WEARergy – Energy at Your Wrist

Challenge

• Citizens remain passive in the energy transition: data is hidden, complex, and distant.

• Energy communities need intuitive, inclusive interfaces to engage everyone, not just energy experts.

• Current EU projects focus on platforms, portals, and smart meters – but the everyday link to people is missing.

Vision

Imagine energy becoming as present as steps on a smartwatch:

• Electricity flows visualized like heart rate.

• Price signals felt as vibrations.

• Community decisions accessed with a tap.

Wearables transform energy from an invisible background process into a tangible, everyday experience.

Research Questions

• How can complex grid signals be reduced to simple, human-centered cues?

• What behavioral change emerges when energy is always-on and embodied?

• Can wearables act as micro-nodes in resilient, decentralized infrastructures?

• How to ensure privacy, trust and security when body-linked devices handle energy data?

Innovation

• Pervasive Interfaces: Energy “on the body,” not hidden in apps.

• Multimodal Communication: Visual + haptic + contextual alerts.

• Contextual Automation: Linking personal routines to grid signals.

• Resilience Channel: Wearables as fallback in emergencies.

• Energy Autonomy: Exploring self-powered, harvesting wearables.

Expected Impact

• Society: Lower barriers to participation, more inclusive energy communities.

• Economy: New business models at the nexus of energy & consumer electronics.

• Science: Cross-disciplinary advance in HCI, energy informatics, digital participation.

• Environment: Empowered citizens enabling more flexible, renewable-driven grids.