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| EU set to meet energy targets thanks to increased energy efficiency |
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To aid in its fight against climate change, the EU has awarded EUR 2.3 million to the POBICOS ('Platform for opportunistic behaviour in incompletely specified, heterogeneous object communities') project, which aims to get energy-saving applications into people's homes. The three-year project is led by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and involves partners from all across Europe. Together, this group will develop a platform which will make it possible to simply add energy-saving applications to homes. Scientists working on the project envision that this could be as simple as putting a sticker on a door. The aspirations of the POBICOS project are made all the more possible thanks to recent advances in low-power electronics, miniaturisation and wireless communications. These developments have finally made it possible to embed sensing, actuating and computing functionality into everyday objects. Yet, although these functions exist in some devices, their full potential has yet to be tapped. This is because it is difficult to programme such object collections in a straightforward way |