eTEACHER EMPOWER TOOLS

eTEACHER empower tools are a set of information and communication technologies that aim to encourage and enable energy behaviour change of builiding users to save energy and optimise indoor environmental quality.

eTEACHER empower tools have a BACS (Building Automation and Control System) communication layer, an analysis layer and a user interface layer with following interfaces and services:

• UBCI is an universal BACS communication interface whose mission is to collect, and store monitoring data from buildings and facilities.
• Metrix is a data processing service aiming to transform inputs from sensors data in buildings into performance metrics on energy and indoor environmental quality by comparing actual measurements with predetermined targets.
• Pulse is a digital service that analyses end-user feedback on indoor environment quality and its relation to buildings´ systems performance.
• What-if analysis (WiA) is a service that identifies energy conservation measures based on behavioural change of building users by processing monitoring data and by taking into account building and facilities features.
• The Users’ Application provides tailored advice on energy savings and indoor environmental quality based on the analysis of the above mentioned services. It uses gamification methods such as notifations and missions, bonus system, energy literacy and energy visibility to encourage end-users on behavioural change.