G-SCOP (CNRS UMR5272, Grenoble Institute of Technology, University Grenoble Alpes) is a Laboratory hosting researchers that have been working on energy management for buildings from 2005. Main topics developed around building systems are optimized multi-scale energy management, usage prediction, self-learning algorithms of usage and system models, simulation of usage in building systems, discriminating usage/performance diagnosis of building systems. A prototype of global model based anticipative energy manager, named G-homeTech, has been developed at G-SCOP lab in the context of the Multisol ANR project. It has led to the birth of Vesta-System Cie. With the INVOLVED ANR project, G-SCOP has developed with its partners, inhabitant engaging solutions to involve inhabitants in energy management thanks to interactive and cooperative energy managers.
I2M is the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of Bordeaux (University of Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5295). The department of the institute involved in this project is TREFLE (Energy, Fluids and Transfers). This project is directly related to the research activities developed by the Building and Systems Energy team related to energy performance modeling and guarantee of constructions. I2M has a long experience of collaborative projects: ANR Fiabilité, OMEGA, COMIS and REHA-PARCS and AMI ADEME COMEPOS. These different projects have enabled the team to develop expertise in the methodologies for assessing the risks associated with the expected energy performance after retrofitting and in the field of performance verification through in-situ measurements in order to explain the discrepancies between the expected performance (design phase) and that actually observed (in the operation/occupancy phase of the building). More recently, work has been initiated to estimate user activities in the context of individual housing.
The « Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction » (HCI) team of the LIG (UMR CNRS 5217) is specialized in the design of incentive HCIs whose objective is to enable the user to understand physical phenomena and to act virtuously. Making the user’s behavior visible (mirror MMI) and its impact, suggesting alternative behaviors (action plan), rewarding progress, soliciting the social dimension are all possible design options. The team has built a design framework for incentive MMIs and has applied it in several areas including energy, health and procrastination. It is also at the origin of the AFIHM PISTIL working group on incentive HMIs. The energy research was conducted in partnership with LIG/APTIKAL and the G-SCOP, whose achievements are now integrated into a demonstrator including mirror HMI, decision support and action plan.
The Algorithms, Principles and Theories for cooperative Knowledge Acquisition and Learning (APTIKAL) team in LIG lab, has been working for 20 years in the field of ambient intelligence, the meeting of artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. He is particularly interested in incremental approaches allowing a system to learn progressively, throughout its interactions with its environment and users. He has been collaborating for 10 years with G-SCOP on the theme of the contribution of ambient intelligence to the energy management of residential buildings. This collaboration has resulted in a defended thesis and two PhD in progress.
Founded in 2016 by three PhDs in energy from MINES ParisTech and a computer scientist, Kocliko offers a platform for controlling energy and comfort in housing. Kocliko works for builders, developers, social landlords and condominiums, on collective and individual housing. By combining sensor data and physical models, the platform has a predictive capacity, including the behavior of the inhabitants, and offers services like control of the boiler-room, individualization of heating costs, awareness of the inhabitants, recommendation of optimized investments in energy efficiency. Kocliko industrialized results from academic research on stochastic modeling of inhabitants’ behavior, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, performance measurement and verification, and multi-criteria optimization for construction or renovation. Co-founders of Kocliko have several experiences in collaborative projects (ANR OMEGA, ANR PRECCISION, ANR INTENSE, ADEME ComforTech).
GAEL’s Energy and Sustainable Consumption teams are conducting research on household behavior in terms of energy consumption using behavioral economics (UMR 1215 CNRS/INRAE/UGA/Grenoble-INP). Based on solid experience in laboratory experiments and also in field, research programs have been developed over the past 3 years in conjunction with energy and computer science research teams, which focus on monetary (effort pricing) and non-monetary (nudges) mechanisms aimed at developing sources of consumption flexibility. Currently, these teams have a representative sample of 180 households in the Grenoble region that have been monitored for 18 months on their electricity consumption (via Linky hourly data), half of which are subject to a non-monetary mechanism of commitments to flexibility during peak periods (EXPESIGNO research program). This observation and analysis system has made it possible to build up a behavioral database of reference for academic circles.