3e-HOUSES project deals with the integration of the most established ICT technologies in social housing in order to provide an innovative service for energy efficiency:

• Real time monitoring and management of the energy consumption.
• Integration of renewable energies.
• Creating the resources to lower energy consumption.

The Project allow to tenants develope or enhance their relationship with the utility, the enviroment, as the concept, saving energy is saving CO2 emissions. This would be achieved by piloting in several social housing buildings the interaction between smart devices and the users to create, in a first approach, awareness around their energy consumption and therefore a change in their energy-use patterns.

The described new services will allow the integration of renewable energy and other sources of distributed energies. As well it is expected to achieve a reduction around 20% in energy consumption in social buildings, by means of the real time monitoring, and management and control systems.

The 3-Houses consortium entails:

• Administration: PROMUSA, Bristol City Council.
• ICT and energy systems provider: INDRA, ENNOVATIS, IP-P.
• Service provider: Gas Natural Fenosa, ENNOVATIS.
• Non-Profit organisations: Bulgarian Housing Association and KWMC.

There are four demonstration pilots:

• Pilot 1: Spain. Three social houses in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain, divided into two constructions containing 64 and 56 flats respectively. The maximum number of houses is expected to be 80.
• Pilot 2: Germany. Social house in Leipzig (Germany) containing 33 flats.
• Replication 1: Bristol. 100 Social Housing Units in Bristol, made up of approximately 60 flats within a housing block and 40 houses dispersed through an area of social housing.
• Replication 2: Bulgaria. Social house promoted by BHA in Sofia (Bulgaria) containing 44 flats.