Collaborative Recommendations and Adaptive Control for Personalized Energy Saving (enCOMPASS)

The enCompass project aimed to implement and validate an integrated social and technical approach to energy-saving-related behavioural change. This was done through the development of innovative, user-friendly digital tools that make energy consumption data accessible and understandable to different consumers and stakeholders (residents, workers, students, directors of construction companies, utilities, and information technology providers), enabling them to work together to save energy and manage their energy needs in cost-effective and comfort-saving ways. The solutions that were developed were tested by realistic pilot studies that assessed the impact of elements of behaviour change in three different types of buildings (residential buildings, schools and public buildings) in three different climatic zones and three different cultural environments – Greece, Germany and Switzerland. Other partners benefited from the smart applications developments, energy tip database, fun energy game, etc., developed within the project and pilot-practice experiences.