Author: lucas
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TwinERGY – Data Use License
The project TwinERGY is a European funded research project and the Bristol pilot will install energy technology in 12 homes who already have solar panels – to help you manage your energy use in a smarter way. Below we refer to the Bristol pilot as ‘the project’. The purpose of this document This document is intended to provide information to participants in…
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Twinergy
Data Use License A smarter approach to your energy use – be part of the energy revolution! TwinERGY is a three-year EU funded research project. It is testing an Energy Demand Response Framework, a technology solution that supports households with sustainable energy generation (e.g. solar panels) to actively manage and adapt their energy use to…
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Urban Monitoring
We have worked on numerous projects with multiple partners around collecting environmental parameters within a home or shared space, such as noise, light, air quality, energy use and production, temperature, humidity, and more. The combined infrastructure required to tie all of these disparate parts together can be expensive or cumbersome to put together from scratch…
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To/Fro
As a result of the initial, unforeseen lockdowns of 2020, many local residents found themselves isolated and in need of assistance. The Knowle West Alliance responded by organising an impressive, people-powered support network, to meet the unexpected demand. This became increasingly difficult to manage as the number of people and requests grew. Through close collaboration with a…
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Open Data Platform
Working closely with Bristol City Council on their Slow The Smoke project, in the new year, KWMC will be facilitating workshops with different groups from around the city, to make sense of Citizen Generated Data. Part of this will include co-designing richer, more engaging visualisations to Bristol’s Open Data Platform, such as Solar Plots. These new features will be developed, hosted and served…
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KWMC.cloud
The OPCR (Open Programmable City Region) network, is a secure, local and private network within Bristol. Part of this includes an Open Stack environment, which enables the creation of Virtual Machines to run on the network, as well as internal networking tools and port/access controls. KWMC has a portion of the Open Stack environment and projects, as well as their…
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Fabman Plus
As part of OPCR, our maker and community-space, The Factory, was upgraded with a world-class IoT system, which allows members to book and control machines on their terms and much more. Fabman is at the centre of this and using their API, we have begun to create extended features beyond their core, off-the-shelf product. We created a simple…
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Info Screens
Making information more accessible and understandable runs through the core of KWMC and we’ve iterated around this idea since our inception. We’ve created modular dashboards to engagingly display live information, such as recent tweets, weather conditions and a building’s energy use. An early example can be seen at Whose Data? We’re updating these tools and methods, to create…