As part of the EU-LIFE project EPREL Services”, the Österreichische Energieagentur - Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) is – jointly with consortium partners (hereinafter the consortium part-ners together are referred to as EPREL Services project team”) – responsible for the design, development and implementation of a new web application (hereinafter referred to as the Web-Application”). EPREL stands for EU database for energy-labeled products” and serves as a central source of information on the energy efficiency and other characteristics of prod-ucts on the EU internal market. The aim of the project at hand is to create a modern web application tailored to the needs of the key target groups, that merges EPREL data with additional, practically relevant product in-formation such as price, operational costs, availability and other features. The applications are aimed at the following target groups: consumers, procurers, retailers and policymakers.
This requires the development of a software solution with standardized data structures, in-terfaces (APIs) and core functionalities. Building on this, tools for the respective target groups will be integrated. The Web-Application will process and harmonize data from various sources, in particular EPREL data and additional product information provided by the EPREL Services project team. An integrated feedback channel shall enable reporting of errors or dis-crepancies by users of the Web-application.
The Web-Application will integrate data from EPREL with additional product information re-trieved via web crawlers and structured data feeds from further partners. All product data not available in EPREL will be acquired and provided for further processing and integration in the web-app by the EPREL Services project team. For further details, please refer to the Requirement Specification (Annex II – App. 1) and the contract (Annex II).