Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SATO (Self Assessment Towards Optimization of Building Energy)
Berichtszeitraum: 2022-04-01 bis 2023-09-30
Part of EU buildings inefficiency is due to a deficit in knowledge about the overall real-life energy consumption and performance of buildings and their energy consuming equipment. The SATO project aims to implement a self-assessment and optimization platform for buildings and buildings energy consuming equipment. It will develop and demonstrate solutions that, independently of the building type, can provide Internet-of-Things (IoT) capabilities to new and legacy energy devices that are integrated into the SATO management platform for self-assessment and optimization. The project will also create a mobile application that combines building equipment control and information services into user-centered versions of the control and information services. SATO has four interconnected main objectives:
1 - Implement and test a cost-effective solution to assess the real-life energy performance of a building and its energy consuming equipment.
2 - Development of user-centered self-optimized energy management services.
3 - Develop 3D visualization (BIM-based) and WEB-based interfaces for the SATO platform.
4 - Implement a set of diverse building pilots to test and demonstrate the SATO platform, the self assessment framework, and the energy management services.
By achieving these objectives, the SATO project aims to contribute significantly for increased energy efficiency and decarbonization of the energy system as set in ambitious European Union targets for 2030, namely, reaching a 32%
share of renewable energy and increasing energy efficiency by at least 32.5%
1 - Implement and test a cost-effective solution to assess the real-life energy performance of a building and its energy consuming equipment.
2 - Development of user-centered self-optimized energy management services.
3 - Develop 3D visualization (BIM-based) and WEB-based interfaces for the SATO platform.
4 - Implement a set of diverse building pilots to test and demonstrate the SATO platform, the self assessment framework, and the energy management services.
By achieving these objectives, the SATO project aims to contribute significantly for increased energy efficiency and decarbonization of the energy system as set in ambitious European Union targets for 2030, namely, reaching a 32%
share of renewable energy and increasing energy efficiency by at least 32.5%
The project is now at month 36 out of 48 planned months of execution. The activities have started with the specification and definition of the requirements to implement the SATO concept. This concept is heavily grounded on the development of a platform capable of connecting buildings and building equipment to the relevant actors, trough innovative user-centered interfaces implementing the interaction with a set of energy self-assessment and optimization services. A significant contribution of the first period was the definition of the SATO platform architecture, the self-assessment and optimization frameworks, and the interfaces interaction design and workflows. Finally, these components were taken from conceptualization, to the specification of the tools and technologies that will support the development and integration of the platform components, and to the beginning of the implementation of the different platform layers: Internet-of-Things middleware, Self Assessment Framework, Optimization Services, and interaction with actors through interfaces. During the second reporting period the consortium has finished the implementation of the platform components that support the communication with buildings, the execution of the computational flows behind the self-assessment & optimization frameworks, and the interaction with users. Additionally, the self-asessment framework and the services framework have been consolidated, developed and initiated the final implementation and deployment in the platform and pilots. The SATO demonstration framework, composed of eight pilots, has been implemented by finishing all interventions and system installations. The web-based, BIM-based, and mobile applications, have been fully designed and are being updated with the visualizations for specific assessments as these become ready in the platform.
At this stage, the project tasks have produced a state of the art platform architecture focusing on interoperability, scalability, and portability, which are necessary ingredients for wide adoption in industry. Additionally the work has produced significant advances in the definition and implementation of energy assessment and optimization frameworks. These support the development of data and semantic models that fill a gap in current research and development in the scope of energy and buildings. Finally, the project has integrated the platform with BIM services towards the creation of innovative building energy assessment visualizations and interaction.