HEELP

The goal of this research project is to develop a solution based on smart home devices and technologies that, on the one hand, raises room users’ awareness of health and energy conservation and, on the other hand, can be easily integrated into residents’ daily lives to support them with recommendations for action or automated control actions.
The adoption of smart home technologies is steadily increasing, and various solutions already make it possible to measure parameters important for indoor climate, such as temperature, humidity, or CO₂ concentration in the indoor air. In many cases, this measurement data is used solely for display purposes or is only taken into account in very limited control loops—for example, for a single thermostatic valve. In addition to simply monitoring threshold values, measurement data could also be used to predict indoor conditions, from which recommendations for action can then be derived for the user.

The HEELP system to be developed is intended to provide a solution for consolidating various types of information and data from smart home systems and processing them in analysis and processing modules—ranging from indoor climate analysis and forecasting to recommendations for action. When a user actively interacts with HEELP, their user behavior and the indoor climate can be evaluated in detail with regard to health, comfort, and energy savings, and feedback can be provided. With the help of data-driven analysis models, potential for optimization can be identified. In addition to the ability to integrate various smart home systems as data sources, HEELP offers the option to modularly integrate analysis and decision-making components under development and to supplement them with interactive and easy-to-understand usage reports for residents.

April 2024 – May 2027

Hahn-Schickard Society for Applied Research e.V.
Association of Sponsors of Research in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Technology Stuttgart e.V.

This pre-competitive project was funded by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz with IGF under grant number 01IF23208N.