In this paper Etto Salomons presents his vision of the GoGreen project on a smart home that is capable of decreasing energy consumption while at the same time increasing user comfort. To identify the main challenges he introduces a general model for intelligent homes that describes the current state, the target state and the transition. A key point in the project’s vision is the concept of personas and entities to model groups of individuals and their preferences. A second key point is the strategy of coaching the users towards the global system goals by adapting the environment.
Etto Salomons works at the Ambient Intelligence chair of the Saxion Research Centre for Design and Technology. He is conducting his doctoral research at the GoGreen project at the University of Twente, under the supervision of professor Paul Havinga.