Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

CAPEE - plateforme Capteur d'Activité et de Présence pour l'Efficacité Enérgétique

Participants : James Crowley [correspondant] , Lucas Nacsa, Amaury Nègre, Lukas Rummelhard.

In Cooperation with local PME Novazion, Inria has worked with and Schneider Electric to create a research plafform for activity recognition for Smart Energy Systems. This system integrates information from multiple environmental sensor to detect and track people in indoor environments. Copies of this system has been installed at Schneider Electric Homes research group in Grenoble and in the Smart Spaces lab at Inria Montbonnot.

An associated software, named MultiSensor activity tracker, integrates information from multiple environmental sensors to keep track of the location and activity of people in a smart environment. This model is designed to be used by a home energy broker that would work in conjunction with a smart grid to manage the energy consumption of home appliances, balancing the needs of inhabitants with opportunities for savings offered by electricity rates. This database will also be used for by advisor services that will offer advice to inhabitants on the consequences to energy consumption and energy cost that could potentially result from changes to lifestyle or home energy use.