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An IoT-Based Gamified Approach for Reducing Occupants’ Energy Wastage in Public Buildings

Conserving energy amenable to the activities of occupants in public buildings is a particularly challenging objective that includes associating energy consumption to particular individuals and providing them with incentives to alter their behavior. This paper describes a gamification framework that...

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Autores principales: Papaioannou, Thanasis G., Dimitriou, Nikos, Vasilakis, Kostas, Schoofs, Anthony, Nikiforakis, Manolis, Pursche, Fabian, Deliyski, Nikolay, Taha, Amr, Kotsopoulos, Dimosthenis, Bardaki, Cleopatra, Kotsilitis, Sarantis, Garbi, Anastasia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5855919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29439414
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18020537
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Sumario:Conserving energy amenable to the activities of occupants in public buildings is a particularly challenging objective that includes associating energy consumption to particular individuals and providing them with incentives to alter their behavior. This paper describes a gamification framework that aims to facilitate achieving greater energy conservation in public buildings. The framework leverages IoT-enabled low-cost devices, to improve energy disaggregation mechanisms that provide energy use and—consequently—wastage information at the device, area and end-user level. The identified wastages are concurrently targeted by a gamified application that motivates respective behavioral changes combining team competition, virtual rewards and life simulation. Our solution is being developed iteratively with the end-users’ engagement during the analysis, design, development and validation phases in public buildings located in three different countries: Luxembourg (Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art), Spain (EcoUrbanBuilding, Institut Català d’Energia headquarters, Barcelona) and Greece (General Secretariat of the Municipality of Athens).