energy saving and energy efficient use, by using ICT technologies and actively promoting user behaviour transformation. The APOLLON project will enhance user behaviour change and focus on the consumption reductions one can achieve through a dynamic and consistent information campaign, enabling access to real time data on energy consumptions and actions to perform according to the information displayed. The project promotes and implements and cost-saving solutions for energy management. Cross-border collaboration between pilot SMEs will be led by ISA, the technical coordinator. There are already collaborative joint actions with SMEs located in the other three pilots as well as in Vitória, Brazil.
Botnia Living Lab CDT /Botnia perspective is user-centric and focus on the mobility of individual citizens active in a variety of environments and contexts. Since its set-up, CDT/Botnia has run more than fifty projects wherein new concepts, services and products have been created and improved. The domain focus of the LL is naturally connected to the CDT research-development innovation programmes such as for example: “Energy and Environment”, “Group Media” and “eChange” (transforming “modes of operation” and new business models). The crossborder pilot will perform several tests across borders to learn about each other’s products, in order to learn from each other’s local testing. One of the cases already underway is to provide feedback from Swedish test users to ISA technologies (Portugal).
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