BEAWARE – Energy savings at your fingertips

Exhibition Zone R3 - Green ICT - Booth 10

Enter the green home of tomorrow: in this exhibit, you will see how sensors measure and help regulate the power consumption of household appliances like lights, oven, washing machine, TV set, refrigerator and computers. A real wake-up call!


WHAT?
The technology being developed under the BeAware project helps European citizens to identify energy consumption patterns at home and to actively save energy, and money. Wireless and interactive sensors first measure how much energy is consumed by household appliances. They then inform consumers of the potential for energy savings. For instance, your mobile phone can warn you if your lights are still on at home and your PC shows you in real time how much energy you are consuming. This way, consumers can see where and when they use energy and reduce carbon consumption, before the monthly bill arrives. With user-friendly monitoring systems, most households could cut their bills by 15 per cent if they were made aware of their energy consumption.
Currently families in Helsinki (Finland) and Catania (Italy) are testing BeAware technologies to monitor their energy consumption. Energy consumption data will be acquired, processed and communicated to the participants so they can adapt their behavior.

WHY?
Reducing energy consumption is essential to cutting global CO2 emissions and preserving the environment: ICTs have developed excellent tools to tackle this challenge. The EU-funded project BeAware has developed a new solution that helps consumers monitor their energy use and make efficiency gains.

WHO?
The project is coordinated by the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in Finland.
Other partners include research centres, universities and companies from Italy and Sweden.

HOW MUCH?
The BeAware project is funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research with 2.7 million euro (for a total project cost of 3.9 million euro).
It started in May 2008 and is due to finish in April 2011.
 

More information:

BeAware website

BeAware at ICT 2010
 
BeAware - Call for trial

"Switching to Energy Saving" TV Report, Futuris, Euronews (12.02.2010)

Technical FP7 factsheet 

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