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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.
- Lessons learned in building a middleware for smart gridsPublication . Macarulla, Marcel; Albano, Michele; Ferreira, Luís Lino; Teixeira, CésarSmart grids play an important role in the modernization and optimization of the existing electrical grid, to accomplish the current European Union Energy and Climate targets. Smart grids require distributed applications to manage the grid more efficiently. The performance of the distributed applications impacts on the communications delay time and on the timely interaction with the devices located in the users’ Home Area Networks. This paper presents the results of the ENCOURAGE project related to the development of a software platform to support smart grids. The work presented in this paper assesses four different middleware configurations and analyses the results on the delay performance tests. The results show that the mean end-to-end delay is between 310 ms and 453 ms in proper conditions. In terms of operational costs, the optimal configuration enables managing houses with less than 0.25 Euros per month per house. This paper justifies the maturity of the technology to support smart grids, and the possibility to transfer the ENCOURAGE project results to the industry.
- 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.