UBITECH participates in the kick-off meeting, in Limassol, Cyprus of the PERSEPHONE Cypriot research project, officially started on May 21st, 2019. The project is co-funded by the “Research in Enterprises” action of the multi-annual development framework of Programmes RESTART 2016-2020 for the support of Research, Technological Development and Innovation in Cyprus (Grant Agreement No. ENTERPRISES/0916/0063) and spans on the period May 2019 – May 2021. The PERSEPHONE project aims to design and deploy an innovative IT ecosystem for motivating end-users’ behavioural changes towards the adoption of energy efficient lifestyles, building upon the evolvements in the Internet of Things, Data Modelling and Analysis and Recommendation and Gamification eras.
Internet of Things technologies are exploited for the proper and energy efficient interconnection of a heterogeneous set of sensor nodes (e.g. smart energy meters, sensors interacting with microgeneration infrastructure, sensors in smart phones), the collection of data based on Mobile Crowd Sensing Mechanisms exploiting the power of the collection of data from a critical mass of interested people and the application of proper communication networking schemes with regards to data collection. Advanced Data Modelling and Analysis techniques are applied for the modelling of the collected data –both from sensor networks as well as directly from end users- and the extraction of advanced knowledge by exploiting the power of Semantic Web techniques, Linked Data and Data Analytics. Focus is given on the development of personalised mobile applications and games targeted at providing energy related information to end users, triggering interaction with relevant users, increasing their awareness with regards to ways to achieve energy consumption savings in their daily activities and adopt energy efficient lifestyles based on a set of recommendations and motives targeted to their culture and comfort zone.
Within PERSEPHONE, UBITECH is going to be heavily involved in the architecture conceptualization activities, starting from the collection of technical and business requirements towards the design of the overall PERSEPHONE architectural approach. Furthermore, UBITECH is going to lead the design of the data aggregation and fusion mechanisms and contribute to the set of data analysis and personalised recommendation mechanisms. UBITECH is going to be the main partner responsible for realising the set of integration activities and delivering the integrated PERSEPHONE platform.
