Browsing by Author "Casals, Miquel"
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- ENCOURAGEing Results on ICT for Energy Efficient BuildingsPublication . Le Guilly, Thibaut; Skou, Arne; Olsen, Petur; Printz Madsen, Per; Albano, Michele; Ferreira, Luís Lino; Pinho, Luís Miguel; Casals, Miquel; Macarulla, Marcel; Gangolells, MartaThis paper presents how the ICT infrastructure developed in the European ENCOURAGE project, centered around a message oriented middleware, enabled energy savings in buildings and households. The components of the middleware, as well as the supervisory control strategy, are overviewed, to support the presentation of the results and how they could be achieved. The main results are presented on three of the pilots of the project, a first one consisting of a single household, a second one of a residential neighborhood, and a third one in a university campus.
- A serious game enhancing social tenants’ behavioral change towards energy efficiencyPublication . Casals, Miquel; Gangolells, Marta; Macarulla, Marcel; Fuertes, Alba; Vimont, Vincent; Pinho, Luís MiguelThe energy consumption of the current building stock represents about 40% of the total final energy consumption in Europe. New gamification techniques may play a significant role in helping users adopt new and more energy efficient behaviours. This paper presents the advances achieved within the context of the EU-funded project EnerGAware - Energy Game for Awareness of energy efficiency in social housing communities. The main objective of the project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon2020 programme, is to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions in a sample of European social housing by changing the energy efficiency behaviour of the social tenants through the implementation of a serious game linked to the real energy use of the participants’ homes.