ENTROPY Consortium

Title: Document Version:

D6.5. Y2 Dissemination, Communications, Activities Report 0.1

Project Number: Project Acronym: Project Title:

649849 ENTROPY Design of an Innovative Energy-Aware IT Ecosystem for Motivating

Behavioural Changes Towards the Adoption of Energy Efficient Lifestyles

Contractual Delivery Date: Actual Delivery Date: Deliverable Type* - Security**:

01/09/2017 15/09/2017 R – CO * Type: P – Prototype, R – Report, D – Demonstrator, O – Other

** Security Class: PU- Public, PP – Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission), RE – Restricted to a group defined by the consortium (including the Commission), CO – Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including

the Commission)

Responsible and

Editor/Author:

Cleopatra Bardaki

Organization:

AUEBELTR Contributing WP:

WP6

Authors (organizations):

Cleopatra Bardaki (AUEBELTR)

Abstract:

Documentation of all the dissemination and communication activities of the second project year.

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Keywords:

Publications, Website, Social media presence

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Executive Summary

This document presents the bouquet of communication and dissemination activities and events

the Entropy consortium has conducted and participated during the second year of project work.

The Entropy consortium recognizes the importance of these activities and their contribution in

advertising the project‟s efforts and innovative results towards building a solid ground for a

successful exploitation of the Entropy final innovative outcomes/ products.

Disclaimer

This project has received funding from the European Union‟s Horizon 2020 research and

innovation program under grant agreement No 649849, but this document only reflects the

consortium‟s view. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made

of the information it contains.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 5

2. Dissemination Activities .......................................................................................................... 6

2.1 Academic Publications ..................................................................................................... 6

2.2 More Dissemination Activities ....................................................................................... 10

3. Communication activities ...................................................................................................... 13

3.1 Entropy Web Site............................................................................................................ 13

3.2 Social Media Presence .................................................................................................... 15

3.3 Entropy Newsletter ......................................................................................................... 16

3.4 ENTROPY Videos ......................................................................................................... 18

4. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................ 19

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1. INTRODUCTION

Deliverable 6.5 presents the dissemination and communication activities the Entropy consortium

undertook during the second project year in order to communicate the scientific and

technological knowledge generated so far among ENTROPY partners to other potential end

users, customers and supporters of ENTROPY services.

Section 2 summarizes the main dissemination activities and section 3 presents the

communication activities. Section 4 concludes the document.

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2. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

2.1 Academic Publications

During the second year of Entropy project, the consortium diffused the gained scientific and

technical knowledge through the following publications in international academic journals and

conferences.

Academic Journal publications

Paper title Authors Journal Name Publication date

1 Online route prediction based on

clustering of meaningful velocity-

change areas

Fernando Terroso-Saenz, Mercedes Valdes-Vela

and Antonio F. Skarmeta-Gomez

Data Mining and

Knowledge Discovery

Vol. 30, Issue 6,

November 2016

2 Applicability of Big Data Techniques

to Smart Cities Deployments

Victoria Moreno-Cano, Fernando Terroso-Saenz,

Aurora Gonzalez-Vidal, Mercedes Valdes-Vela,

Miguel Ángel Zamora-Izquierdo, Antonio F.

Skarmeta, Victor Chang

IEEE Transactions on

Industrial Informatics

Vol. 13, Issue 2,

April 2017

3 Providing Personalized Energy

Management and Awareness Services

for Energy Efficiency in Smart

Buildings Sensors 2017, 17, 2054

Fotopoulou, E., Zafeiropoulos, A., Terroso-

Sáenz, F., Şimşek, U., González-Vidal, A.,

Tsiolis, G., Gouvas, P., Liapis, P., Fensel, A. and

Skarmeta, A.

Sensors

Vol. 17,

September 2017

4 An open IoT platform for the

management and analysis of energy

data

Fernando Terroso-Saenz, A. González-Vidal, A.

P. Ramallo-González and A. F. Skarmeta

Future Generation

Computer Systems

Available online

(Accepted on 23

August 2017)

5 Fuzzy Modelling for Human

Dynamics Based on Online Social

Networks

Jesus Cuenca-Jara (UMU), F. Terroso-Saenz, M.

Valdes-Vela and A. F. Skarmeta

Sensors Vol. 17, Issue 9

6 Applicability of big data techniques to

smart cities deployments

Moreno, M. V., Terroso-Sáenz, F., González-

Vidal, A., Valdés-Vela, M., Skarmeta, A. F.,

Zamora, M. A., and Chang, V.

IEEE Transactions on

Industrial Informatics

Vol. 13, Issue 2,

April 2017

Table 1 Academic Journal Publications

Academic Conference Proceedings

Paper title Authors Conference Name Conference place

& date

1 A Sensor Networking Architecture

for ENTROPY – Energy-Aware

Information and Communication

Technologies Infrastructure Enabling

Smart Building Solutions

Aristotelis Agianniotis, Vincent Schülé,

Antonio Jara, Mariam Barque and

Dominique Genoud

13th

International Conference

on Wireless and Mobile

Communications (ICWMC

2017)

Nice, France -

July 2017

2 Data aggregation, fusion and

recommendations for strengthening

citizens energy-aware behavioural

profiles

E. Fotopoulou, A. Zafeiropoulos, F. T.

Saenz, A. Gonzalez, A. F. Skarmeta, U.

Simsek and A. Fensel

2017 Global Internet of Things

Summit (GIoTS)

Geneva,

Switzerland -

June 2017

3 Human mobility analysis based on

social media and fuzzy clustering

Jesus Cuenca-Jara, F. Terroso-Saenz, M.

Valdes-Vela, A. Gonzalez-Vidal and A. F.

Skarmeta

4 Integration of serious games and IoT

data management platforms to

motivate behavioural change for

energy efficient lifestyles

Clara Garcia-Garcia, F. Terroso-Saenz, F.

Gonzalez-Burgos and A. F. Skarmeta

5 A semantic approach towards

implementing energy efficient

lifestyles through behavioural

change

Umutcan Simsek, A. Fensel, A.

Zafeiropoulos, E. Fotopoulou, P. Liapis, T.

Bouras, F. T. Saenz, and A. F. Skarmeta

Gomez

12th International Conference

on Semantic Systems

(SEMANTiCS 2016)

Leizpig-

Germany,

September, 2016

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6 A Motivational Model to influence

Energy Behaviour at the Workplace:

The role of Gamification,

Geolocation and Sensors

Dimosthenis Kotsopoulos, Cleopatra

Bardaki and Katerina Pramatari

4th International Workshop on

the Changing Nature of Work

(CNoW): The Impact of

Digital Innovation on Work

(pre-ICIS 2016 workshop)

Dublin, Ireland -

Decemberh, 2016

7 Effecting Employee Energy

Conservation Behaviour at the

workplace by utilising Gamification

D. Kotsopoulos, C. Bardaki, S. Lounis,

and K. Pramatari

European Conference on

Information Systems (ECIS

2017)

Dublin, Ireland -

June, 2017

8 Χπήζη ηεσνικών Gamification, ζε

ζςνδςαζμό με γεωσωπικέρ

πληποθοπίερ και δεδομένα από

αιζθηηήπερ, με ζηόσο ηην αύξηζη

ηηρ Παπακίνηζηρ Επγαζομένων για

ηην Εξοικονόμηζη Ενέπγειαρ ζε

Χώποςρ Επγαζίαρ (in greek)

D. Kotsopoulos, C. Bardaki, S. Lounis,

and K. Pramatari

14th

DMST Student

Conference of Athens

University of Economics and

Business

Athens, Greece -

May 2017

Table 2 Academic Conference Publications

2.2 More Dissemination Activities

Cleopatra Bardaki from ELTRUN-AUEB academic partner participated to the business

conference 'Internet of Things 2016', held in Athens, Greece, on September 19th

(http://iotconference.boussiasconferences.gr/default.asp?pid=1&la=2). Cleopatra‟s presentation

titled “IoT applications in Retail and Energy-efficient Workplace” introduced the audience to the

Entropy project‟s goals.

DunavNET partner presented both the ENTROPY project and its AR and VR solutions in the

United Kingdom‟s biggest multi-channel marketing, advertising and multi-media event, that is

Technology for Marketing (TFM) (www.technologyformarketing.co.uk). The event took place

on September, 28 - 29th

, in Olympia National, London. DunavNET had also a stand in this

exhibition. More than 7000 senior marketers from 5000+ companies and 50+ countries

participated in the event.

Figure 1: DunavNET’s ARVRNET group at TFM 2016 in the UK

ARVRtech (DunavNET‟s spinoff) presented its products and solutions, including AR Treasure

Hunt application developed through Entropy project, at AWE 2017

(http://www.augmentedworldexpo.com/) largest AR and VR event in the world in the USA. It

had 4700 attendees, 351 speakers, 212 exhibitors and an expo hall of 100,000 sqft. including our

20,000 sqft. Conference and expo showcased speakers, startups and organizations who are using

AR & VR to drive economic growth, encourage empathy and collaboration, democratize

healthcare and education, and promote sustainability in the world. More can be found in

ARVRtech blog (http://arvrtech.eu/blog/10-minutes-arvr-ceo-boris-pokric-reveals-company-

goals-after-augmented-world-expo).

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Figure 2: ARVRtech’s booth at AWE 2017 in the USA

Moreover, Fernando Terroso-Saenz from academic partner UMU (University of Murcia)

presented the ENTROPY project at the "Researcher's Night 2016" on October 2016 in Murcia,

Spain (see next picture).

In the same spirit, the Polo Navacchio Techno Park (user partner) hosted the Smart Home NOW!

Roadshow on October 6th

-9th

, 2016, as part of the Internet Festival 2016. The Hyperborea partner

presented the ENTROPY aims and progress to the roadshow‟s audience (see Figure 2). The

Smart Home NOW! Roadshow event aspires to suggest new solutions that support the consumer/

resident and enable „smart‟ houses through new services and business models.

Figure 3: Entropy project presented during „Researcher's Night 2016‟

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Figure 4: Entropy project presented during „Smart Home NOW! Roadshow 2017'

Further, the Entropy partner INTELEN Inc. booked an exhibitor‟s place in the event “European

Utility Week (EUW)” 2016 (http://www.european-utility-week.com/Exhibitor-List) on 15-17

Nov 2016, in Barcelona, Spain; and presented Entropy project. EUW is the annual landmark

event of the European Smart Energy calendar, bringing together all significant market forces and

stakeholders under one roof. With the expected attendance of 12,000+ smart energy

professionals, 600 + exhibitors, 600+ utilities and 300+ speakers, this is Europe's largest and

most comprehensive smart energy learning & meeting place. In 2016, EUW hosted and launched

„Energy Revolution Europe (ERE)' and „Intelligent Building Europe (IBE)'.

In addition, INTELEN Inc. exhibited/ presented its solutions, as well as Entropy project, during

the 8th Annual Smart Energy Europe & Future Utility Summit 2017

(www.smuksummit.com/meet-our-sponsors/). It is Europe‟s leading and most established Smart

Energy event, hosting over 500 industry professionals from Europe and around the world. The 2-

day event took place on February 2nd

-3rd

in London. The 2017 summit also featured regional

case studies, as well as highlighted Smart Energy projects from around the world.

INTELEN Inc. also participated and presented Entropy project to the „7th

Panorama of

Entrepreneurship‟ Conference (http://www.pan-orama.org) on March 17-19th

, 2017, in Athens,

Greece. It is the biggest Greek multi-conference promoting entrepreneurship to young people.

The event included 1000+ participants, 200+ speakers, 36 panel discussions and many

workshops.

Last, but not least, the project partners organized and managed the 1st project workshop

(Workshop on Energy Efficient Solutions based on IoT - EESIoT 2017,

http://globaliotsummit.org/workshop-on-energy-efficient-solutions-based-on-ioteesiot-2017)

during the Global IoT Summit accepting contributions from the ENTROPY partners and other

projects active in the area of innovative ICT technologies applications for designing and

developing energy efficient technologies in the buildings sector. The workshop was held on 8

June 2017 in Geneva (Switzerland). More details on it can be found in D6.9.

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3. COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES

During the Entropy project second year, the consortium maintains the following communication

tools to disseminate effectively the Entropy goals, work progress and results.

3.1 Entropy Web Site

The project web site is one of the most significant channels to communicate the project activities

and achievements. Thus, we have updated the original web site design including a sub-menu

titled „Semantic models‟ in the menu „Deliverables and Publications‟ in order to provide to the

site visitors more details in this aspect of the project results (see next figure).

Figure 5: Sub-menu „Semantic models‟ in Entropy web site

Concerning the traffic of the web site in the second year of project work, we had 3000+

connections and +60% new visitors. The following figure shows the respective Google Analytics

that we use to monitor the Entropy website traffic.

Figure 6: ENTROPY website – Google traffic analytics

3.2 Social Media Presence

At the beginning of ENTROPY project, we established our presence in the widely used social

media networks. Indeed, we have accounts in Facebook

(https://www.facebook.com/entropyproject), Twitter (https://twitter.com/EntropyEu) and

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8441478). During the second year of project, we

continued to utilize ENTROPY‟s social media presence to communicate all the project activities.

We usually post in our three social media channels our publications (see Fig. 4 below from our

Facebook presence), relevant Call for Papers, the project‟s videos we produce, the project‟s

progress and news, as well as initiatives relevant to the project goals (see Fig. 5 below from our

Twitter presence).

More specifically, our Facebook presence has until now 114 followers and 113 likes. Alike, we

have 43 and 56 tweets in Twitter; and our LinkedIn group has 35 members.

Now that we have built the Entropy platform and applications and the pilots are in-progress, we

intend to post more project actual results that are expected to increase Entropy audience

(viewers/ followers).

Figure 7: Posting an Entropy journal publication in Entropy FB page

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Figure 8: Twitting a “Green” initiative in Entropy Twitter account

3.3 Entropy Newsletter

Utilizing the Entropy newsletter template, we created one more newsletter (see next) that

introduces the audience to the Entropy platform and the personalized apps in progress.

Welcome to our quarterly newsletter Q1-2017

ENTROPY project will design and deploy an innovative IT ecosystem targeting the improvement of energy efficiency through users/ consumers understanding, engagement and, ultimately, behavioral change.

For the present newsletter, we are happy to share with you that we have completed the development and testing of the integrated Entropy platform; and that we have made significant progress in the development of the ENTROPY personalized apps and serious games.

The following pictures depict the ENTROPY platform architecture (fig 1) and indicative screens of the ENTROPY Dashboard (fig. 2), one out of the three serious games titled ‘Energy patrol’ (fig. 3) and the personalized app (fig. 4, 5).

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fig. 1

fig. 2

fig. 3

fig. 4

fig. 5

To keep y up to date on ENTROPY, stay tuned with our official project site.

Further, join us to the GIoT Workshop on Energy Efficient Solutions based on IoT – EESIoT 2017 (June 8

th, 11.15am), which ENTROPY has organized and where we will present the paper “Integration

of Serious Games and IoT Data Management Platforms to Motivate Behavioural Change for Energy Efficient Lifestyles”.

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649849

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3.4 ENTROPY Videos

For more effective communication of the Entropy project, we developed a 3min video titled

„Introduction to Entropy‟ (/www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=PC5fQuXsQI4),

which provides to the viewers a quick overview of the Entropy project and the solutions we

develop. We uploaded the video to YouTube on May 2017 and it has 175 views until now.

In addition, we created a 6min video titled „Entropy - Improve Energy Efficiency through

Behavioral Change‟ (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKJrcwUG88w), which walks the viewers

through the Entropy plartform. Again, we uploaded the video to YouTube on May 2017 and it

has 127 views until now.

Both videos are also posted in the project‟s web site and social media accounts.

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4. CONCLUSIONS

We have provided an overview of our efforts to disseminate and communicate Entropy progress

and results during the second year of project work.

Now that we have built the Entropy platform and the gamified solutions and we proceed with the

pilot trials, we expect to have much more interesting results that we intend to communicate

through various channels according to the dissemination and communication activities plan. We

believe that the fully functional Entropy platform and the field experiments at the pilot sites will

give us a great opportunity to increase the project‟s audience.