The overall aim is to motivate behavioral change by raising consumer awareness and awareness of ownership by providing attractive personalized combined knowledge services on energy use, indoor environment, health and lifestyle, by ICT-based solutions. This awareness will support and motivate end-users to well informed pro-active behavior towards energy use, energy efficiency and health, thus empowering consumers and providing confidence of making the right choices. The combination of awareness on both energy, health and lifestyle will offer consumers more and better incentives than only information on energy use. MOBISTYLE has the following objectives:
1. To present understandable information and indicators, related to energy use and energy efficiency, in an easy to handle and attractive way for consumers, by unlocking and translating large data sets using data analytics from energy monitoring.
The first objective is to make energy use and energy efficiency understandable by generating understandable indicators from (big) data and information from monitoring systems and in-home equipment, (provided by sensors, smart meters, smart plugs, smart appliances and energy-aware products, intelligent controls and home/building automation) and transform these data into understandable knowledge that is presented in a portable and useful way, provided on the right time and place.
2. To provide understandable personalized information for consumers by combining energy monitoring with monitoring of indoor environmental quality, behavior parameters and daily habits
Fragmented or non-holistic approaches on implementing energy-efficiency measures in buildings have a big risk to raise a conflict between energy saving, thermal comfort, indoor environmental quality (including indoor air quality, light and acoustics) and health.
3. To motivate change of consumers’ habits and daily practices on energy use on a longer and lasting time by combined modular personalized information on individual energy use, health and lifestyle
This objective is to transform this information into knowledge for raising awareness on energy use and behavior, thus motivating and supporting energy end-users to come to a behavioral consciousness and change of lifestyle concerning energy and health. The combined information on both energy, indoor environment and health allows for informed decision making and supports confidence and feeling of self-control in end users and is much more effective and motivating than only information on energy. Most important is that the motivation, awareness and behavioral consciousness should be lasting and be a part of daily living and routines.
4. To foster new business models and applications for future developer engagements
The modular information services and data collection offer new business opportunities for developers and designated third parties.
5. To achieve a lasting and sustainable behavioral change in different real environments by deploying and validating the developed solutions and services, demonstrating a significant reduction of final energy use, prompted by these solutions.
