The European Appliance Information System (EAIS) - a Step in Transforming the Market for Energy Efficient Household Appliances and Improving Climate Protection

摘要

The paper presents the EAIS system, part-funded by the EU SAVE Programme 99-043, implemented with the goal of enabling European citizens to access, via the Internet, energy and performance information for 9 household appliance groups sold in 12 European countries. This empowers EU citizens so that they are able to reduce the environmental impact of their energy use - a central theme of the European climate change program launched in Bruxelles on July 2nd/3rd, 2001. All the application software and national databases are co-located on a single server, so facilitating updating, maintaining and translating text into all the participating languages.