GreenSoulICT-platform for higher engagement in energy efficiency

among users of public buildings

One of the main sources of unnecessary energy consumption is the misuse of energy consuming devices and systems in

buildings. Making energy consuming devices more efficient is one of the keys in order to achieve the EU 20-20-20 targets.

The GreenSoul project thus focuses on public buildings and aims to achieve a higher energy efficiency by using a novel ICT

platform empowered by a socio-economic and a behavioural model, which will guide and aid more eco-aware practices

on people, devices and buildings.

4ward Energy Research GmbH | Reininghausstraße 13A, 8020 Graz, | Austria

evelyn.hummer@4wardenergy.at | Tel: +43 664 88 500 358 | www.4wardenergy.at

This project has received funding from the European Union’s

Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant

agreement No. 696129

E. HUMMER, M. TRAGNER, M. WEISSENBACHER, M. RABENSTEINER

Figure 1: GreenSoul pilot buildings Figure 2: Distribution of energy usage within the pilot areas

6. Intelligent control at device level (- 5%)

5. Manual control due to behavior change (- 4%)

4. Awareness through GreenSoul platform (- 3%)

3. Energy awareness spread to personnel (- 4%)

2. Awareness of building energy manager (- 3%)

1. Smart monitoring (- 2%)

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Seville

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Website: www.greensoul-h2020.eu

Twitter: @GreenSoulH2020 Facebook: facebook.com/greensoulproject LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/10786340

Expected Impact Partners

Pilot Buildings

The GreenSoul project will install an energy monitoring platform at six public

(see Figure 1) buildings to evaluate and impact the way people use energy

consuming shared devices and personal devices.

Pilots evaluation comprises several steps. The first two steps (1) energy audit

and (2) baseline creation build the basis to

• know the current state of the pilots sites (see Figure 2) and

• be able to correctly asses the improvements made by the interventions.

The models created within this phase will be updated after every piloting

phase in order to take into consideration any potential modification of the

behaviour of the building.

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