Smart energy users in social housing by BECA ICT service

The European Commission is supporting many projects to reach the European targets in energy savings and diffusion of renewable resources. The BECA — Balanced European Conservation Approach — ICT Service for Resources Saving in Social Housing, is a project in the frame of 7th ICT-PSP program that involves seven different cities in Europe. The target of the project is to build, and spread among the final users, ICT based services that can improve the energy use awareness of people, without a specific education in the use of energy. Some ICT based services: web services and sms services have been developed and applied in three different sites in Torino (Italy), taking into account the peculiarities of each site. In order to modify the behavior of the final users about energy, an ICT service that allows the comparison of energy consumption (actual consumptions vs past consumptions and consumptions vs middle user's consumptions), has been developed. The ICT service has been made available to the final users and operators in the managing staff.