Attempts to visualise energy and reconnect people [with energy!] Dr. Richard Bull

B y i t s n a t u r e , ‘ e n e r g y ’ i s a n a b s t r a c t a n d i n v i s i b l e f o r c e t h a t i s c o n c e p t u a l i s e d o r c o m m o n l y d e f i n e d i n a n u m b e r o f d i f f e r e n t w a y s , f o r e x a m p l e a s a c o m m o d i t y, a s a s o c i a l n e c e s s i t y, a s a n e c o l o g i c a l r e s o u r c e , o r a s a s t r a t e g i c m a t e r i a l . *

* B u r g e s s & N y e ( 2 0 0 8 ) , R e - m a t e r i a l i s i n g e n e r g y u s e t h r o u g h t r a n s p a r e n t m o n i t o r i n g s y s t e m s , E n e r g y

P o l i c y

3 research projects funded by

1. DUALL

2. Greenview

3. PROCO2

DUALL

the aim?

To understand the role of ICT in reducing energy consumption of a large scale public building through the design of an ICT interface connecting building users to their electricity consumption.

BASELINE EVALUATION & SWITCH OFF

greenview

the aim?

To design a leading edge smart phone and web based application enabling building users to understand the energy consumption of the buildings across DMU.

TRANSPARENCY

The principle idea is to reveal the level of energy variations in near real time in precise university building locations using augmented reality tools on common smartphones.

EMPEDIA AND AUGMENTED REALITY

The Empedia (www.empedia.info) platform has been developed under a KTP agreementbetween De Montfort and Cuttlefish Multimedia for iphone and Android platformsIt will be enhanced with an Augmented reality browser for Greenview applications

PROCO2

the aim?

To develop an ICT based decision making tool to enable DMU to reduce scope 3 emissions, notably procurement

DMU GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY SECTOR AND BY SCOPE (2008/09)

Thank you for listening.Dr Richard Bullrbull@dmu.ac.ukduall.dmu.ac.uk