The Flemish Living Lab Platform was launched in October 2010 to promote and support living lab research in Flanders. Currently the platform is supporting several Smart City, Smart Grid and/or Smart Media projects. By introducing to you some practical examples the priorities and the added value of the Flemish Living Lab platform will be explained. As ultimate goal : define some new projects to co-create our own future.

3. Smart Home: management of local electricity production, storage and consumption

4. Zero Energy Building management

5. Smart Grid: next generation electricity network for optimized and balanced production and consumption

6. Domotic house system with easy switching of devices

7. Dimming of light bulbs or fluorescent tubes

8. Consumption history and statistics consultation

9. Custom scheduling of each appliance

10. Demand response : intelligent scheduling to avoid peak electricity demand

13. Usage : Why ? When ? How ?

14. Technical Robustness ?

15. … Get user feedback !

16. Test infrastructure

17. A user interface

18. Test Users

19. Support

21. Test user community

22. Partner network

23. Supporting ServicesA successful smart home link basedon living lab user feedback

24. Thankyou!

25. Mark De Colvenaer Platform & Infrastructure Manager Flemish Living Lab Platform t. +32 15 33 23 29 m. +32 476 46 08 59 e. mark.de.colvenaer@staff.telenet.bew. www.flemishlivinglabplatform.be