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The DEHEMS Project

The DEHEMS Project. December 2008. Heike Schuster-James - Operations Manager Digital Development & Communities Service Birmingham. DEHEMS. Digital Environment Home Energy Management System European Project 7 th Framework Programme R&D - Cooperation Theme. The Facts.

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The DEHEMS Project

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  1. The DEHEMS Project December 2008 Heike Schuster-James - Operations Manager Digital Development & Communities Service Birmingham

  2. DEHEMS • Digital Environment Home Energy Management System • European Project • 7th Framework ProgrammeR&D - Cooperation Theme

  3. The Facts • 2.9m € EC contribution • Lead: Manchester City Council • B’ham role: delivery partner, €100kDigital Birmingham and BeBham Environmental Partnership • Timeframe: June08-Nov10 (30 months)

  4. 15 European Partners

  5. What Birmingham does • Test bed with 50 homes (Living Lab) • 250 in EU – B’ham, Bristol, Manchester, Plovdiv, Russe • Cycle 1 = 60 total UK

  6. http://status.dehems.org/dashboard.html

  7. What Birmingham does • Cycle 1 – Jan 09 - Mar 0920 homes, technology testing, use cases • Cycle 2 – summer 0950 homes, device measuring, • Cycle 3 – spring 201050 homes • Research, focus groups, behaviour study

  8. Project aims and outputs • Software and website • Intelligent metering for electricity • Valuable real-time data and database • Device metering • Research in user behaviour • Development of Living Lab methodology

  9. Progress to Date – Living Labs • Family Hsg Association on Board • 20plus households lined up • 60 smart metres purchased and hubs configured • System 1st version live – 5 users testing • 1st survey done, 640 B’ham responses • User agreement drafted

  10. Progress to Date - technical • Server purchased and set up • First simulation model created • Source code being published to Open Source community • IBM free licence received for Informix IDS

  11. Challenges and plans • EC project review 29/01/2009 • Advancing state of the art – R&D • Moving from MySQL to time series DB • Scaleability to millions of households • Including gas (planned) and more data • Involving Open Source Community

  12. Opportunities

  13. Opportunities • Smart Home plans • CO2 trading • Living Lab – business model • Community engagement and skills

  14. A Living Lab is both a methodology for User Driven Innovation (UDI) and the organisations that primarily use it Looking for new solutions, new products, new services or new business models What is a Living Lab?

  15. What is a Living Lab? Citizens + Research + real life environment = Living Lab

  16. Living Lab Concept • Human centric • User driven innovation

  17. Living Lab Concept • Iterative • Cycle

  18. Living Lab Concept • Public + Private + • Citizen + Research + • Multiple Disciplines • = • Partnership Approach

  19. A Short Living Lab History 1990 2000 2008 LISBON ENoLL B’HAM MIT

  20. The Birmingham LL • DEHEMS • Smart Metering • June 2008- Nov 2010 • 50 Households B’ham • 250 UK and EU

  21. Issues for Living Labs • IPR- Creative Commons • Motivation for real-life participants • Roles in public-private-citizen partnership • Research needed to understand open innovation

  22. Benefits of a Living Lab • Avoidance of costly design failures • Sparking ideas of multiple disciplines • Higher acceptance of Products and Services • Building strong partnerships • Added value through Creative Commons • Increased competitiveness

  23. Thank you for listening

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