A innovative data-driven platform to improve manufacturing energy savings through proactive, targeted employee interventions

一个创新的数据驱动平台，通过主动、有针对性的员工干预来改善制造节能

• 批准号: 10042847
• 金额: $ 5.86万
• 依托单位: BEACON TECHNOLOGY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10042847
• 关键词: innovative; data; driven; platform; improve

Behavioural change has an important part to play in continuing the momentum of energy-efficiency improvements made by UK industry over the past 20 year. As quick-payback technological solutions like LED-lighting have already been widely implemented, enacting behavioural change stands apart as being implementable without significant capital investment.Implementing behavioural change can however be challenging without good user engagement, and even harder to maintain in the long term, as old habits tend to easily resurface.Beacon Technology's innovation is a proactive energy-savings intervention platform. Using data-streams already available in a business (from MRPs, energy monitoring, machine output sensors) and configurable logic rules, energy-saving interventions can be issued to employees in real-time via SMS/in-app notification. Each intervention will explain the action to take, the potential benefit it will have, and ask the employee for feedback if they chose not to action the suggestion.The difference from current behavioural change practice in manufacturing is stark. Rather than a poster on a machine saying 'switch off after use', the machine's operator will receive a message saying 'Machine 1 will not run again for 4 hours. Switch the machine off. This will save 24 kWh of electricity and 5.5 kg CO2'.This project will develop a demonstrator-prototype of the proposed innovation on Beacon Technology's existing web-application, native-app and core back-end services, for trial at two energy-intensive manufacturing sites. The project will provide valuable feedback on ability to use existing business data-streams to generate real-time interventions, user engagement and comparative energy consumption against baseline data. The outcome for Beacon Technology will be significant progress towards an MVP solution for deployment and case-study/white paper information to support business development.

在过去20年中，行为改变在英国工业继续提高能源效率的势头中发挥了重要作用。由于LED照明等快速回报的技术解决方案已经得到广泛应用，因此无需大量资本投资即可实施行为改变。然而，如果没有良好的用户参与，实施行为改变可能具有挑战性，而且从长远来看更难维持，因为旧习惯往往很容易重新出现。Beacon Technology的创新是一个积极的节能干预平台。利用企业中已有的数据流（来自MRP、能源监控、机器输出传感器）和可配置的逻辑规则，可以通过短信/应用内通知实时向员工发布节能干预措施。每一次干预都将解释要采取的行动，它将带来的潜在好处，并要求员工反馈，如果他们选择不采取行动的建议。机器上的海报不是说“使用后关闭”，而是机器的操作员会收到一条消息说“机器1将在4小时内不再运行”。把机器关掉。这将节省24千瓦时的电力和5.5公斤的二氧化碳。该项目将开发一个示范原型的建议创新的灯塔科技现有的网络应用程序，本地应用程序和核心后端服务，试验在两个能源密集型制造基地。该项目将提供宝贵的反馈意见，说明是否有能力利用现有业务数据流进行实时干预、用户参与和对照基线数据进行能耗比较。Beacon Technology的成果将是在部署MVP解决方案和案例研究/白色文件信息方面取得重大进展，以支持业务发展。