Projects

Our research projects are embedded in practical settings and require a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving. Cooperation with industry provides the inspiration, data-basis, and infrastructure for our experiments and for testing our ideas. The individual research contributions revolve around highly specific and detailed questions, which are deeply rooted in a specific research domain. Selected topics we are currently addressing are outlined below:

• aWattgarde

  

  aWattgarde is an internet platform that applies social psychology and marketing concepts to motivate households to conserve energy.

• eMeter

  

  eMeter is a platform to develop, test, and put powerful energy feedback concepts into practice.

• Amphiro

  

  The Amphiro team develops and evaluates a water usage gauge that is applicable to showers and taps.

• Motivating energy saving with ICT

  

  Motivating energy saving by means of marketing and ICT. This project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

• Feedback technologies for e-Vehicles

  

  Feedback Technologies for Electric Vehicles evaluates the impact of feedback information on the driver.

• Carbon accounting

  

  The Bits to Energy Lab is developing concepts and prototypes for automated carbon accounting in the supply chain and for product carbon footprint visualization on mobile phones.

• Eco-efficient supply chains

  

  Information gathered by low-cost sensors can improve logistic decision-making. The eco-efficient supply chain project investigates how this information can be used to reduce waste and carbon emissions.

• Special Interest Group

  

  The SIG smart metering and energy-aware devices brings together companies from various sectors to promote the vision of a sustainable development through ICT.