ICE-WISH

The objective of this demonstration project is to design, integrate and pilot an innovative solution for social housing, using mature and interactive ICT, to enable sustained reductions of energy and water consumption of at least 15% below the current practice, without compromising living conditions, across 300 social dwellings in 10 European countries, with latitudes ranging from 56oN to 38oN. This is to be addressed:- providing a ‘user-friendly’ and widely accessible ICT-based service to engage individual households as active players in developing water and energy conservation practices, managing energy and water usage in an optimal way and optimising their living environment;- providing effective and real-time ICT monitoring and control of energy and water usage and environmental conditions and user behaviour;- providing social landlords, local, regional and national public decision-makers with real-life information in order to encourage them to implement environmental-energy-related policy actions, incentives or/and investments decisions at public and private level.During the 3-years project duration, the ICE-WISH consortium will carry out a daily commitment to implement and optimize the service for social housing. For this, user and operational requirements will be captured, investigating with households and interested parties, during the first months of the project. Results will be used to establish service specifications and finalise the service architecture for monitoring a treated group of 30 dwellings at each pilot site.This will cumulate in the integration and operation of the ICE-WISH service for more than 12 months in 10 pilot sites. Within this operation phase, a continuous management of customised information with real-time data and feedback on resource consumption, a real-time advice/ guidance on optimum operation of the building systems and components, an assessment of value of access to the offered interactive service and an assessment of service viability and operability will be provided.