HotCity—A Gamified Token System for Reporting Waste Heat Sources
Wernbacher, Thomas; Pfeiffer, Alexander; Gebetsroither-Geringer, Ernst; Goels, Marko; Worster, Jakob; Meißner, Ernst; Graf, Angelika; Stollnberger, Romana; Geyer, Roman; Schmidt, Ralf-Roman; Serada, Alesha (2022-02-22)
Wernbacher, Thomas
Pfeiffer, Alexander
Gebetsroither-Geringer, Ernst
Goels, Marko
Worster, Jakob
Meißner, Ernst
Graf, Angelika
Stollnberger, Romana
Geyer, Roman
Schmidt, Ralf-Roman
Serada, Alesha
Editori(t)
Dingli, Alexiei
Pfeiffer, Alexander
Serada, Alesha
Bugeja, Mark
Bezzina, Stephen
Springer
22.02.2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023022027967
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023022027967
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©2022 Elsevier. This manuscript version is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY–NC–ND 4.0) license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Urban planning needs to discover and incorporate new energy sources to meet climate protection targets in the future. Waste heat from industrial and urban infrastructure has proven to be a viable solution, but its proper identification can be challenging, especially for smaller and unconventional sources. Our project relies on the principles of gamification enhanced by a blockchain based token system and crowdsourcing as methods to collect and utilise spatial data such as the location and the size of previously unused heat sources. The mobile platform-neutral HotCity App en ables users to collectively patrol the city in search of waste heat sources and to gain tokens that can be exchanged for rewards. The blockchain platform Ardor was used for cheat proofing and to enable transparency for the reward system. The field test conducted in winter 2020/2021 showed high usability scores as well as high acceptance ratings of our approach opening up new use case scenarios in the context of spatial energy planning.
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