3e-Houses

3eHouses deals to build the customers into the energy system through ICTs, allowing them to develop or enhance their relationship with the environment by piloting in several social housing buildings the interaction between smart devices and the users. It is a project founded under CIP-ICT-PSP-2009.4.1: ICT for energy efficiency in social housing. 3e-HOUSES deals with the integration of the most established ICT technologies in social housing in order to provide an innovative service for energy efficiency: real time monitoring and management of the energy consumption; integration of renewable energies; creating the resources to lower energy consumption. The described new services will allow the integration of renewable energy and other sources of distributed energies. As well it is expected to achieve a reduction around 20% in energy consumption in social buildings, by means of the real time monitoring, and management and control systems.