C-AWARE: Enabling Consumer Awareness of Carbon Footprint Through Mobile Service Innovation (Cambridge/Nottingham/Exeter)

C-AWARE旨在提供应用程序，告知消费者在家庭能源使用和交通运输的背景下，他们的行为对碳足迹的影响。这是一项为期两年的可行性研究。有一个关于传感器、传感器网络和传感器信息聚合的知识体系，我们可以在此基础上进行构建。但是，虽然有许多系统用于监测和通知消费者有关能源使用情况，但这些系统往往是封闭的系统，其中信息服务提供控制基础设施，可能是能源供应商，道路交通信息系统或建筑物管理系统。这项工作的基础假设有三个方面：1)全球部署的解决方案将使用移动电话与用户进行交互（因为在世界上许多地方，这是唯一的信息基础设施）；Ii)我们对信息应用如何影响个人和集体用户行为的认识存在差距；我们需要的平台既要具有灵活性，允许已部署应用程序的快速演进，又要具有商业可行性。这不是一项技术发展研究；构建模块——传感器网络和移动手机——是可用的。它考察了两个不同但相互作用的挑战：(i)开发和发展引人注目和有影响力的能源信息应用；（ii）提供一个大规模的商业平台，在这个平台上，独立的应用程序提供商可以根据观察到的行为进行这种开发和演变。在每种情况下，将审查具体实例（能源意识应用、传感器聚合）和一般方法（以用户为中心的应用开发、中间网络服务）。为了应对这些挑战，我们汇集了来自剑桥、诺丁汉、埃克塞特和中国移动的多学科团队。专业知识包括商业建模、网络和分布式系统、安全、心理学和社会学。中国移动已经为这个项目分配了10万美元的人员和其他费用。全球最大的移动运营商中国移动（China Mobile）是该项目的关键合作伙伴。中国移动已表明，愿意采用商业模式，并部署中间服务（如传感器信息聚合），以允许第三方进行应用创新。除了对所描述的问题（以及许多子问题）提供见解外，该项目的主要产出将通过中国移动或其全球合作伙伴之一以及诺丁汉和剑桥的地平线数字经济中心转移到商业开发中。

C-AWARE is directed at providing applications to inform consumers of the impact of their behaviour on their carbon footprint, in the context of home energy use and transport. It is a two year feasibility study.There is body of knowledge about sensors, sensor networks, and aggregation of sensor information on which we can build. But while there are a number of systems for monitoring and informing consumers about energy use, these tend to be closed systems in which the information service provide controls the infrastructure, be this an energy provider, a road traffic information system, or a building management system.The assumptions which underlie this work are threefold:i) that globally deployed solutions will use mobile phones to interact with users (since in many parts of the world this is the only information infrastructure);ii) that there is a gap in our knowledge about how information applications can influence user behaviour both individually and as a collective; andiii) that we require platforms that both give flexibility to allow the rapid evolution of deployed applications, and are commercially viable.This is not a technology development study; the building blocks - sensor networks and mobile handsets - are available. It is an examination of two distinct but interacting challenges: (i) developing and evolving compelling and influential energy information applications; and(ii) providing a large scale commercial platform on which this development and evolution can be undertaken by independent application providers in light of observed behaviour.In each case the specific instances (energy awareness application, sensor aggregation) and general methodologies (user-centric application development, intermediate network services) will be examined. To meet these challenges we have brought together a multidisciplinary team from Cambridge, Nottingham, Exeter, and China Mobile. The expertise includes business modelling, networking and distributed systems, security, psychology, and sociology.China Mobile have allocated $100k in personnel and other costs to this project.China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator are a key partner in this project, having demonstrated a willingness to entertain business models and deploy intermediate services - such as aggregation of sensor information - to allow application innovation by third parties.As well as providing insights into the problems described (and many subproblems) the main output of this project will transferred to commercial exploitation via China Mobile or one of its global partners and via the Horizon Digital Economy Hub at Nottingham and Cambridge.