leveraging the energy transition by gamified learning and AI, guided by cross sectoral integrated services and digital twin models to foster accessible and human-centered energy saving experiences

Project Information

ENERGENIUS

Grant agreement ID: 101160720

DOI

10.3030/101160720

EC signature date 27 May 2024

Start date 1 September 2024

End date 29 February 2028

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 5 214 701,83

EU contribution

€ 3 999 783,88

Coordinated by

MY ENERGIA ONER SL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ENERGENIUS (leveraging the energy transition by gamified learning and AI, guided by cross sectoral integrated services and digital twin models to foster accessible and human-centered energy saving experiences)

Reporting period: 2024-09-01 to 2025-10-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The ENERGENIUS project provides an innovative pathway dedicated to cultivating an inclusive, community-driven energy transition, underpinned by the ethos of 'Leave No One Behind.' At its heart is the ENERGENIUS Suite, a comprehensive, one-stop-shop digital platform providing a wide range of interlinked services, including digital twin models, serious games, cross-sectoral dashboards, marketplace and AI-driven recommendations. This robust ecosystem amalgamates data across various sectors—from energy, healthcare, and finance to traffic, social media, real estate, and tourism—delivering customized, AI-powered solutions for energy efficiency. By harnessing the collective intelligence of its community, ENERGENIUS not only offers personalized energy-saving advice but also reciprocally enriches multiple sectors. Upholding the highest standards in interoperability and privacy-by-design, ENERGENIUS is establishing new milestones for secure, seamless cross-sectoral data exchange.
The mission of ENERGENIUS is to establish a holistic ecosystem, integrating cutting-edge and comprehensive digital tools & services that inspire and equip citizens towards the energy transition. ENERGENIUS is fostering a culture of sustainability, inclusiveness, and energy-efficient living, by translating insights from diverse cross-sectoral domains into enriched user experiences.
ENERGENIUS is built on 4 Pivotal Pillars: a) cutting-edge technologies that enable the digitalization of the energy sectors such as IoT, AI, Edge Computing, Big Data, and Digital Twins to develop personalized energy solutions and enhance the effectiveness of energy efficiency initiatives; b) crafting a symbiotic ecosystem with unique energy efficiency solutions, further enriched by cross-sectoral services spanning various fields, to enhance the benefits of multi-sector integration and extract behavioural patterns that will maximize impact; c) pioneering highly sophisticated engagement methods that provide value and direct benefit to the user and foster a continuous-learning culture; d) designing a framework for a secure, interoperable, scalable and replicable ecosystem, ensuring that businesses, consumers, and stakeholders across sectors experience a streamlined, collaborative environment for energy efficiency.
ENERGENIUS is designed for merging energy insights with cross-sectoral services, integrating observations from the following 9 knowledge arenas:
1. Energy Data Dynamics
2. Environmental Conditions & Human Comfort Frameworks
3. Water Utilization Incentives
4. Health & Nutrition Fluxes
5. Urban Flow & Mobility Patterns
6. Financial Drivers
7. Real Estate Market Incentives
8. Tourism & Accommodation trends
9. Social Media insights

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress overview
During the first reporting period, RP1 (M1-M14), ENERGENIUS has achieved the following progress:
• Set the foundations for ensuring the success of the project; processes for monitoring and reporting the progress of the project and ensuring high quality outputs have been defined in the project management handbook and quality and risk management plan of the project
• Defined the data management and ethics plan laying the legal and security framework under which the project will run
• Identified the different stakeholders, creating profiles/personas assessing their needs and expectations. From those needs, 11 use cases have been elaborated and will be tested in the following reporting periods to validate the ENERGENIUS solution
• Held workshops to collect feedback regarding user expectation for ENERGENIUS solution and defined the methodological guidelines for future co-creation activities. Furthermore, the digital platform that will host the ENERGENIUS Community was identified and initially validated, defining the different sections that the user will find to increase their energy knowledge, access to cross-sectoral educational material, interact with other users and provide feedback to finetune the solution
• The platform is now technically validated and ready to be populated with content and integrated with the ENERGENIUS SUITE during the upcoming reporting period
• Mapped the interaction of user with the different components of the ENERGENIUS platform. This User Journey facilitates the user engagement and provides the tool developers with an overall view of the platform to design user-friendly and accessible solutions
• Designed the ENERGENIUS system architecture with a layer structure compliant with the SGAM methodology and the Data Exchange Reference Architecture (DERA 3.0). The main components of the system have been defined in terms of functional specifications and data (input/output) and interface requirements
• Identified the available data sources from all nine knowledge arenas to be integrated in ENERGENIUS following its cross-sectoral approach. Data come from contextual datasets at local, national or European level or at pilot level through data collected with smart devices
• Developed the foundations of the Nexus Framework to assure the comprehensive interoperability and security across the ENERGENIUS components, as well as the specifications of the ENERGENIUS Data Beacon (ENDB) for the multimodal data acquisition and governance, to ensure harmonised, traceable, and interoperable data exchange between all ENERGENIUS components
• Produced the first version of the Decision Support System to aid the users in their decision-making processes about the Energy Transition. Algorithms to cluster end-users in behavioural groups have been prepared and initially validated and will be integrated along the DSS in GURU.
• Significant progress has been made in the tools’ development, producing the first prototypes of S2DT and ENPLAY
• Helped identify the existing infrastructure and local constraints at the different pilot sites, providing the roadmap for pilot preparation
• Defined the project’s dissemination and communication plan and created a strong project identity; the project’s website and branded informative material were created and made publicly available
• Created synergies among other Horizon Europe project, participating in three BRIDGE working groups and being member of the E-NERGY Cluster with the sister projects of our common topic.

In this first 14 months of the project:
• 26 tasks were initiated, all five from WP2 have already been closed successfully, delivering all required outputs
• 12 deliverables were submitted during for RP1
• The five milestones planned for RP1 were achieved

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

At the current stage of RP1, there are no measurable impacts as presented in the DoA. These first 14 months the project has been focused on setting the blueprint of the ENERGENIUS solution and, even though progress has been made in the tools’ development, the solution is not complete nor mature to execute any validation activity

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