GLOW-Energy nested bio system flows:from the home to the hub

GLOW-Energy 嵌套生物系统流程：从家到中心

• 批准号: EP/V041770/1
• 负责人: Sonja Oliveira
• 金额: $ 59.36万
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV041770%2F1
• 关键词: GLOW; Energy; nested; bio; system

The aim of this project is to provide an innovative dynamic approach to transform how people manage energy in homes inspired by bees' social organization and communication. A new computational system is developed to identify and communicate inefficiencies found between individual household energy use and community energy demand. Bees have evolved an efficient mechanism to communicate collective needs at an individual level in responsive and targeted ways that humans have not. The new system draws on behavioural patterns found in bees as a way to communicate an optimised approach to managing energy behaviour in homes in a responsive, targeted and effective way.Currently, energy in homes is managed through technologies that are designed to alert users to reduce their use when passing a designed threshold. These thresholds are derived mostly from technical data rather than evidence that takes into account the social values and approaches to community, ways of living and home character. It is well established that despite being alerted to change how they use energy, most users do not alter their behaviour in the longer term. This lack of responsiveness is seen to occur mainly through not taking into account users' values, their homes' social and spatial character and ways of living. Energy demand in housing is growing and diversifying with predicted carbon emissions from homes significantly impacting on health and wellbeing of society as a whole. Without a significant step change in the status quo, the long-term impacts of managing energy demand unsustainably in housing are critical.Working closely with three housing communities and industry partners, the research will use mixed methods to study how energy is used in homes and how this varies between different communities. The existing behavioural patterns across the three housing communities will be studied and identified inefficiencies will be computationally optimised using learning found in bees' communication protocols. The developed computational system prototype will be tested initially through a web-based app, through which potential users could engage in a selection of behaviour change scenarios based on their inputs related to their self-identified behavioural patterns. Engagement and responses from the app will be studied and presented at two separate citizen juries in order to develop a holistic understanding into potential prototype service applications across a range of communities and sectors. The project extends current work in EPSRC Energy and Digital Economy themes and provides multiple benefits not just through the developed prototype but also in evidencing use of innovative mixed methods that may be applied in future technology innovation studies in a range of sectors including energy. Findings will benefit a range of stakeholders including residents, housing developers, energy policymakers, energy technology developers, architects and housing associations. The project will benefit residents through enabling a user-focused and evidence-based approach to managing energy in homes, whilst housing developers can gain a better holistic understanding of how energy is used in homes and how its spatial and social configuration supports net-zero carbon design and development. Energy policymakers will benefit from gaining new insights and an evidence base that offer social and spatial knowledge, household behavioural patterns, and social responses that will better inform future sustainable energy demand management. Building on a growing interest in sustainable energy transitions and energy democracy, this project offers an accelerated approach for both communities and individuals to forge a new relationship with energy. Though the focus is on the energy sector and housing, findings from this project have wider implications and potential benefits in the food supply chain for instance where collective needs necessitate an optimised individual response.

该项目的目的是提供一种创新的动态方法，以改变人们在蜜蜂社会组织和交流的启发下管理家庭能源的方式。一个新的计算系统的开发，以确定和沟通个人家庭能源使用和社区能源需求之间发现的低效率。蜜蜂已经进化出一种有效的机制，可以在个人层面上以人类所没有的响应和有针对性的方式传达集体需求。新系统借鉴了蜜蜂的行为模式，以一种响应、有针对性和有效的方式传达优化的家庭能源管理方法。目前，家庭能源管理通过旨在提醒用户在超过设计阈值时减少使用的技术进行。这些阈值大多来自技术数据，而不是考虑到社会价值观和社区方法、生活方式和家庭特征的证据。众所周知，尽管被提醒改变他们使用能源的方式，但大多数用户在长期内不会改变他们的行为。人们认为，这种缺乏回应的情况主要是由于没有考虑到用户的价值观、其住宅的社会和空间特征以及生活方式。住房的能源需求正在增长和多样化，预计家庭的碳排放将对整个社会的健康和福祉产生重大影响。如果现状没有重大改变，管理住房能源需求的长期影响是至关重要的。该研究将与三个住房社区和行业合作伙伴密切合作，使用混合方法来研究家庭如何使用能源以及不同社区之间的差异。将研究三个住宅社区的现有行为模式，并使用蜜蜂通信协议中的学习来优化计算效率。开发的计算系统原型最初将通过一个基于网络的应用程序进行测试，潜在用户可以通过该应用程序根据其与自我确定的行为模式有关的输入参与选择行为改变情景。该应用程序的参与和响应将在两个独立的公民陪审团中进行研究和展示，以便对一系列社区和部门的潜在原型服务应用程序进行全面了解。该项目扩展了EPSRC能源和数字经济主题的现有工作，不仅通过开发的原型，而且还证明了创新混合方法的使用，这些方法可能适用于包括能源在内的一系列部门的未来技术创新研究。调查结果将有利于一系列利益相关者，包括居民，住房开发商，能源政策制定者，能源技术开发商，建筑师和住房协会。该项目将通过以用户为中心和以证据为基础的方法来管理家庭能源，使居民受益，而住房开发商可以更好地全面了解能源在家庭中的使用方式，以及其空间和社会配置如何支持净零碳设计和开发。能源政策制定者将受益于获得新的见解和证据基础，这些见解和证据基础提供社会和空间知识、家庭行为模式和社会反应，从而更好地为未来的可持续能源需求管理提供信息。在可持续能源转型和能源民主日益增长的兴趣的基础上，该项目为社区和个人提供了一种加速的方法，以建立与能源的新关系。虽然重点是能源部门和住房，但该项目的研究结果在食品供应链中具有更广泛的影响和潜在利益，例如集体需求需要优化个人反应。

项目成果

Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research

超越能源服务：家庭能源管理研究的多维和跨学科议程

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102347
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Energy Research & Social Science
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Oliveira S

A socially intelligent approach to consumers' collective capabilities in smart grids

智能电网中消费者集体能力的社会智能方法

• DOI: 10.1109/smartgridcomm57358.2023.10333929
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Bagheri-Moghaddam F

Inspiration from animal's collective behavior for home energy demand management

动物集体行为对家庭能源需求管理的启发

• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2600/2/022013
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Conference Series
• 作者: Badarnah L

From individuals to collectives in energy systems - A social practice, identity and rhythm inspired lens

从能源系统中的个人到集体——社会实践、身份和节奏启发的镜头

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103279
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Energy Research & Social Science
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Oliveira S

Assemblages of home energy rhythms - from the individual to the collective

家庭能量节奏的组合——从个人到集体

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Oliveira,S