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，以告知消费者在家庭能源使用和运输方面其行为对其碳足迹的影响。这是一个为期两年的可行性研究。有一个关于传感器，传感器网络，传感器信息聚合的知识体系，我们可以建立。但是，虽然有许多系统用于监测和通知消费者能源使用情况，但这些系统往往是封闭的系统，其中信息服务提供者控制基础设施，无论是能源供应商、道路交通信息系统还是建筑物管理系统。这项工作的基础假设有三个方面：i）全球部署的解决方案将使用移动的电话与用户交互（因为在世界许多地方，这是唯一的信息基础设施）;ii）我们对信息应用程序如何影响个人和集体用户行为的认识存在差距; andiii）我们需要既能提供灵活性以允许部署的应用程序的快速发展，又具有商业可行性的平台。这不是一项技术开发研究;构建模块-传感器网络和移动的手机-是可用的。它审查了两个不同但相互作用的挑战：㈠开发和发展引人注目和有影响力的能源信息应用;以及（ii）提供大规模的商业平台，独立的应用程序提供商可以根据观察到的行为在该平台上进行这种开发和演变。将审查能源意识应用程序、传感器聚合和一般方法（以用户为中心的应用程序开发、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的多学科团队。该项目的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。中国移动的已为该项目投入了10万美元的人力和其他成本。世界上最大的移动的运营商中国移动的是该项目的关键合作伙伴。在展示了接受商业模式和部署中间服务（如传感器信息聚合）的意愿之后，该项目的主要成果将通过中国移动的或其全球合作伙伴之一，以及通过诺丁汉和剑桥的地平线数字经济中心，转化为商业开发。

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.