Assistive Awareness in Smart Grids

SmartGrids use Information and Communication technology to underpin the network’s infrastructure and performance, placing at the same time a particular emphasis on the demand-side, which requires both to better understand the behaviour of energy consumers and get energy consumers to understand better the e↵ects of their behaviour on the grid. We are investigating Serious Games as an innovative way to train consumers and increase their active participation in the new “smart” energy infrastructure, i.e. SmartGrids. We specifically focus on local micro-grids, in which energy consumers can also be producers, who self-organise their own provision and appropriation rules in the context of an institution. Enabling assistive awareness in such a local grid helps users to better understand the specific roles that are occupying inside SmartGrids and enhance the sense of collective responsibility and action among them. Computational awareness enables the visualisation of di↵erent forms of information, while assistance services help users in their decision process to achieve individual and com-