In my day job working as a TV producer I have noticed how much TV channels are now reliant upon partnerships to fund their programming. One such case is a new venture between Channel 4 and EON. EON has helped fund the Channel 4 series Home of the Future which launched this week. The series follows the Pereras, a regular family from Sheffield, who have their lives transformed by cutting-edge technology, giving them a taste of how we all might be living the future.
It?s a clever collaboration ? Channel 4 gets a subsidized TV series, allowing it to spend more money on other shows, EON gets great publicity and the audience gets a fascinating series.
In tandem with the series, E.ON has also launched a crowdsourcing project called E.ON Innovation to find the next generation of energy products and services.
Recognising that innovations and great ideas can come from anywhere. This competition is open to the UK public and will feature five challenges. The best submission from each challenge will win a home energy makeover worth up to ?2,000, and one of the five winners will be selected to receive the ?Shining Star? award, which increases the prize to a home energy makeover worth up to ?10,000.
The first innovation challenge is on the theme of rest and asks participants to come up with an answer to: how could the home ?learn? about your energy use in order to create a more restful environment? ?For example, your home could help you to relax using controls for lighting, temperature and air quality e.g. humidity, temperature, filtration, fragrancing and ventilation. You could customise energy use in the home to suit you and lower the bills too. The home could even have different energy zones.? ?
I reckon an iPhone app that monitors the energy consumption of my home and allows me control the heating remotely would be a great innovation. Don?t submit that one ? its mine- think of your own!
The top ideas will be transformed into reality and taken into production by E.ON, subject to research and development and a commercial assessment of the products/services.
If you want to follow the conversation about this project you can follow E.ON on Twitter (@talkingenergy) also look out for the hashtag #eoninnov, which isn?t the name of Tottenham?s new striker but an acronymn for EON innovation.
I watched the first episode tonight and I found it interesting and entertaining although it didn?t answer my burning question from a previous post ? whatever happened to the idea of flying cars ? whether I can expect to see one in the garage of the home of the future I don?t know, I suppose I will just have to keep watching.
If you want to know more about E.ON Innovation, here?s a video.
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