HotCity—A Gamified Token System for Reporting Waste Heat Sources

Thomas Wernbacher; Alexander Pfeiffer; Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer; Marko Goels; Jakob Worster; Ernst Meißner; Angelika Graf; Romana Stollnberger; Roman Geyer; Ralf Roman Schmidt; Alesha Serada

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93780-5_2

HotCity—A Gamified Token System for Reporting Waste Heat Sources

Thomas Wernbacher^*
, Alexander Pfeiffer
, Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer
, Marko Goels
, Jakob Worster
, Ernst Meißner
, Angelika Graf
, Romana Stollnberger
, Roman Geyer
, Ralf Roman Schmidt
, Alesha Serada

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Disruptive Technologies in Media, Arts and Design - A Collection of Innovative Research Case-Studies that Explore the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain within the Media, Arts and Design Sector
Editors	Alexiei Dingli, Alexander Pfeiffer, Alesha Serada, Mark Bugeja, Stephen Bezzina
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	15-27
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783030937799
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93780-5_2
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	Media, Arts, and Design Artificial Intelligence conference, MADAI 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 19 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	382
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	Media, Arts, and Design Artificial Intelligence conference, MADAI 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	19/06/20 → 19/06/20

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Free Keywords

Blockchain
Blockchain game
Crowdsourcing
Energy saving
Gamification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications

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Wernbacher, T., Pfeiffer, A., Gebetsroither-Geringer, E., Goels, M., Worster, J., Meißner, E., Graf, A., Stollnberger, R., Geyer, R., Schmidt, R. R., & Serada, A. (2022). HotCity—A Gamified Token System for Reporting Waste Heat Sources. In A. Dingli, A. Pfeiffer, A. Serada, M. Bugeja, & S. Bezzina (Eds.), Disruptive Technologies in Media, Arts and Design - A Collection of Innovative Research Case-Studies that Explore the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain within the Media, Arts and Design Sector (pp. 15-27). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 382). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93780-5_2

Wernbacher, Thomas ; Pfeiffer, Alexander ; Gebetsroither-Geringer, Ernst et al. / HotCity—A Gamified Token System for Reporting Waste Heat Sources. Disruptive Technologies in Media, Arts and Design - A Collection of Innovative Research Case-Studies that Explore the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain within the Media, Arts and Design Sector. editor / Alexiei Dingli ; Alexander Pfeiffer ; Alesha Serada ; Mark Bugeja ; Stephen Bezzina. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 15-27 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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HotCity—A Gamified Token System for Reporting Waste Heat Sources. / Wernbacher, Thomas; Pfeiffer, Alexander; Gebetsroither-Geringer, Ernst et al.
Disruptive Technologies in Media, Arts and Design - A Collection of Innovative Research Case-Studies that Explore the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain within the Media, Arts and Design Sector. ed. / Alexiei Dingli; Alexander Pfeiffer; Alesha Serada; Mark Bugeja; Stephen Bezzina. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 15-27 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 382).

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