BeijIng Groningen Smart energy cities

The objective of the BIGS project is to increase awareness of energy and understand citizen behaviour across countries. This is the fundamental step to create policies for improving citizens’ behaviour and increasing electric infrastructure efficiency, which is the second key objective of BIGS. Finally, this can only be achieved with an appropriate supporting ICT infrastructure that will be built as an enabling element of the project. The information collected and fed back to the citizen is then used to derive user models and to steer public behaviour. The ICT infrastructure is also the means for implementing the policies in a personalised, real-time and culturally tailored way.

Journal paper accepted in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal​.

Journal paper accepted in the ACM Computing Surveys journal.

The second meeting was held in Groningen.

An extended abstract was accepted at ICT4S.

The BIGS project has officially started.

Start: 1 October 2015
Duration: 3 years
Funded by: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Program: Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) Smart Energy in Smart Cities
Contract number: 467-14-037