beyond energy efficient smart buildings
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On November 27, 2012, FTW hosted the event "Research Highlights Energy". In addition to statements of Andrea Edelmann, EVN, and Catrin Haider, BMVIT, FTW researchers presented research results out of a total of 6 research projects in the Energy field. Gallery: http://www.ftw.at/news/ftw-event-research-highlights-energyTRANSCRIPT
How does the next generation of energy
efficient buildings look like?
SESAME and SESAME-S Projects
2 FFG COIN Projects (sesame-s.ftw.at)SESAME – Semantic Smart Metering, Enablers for Energy Efficiency (9’09-11’10)
- Prototype, proof of concepts, feasibility study
SESAME-S – Services for Energy Efficiency (4’11-9’12)
- setting up usable smart home hardware, a portal and repository
- organizing a test installation in real buildings: in a school (Kirchdorf, Austria) and a factory (Chernogolovka, Russia)
- developing specialized UIs and designing mobile apps for the school use case
Consortium partner network of 6 organizations
Motivation: work with real buildings, real data and real users
Technology:
Several Smart Meters
Sensors (e.g. light, temperature, humidity)
Smart plugs, for individual sockets
Multi-utility management (i.e. electricity, heating)
Shutdown services for PCs
User interfaces and apps: Web, tablet, smartphone (Android)
Installations in Real Life Smart Buildings
Data-Driven Management in the Intelligent Building
Millions of real life data triples collected in the semantic repository
Private User StoragePublic Data CloudData Acquisition
MApp
Portal
Energy Monitoring and Control System
Energy Efficiency Services
Agencies Consumer
Weather Forecast
Energy Market Data
Appliances Info
Statistical Weather Data
Renewables Info
Grid Service Information
Open Linked Data
Energy Companies
Services Addressing Users @ School
Energy awareness, monitoring
Remote control - manual and programmed - e.g. scheduled activities and triggering rules
How do we get the users?
By having workshops with pupils: introduction to energy efficiency, building analysis, explaining the system and services
What are the stakeholders‘ needs?- Workshops at school with teachers, pupils,
janitors, management
How about energy awareness?- 47% of the pupils did not know who is
responsible for the energy management in their school.
- 69% would use an app to save energy on a regular basis
How to design energy awareness systems?
- Energy feedback and active shutdown of computers (power management)
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Empowering pupils to save energyUser Requirements
Questionnaire
Personas
Participatory Design
Empowering Pupils to Save EnergyDesign and Prototyping
Design sketches Design comparisons
Final mobile and tablet designs
Empowering Pupils to Save EnergyAcceptance and Effects
Using the power management app helped to save energy
No strong effect of devices used (tablet vs. smartphone)
Novel ways of energy saving are possible, but significant testing and development is necessary
NB: Rule based automation solution at the factory reported a similar level of energy savings
Communicating energy efficiency – application example (see www.alphaverda.com)
Users subscribe for the MobileApp with some of their information Address of their house / GEO position Type of the household Energy provider Energy tariff Energy consumption Devices they have
Benefits Hall of fame – a green point in the Green City Map Energy data in a GIS map in the Portal
Environmental data (CO2, weather ) Consumption and energy profiles
Residential data Public buildings (schools, hospitals, government… )
Getting insights based on aggregated data Which percentage of users from my geographic area use more energy than I use? Also a good service for city municipalities, governments
Receiving recommendations about tariffs / appliances Sharing energy efficiency practices (e.g. as policies)
Vision: Homes2District – Talking Buildings
Image credit: http://dryicons.com
Knowledge-based, distributed, service-oriented system solution to intelligently manage electric and thermal energy consumption and increase the usage and demand-oriented production of green energy on district level.
Smart Home Energy Datamarketplaces
Idea: A platform for publishing and querying energy data and establishing energy management services exchange between energy market stakeholders active in the smart building segment.
- Evaluation in terms of benefits for the marketplace ecosystem participants and enabling and simplifying creation of (new) data-intensive apps e.g. OpenFridge – monitoring app for consumption
Technology: semantic modeling, data analysis, scalable and economically viable datamarketplace infrastructures, new business models
Benefit: Energy companies, grid operators have means to assess the Smart Grid on a more granular level, and provide more M2M data services. Hardware manufacturers have the benefit in making their smart homes more intelligent. Third party developers benefit from the possibility to design Internet of Things apps, based on the open data. End users benefit from the new apps.
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Conclusions
Real world as a research lab
Energy efficiency in buildings achieved- Via intelligent automation- Via effective human involvement
In the future, buildings, objects, agents will be interconnected via data (and will be even more intelligent)
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