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Luleå Living Lab Pilot

A warm welcome to the Kulturens Hus (House of culture) in Luleå,the northern metropolis of Sweden and cultural town district of 2007.

In the spring of 2005 the rst sod was cut and in January 2007 the

opening took place. House of culture is Luleå’s new meeting place,completing the image of Luleå as a town where cultural expressionsgather under the same roof, cross-fertilize each other and give thevisitors experiences above what was earlier possible. With 13.900square meters of public area and 6.000 square meters of garagearea, in 2008 the building with 80 persons in its staff has received564.231 visitors.

The building a a Library, Concert Hall, Restaurant, Café, Art Gallery,Tourist Agency, Conference and Ofce areas. The selected roomsfor the SAVE ENERGY pilot are the restaurant, ofces and entrancedoors. The building is equipped with a completely new state-of-the-art energy management systems controlling the environment forevery room of the building.The house of culture is connected to the district heating systemand district cooling system which works with the nature, using coldwater from the river. The heat dump is located in the town bay.The build has a high level energy management system but aimsto achieve more energy savings involving and promoting users’

awareness. The Luleå pilot team divided the building into different

improvement areas that were equipped with the necessary Smart

Metering equipment.

The total energy consumption is measured for the whole house.

There are four areas selected for testing. These are the restaurant,

two separate sections of ofce rooms and the main entrance doors.For the restaurant, electricity, temperature, hot and cold waterconsumption (energy) is measured. For the ofces electricity is

measured. For the entrance doors the user behaviour is measured

directly by counting the number of persons using the “open door

button” or not.For the entrance doors the measurement of user behaviour changes

is achieved in three steps. Step one was measuring the “old” wayof using the entrance doors. In step two a text saying “please helpus save energy” is introduced. In step three ICT technologies areintroduced to “support” the user taking the “right” decision.The creation of awareness and change of behaviour by the usersof the Luleå pilot is also driven from the Serious Game and theestablishment of the Living Lab methodology. A Living Lab was

created at the pilot premises and thus being an active environment,where the users of the pilot contribute to the co-creation of

innovative solutions and motivate themselves to change their energy

consumption behaviours.

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Luleå Technical Solution

Energy consumption measurements at Kulturens

Hus are being collected using a Saber based

solution system and an MbusMaster system,both developed by KYAB Luleå AB. The differentmetering devices were interfaced with MBus, usingan MBusMaster acting as a hub. The MbusMaster

interfaces several metering devices, connecting

them to the Saber system via RS485 interfaces,i.e. ModBus/MBus.The data collected by the Saber system is stored inits local database and forwarded every minute (or

whenever there is internet connection available)to the Saber Web Portal. At the Saber Web Portal,the data is stored into a secured database. The

web portal provides a user friendly interface forremotely viewing and understanding the data as

statistics, graphs and comparison trends.The data is also feed back to Kulturens Hus into

computer integrated 15” and 42” LCD displayswhich show a simple to understand, user friendly

and graphical representation of the pilot’s

progress in lowering energy consumption at thebuilding. The presentation is not only viewed byon site building staff, but also by the visitors and

customers of Kulturens Hus, who have access toit. Furthermore, the data collected at the buildingis also forwarded to the ISA central platform

service to be used by end-user services, namelySerious Games.

The metering devices installed at Kulturens

Hus allow the collection of data on electricityconsumption at the restaurant and the two ofce

spaces, air temperature and hot and cold water

consumption at the restaurant areas. Additionally

the use of the building’s main entrance doors ismonitored, which has great impact in maintaining

the building’s internal temperature, especially

considering the northern Sweden’s cold weather.

Contact address:

ALFAMICRO

Alameda da Guia, 192A2750-368 Cascais - PortugalPhone: + 351 214 866 784E-mail: mail@alfamicro.pt

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Leiden Living Lab Pilot

The key objective of the Leiden Pilot is to improve the energyefciency at a public house hosting a variety of public services for thelocal communities. The Leiden City Hall building is owned by the cityof Leiden. The pilot provides information on energy use in a limitednumber of ofces in the building during a period of about a year whileproviding feedback to the participating employees. An indication isobtained about the cost effectiveness of the method and the energy

savings that can be obtained, aiming at demonstrating the use of

ICT for energy savings in public buildings and spaces through user

behavioural changes.

Savings can be attained on the use of electricity (lighting, computers,and appliances), heating and cooling. During the experiment a test isconducted for the hypothesis that energy consumption behaviours of employees can be changed by providing them with current informationabout the energy used at their desk and in their room. Indications arealso obtained about the amount of energy that can be saved using

this approach.

The Leiden pilot is carried out in ve ofce rooms of the Leiden CityHall building. These rooms vary in size, location, equipment, numberof desks, persons and the type of activity. For every pilot room there isone reference room that is very similar. Employees participating in theve pilot rooms get “real time” information about their energy usage.

The reference rooms are used to provide comparative reference data

and its employees do not get any information about their energyusage. This allows testing the hypothesis that providing informationcan change personal energy consumption behaviours.The light in the rooms can be controlled by two or four switches bothfor two sets of uorescent tubes at the same time. Rooms havevenetian blinds that can be opened and closed manually. The roomshave two windows that can be opened or closed by the employeesand two hot water radiators adjustable by them, one radiator has a

thermostatic control valve, and the other has a manual valve.

Both electricity usage and heating required for each room aremeasured; personal electricity usage per desk, e.g. by computers,screens and desk lamps, electricity usage per appliance in a room,e.g. by lighting and other room-specic devices like coffee machinesand printers, heating energy supplied to the room by each hot water

radiator is estimated from the radiator surface temperature and roomtemperature.

Employees can inuence the energy consumption by; switching lightsor equipment on/off, opening or closing the manual radiator control

valve, changing the set point of the thermostatic valve, opening or

closing windows, opening or closing doors, and by adjusting thevenetian blinds. During the experiment and in consultation with theemployees decisions are made to place extra sensors to evaluate if extra information might help the user to save more energy.

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