Addressing behavioral change towards energy efficiency in European educational buildings

Mylonas, Georgios; Amaxilatis, Dimitrios; Leligou, Helen C.; Zahariadis, Theodore; Zacharioudakis, Emmanouil; Hofstaetter, Joerg; Friedl, A.; Paganelli, Federica; Cuffaro, Giovanni; Lerch, J. A.

doi:10.1109/giots.2017.8016258

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“…In this work, a system is presented with the above properties, which aims to offer a complete solution in this respect. It is currently being used in 18 educational buildings in multiple European countries, in the context of the GAIA research project [ 7 , 8 ]. The project’s goal is to promote sustainability awareness and energy efficiency in an educational setting, utilizing real-world data inside class lectures, educational labs, building monitoring and gamification.…”

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An IoT-Based Solution for Monitoring a Fleet of Educational Buildings Focusing on Energy Efficiency

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Akrivopoulos²,

Mylonas

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Sensors

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Raising awareness among young people and changing their behaviour and habits concerning energy usage is key to achieving sustained energy saving. Additionally, young people are very sensitive to environmental protection so raising awareness among children is much easier than with any other group of citizens. This work examines ways to create an innovative Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) ecosystem (including web-based, mobile, social and sensing elements) tailored specifically for school environments, taking into account both the users (faculty, staff, students, parents) and school buildings, thus motivating and supporting young citizens’ behavioural change to achieve greater energy efficiency. A mixture of open-source IoT hardware and proprietary platforms on the infrastructure level, are currently being utilized for monitoring a fleet of 18 educational buildings across 3 countries, comprising over 700 IoT monitoring points. Hereon presented is the system’s high-level architecture, as well as several aspects of its implementation, related to the application domain of educational building monitoring and energy efficiency. The system is developed based on open-source technologies and services in order to make it capable of providing open IT-infrastructure and support from different commercial hardware/sensor vendors as well as open-source solutions. The system presented can be used to develop and offer new app-based solutions that can be used either for educational purposes or for managing the energy efficiency of the building. The system is replicable and adaptable to settings that may be different than the scenarios envisioned here (e.g., targeting different climate zones), different IT infrastructures and can be easily extended to accommodate integration with other systems. The overall performance of the system is evaluated in real-world environment in terms of scalability, responsiveness and simplicity.

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An IoT-Based Solution for Monitoring a Fleet of Educational Buildings Focusing on Energy Efficiency

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Mylonas

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Sensors

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“…End users (students, teachers, and building managers) may access the latest notifications and query previously triggered notifications through a building management web application that was developed within GAIA [55]. Leveraging the REST APIs that are exposed by the rule engine, this web application also enables authorized users to create new simple threshold rules and to instantiate the built-in rules, which are listed in Table 3.…”

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A RESTful Rule Management Framework for Internet of Things Applications

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Web technologies are currently regarded as key enabling factors for the Internet of Things (IoT), and substantial effort is being dedicated to bringing sensors and data from the real world to the Web. In addition, rule-based automation mechanisms are expected to play a significant role in the effective integration of the physical world with the virtual world by leveraging a trigger-action paradigm. Although several rule engines are already available, limited effort has been devoted to rule-based solutions that are tailored to the IoT and consider rule configurability and extensibility according to application requirements. In this work, we propose a RESTful rule management framework for IoT applications that satisfies these requirements. The framework is centered around a resource-based graph, which enables the uniform representation of things (e.g., sensors and domain entities) and rules as URI-addressable resources. We describe the design and implementation choices of the main rule management features (rule scheduling, activation and RESTful operations for managing rules at various levels of configurability and extensibility). Finally, we present a case study and performance evaluation results regarding the use of this rule management framework in a set of school buildings that were part of a real-world IoT deployment that was realized within the Horizon 2020 GAIA research project, with the objective of promoting energy-saving behaviors in school communities. INDEX TERMS Behavior-based energy saving, education, Internet of Things, REST, rule engine, Web of Things.

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“…Other related approaches are reporting on IoT enabled gamification, targeting reduced energy consumption in public buildings [36] and [35].…”

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Scenarios for Educational and Game Activities using Internet of Things Data

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Mavrommati

Mylonas

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2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)

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Raising awareness among young people and changing their behavior and habits concerning energy usage and the environment is key to achieving a sustainable planet. The goal to address the global climate problem requires informing the population on their roles in mitigation actions and adaptation of sustainable behaviors. Addressing climate change and achieve ambitious energy and climate targets requires a change in citizen behavior and consumption practices.IoT sensing and related scenario and practices, which address school children via discovery, gamification, and educational activities, are examined in this paper. Use of seawater sensors in STEM education, that has not previously been addressed, is included in these educational scenaria.

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Addressing behavioral change towards energy efficiency in European educational buildings

Cited by 9 publications

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An IoT-Based Solution for Monitoring a Fleet of Educational Buildings Focusing on Energy Efficiency

An IoT-Based Solution for Monitoring a Fleet of Educational Buildings Focusing on Energy Efficiency

A RESTful Rule Management Framework for Internet of Things Applications

Scenarios for Educational and Game Activities using Internet of Things Data

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