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Overview
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This project will develop a wireless sensor/actuator information infrastructure within and beyond the home to enable residents both locally and remotely to intelligently and easily monitor and control energy use.
Currently, generic home appliance networks are not energy saving focused and most of them need installing new cabling, which is expensive, time-consuming and disruptive, or using less reliable existing electrical cables. In consequence, the use of current smart home technologies was limited to middle and upper income homeowners who could afford to pay for expensive one-off solutions, often based on security and entertainment.
This project will develop a wireless sensor/actuator home network, which is easy-to-install, affordable, and energy-saving focused. This project will aim to save 40 per cent of domestic energy used for every family home by taking consideration of various parameters inside and around the home including weather conditions.
The project will be demonstrated in the test house of Advantica (formal British Gas Research Centre). The consortium encompasses industry, research, and end user partners. IndeedNET is led by Advantica, the formal British Gas Research Centre in collaboration with Sure, a home automation device manufacturer, East Midlands Housing Association as an end-user, and Loughborough University as the provider of an innovative technologies.
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