BAEDA Lab joins the Annex 81 community
About Annex 81 - Data-Driven Smart Buildings
The recent revolution in digital technology and cyber-physical systems has the potential to reduce costs and overcome barriers to energy efficiency, through advanced control and operation of building HVAC systems. Emerging digital tools include
- The Internet of Things (IoT); providing access to more-diverse, low-cost data on the status and activity of equipment and people in buildings.
- Artificial intelligence and data analytics; enabling more comprehensive energy performance assessment, and predictive management of assets.
- Sharing economy platforms; providing new business models for connecting users and providers of energy efficiency software services.
Unfortunately progress in the digitalization of building services has been slow, and the application of digitalization for improving energy efficiency in buildings has not reached its full potential. Open data concepts have been proposed as a way of reducing barriers and stimulating innovation in energy efficiency software services.
The project is divided into 4 Subtasks and BAEDA Lab is currently active in the Subtask C.
Subtask C aims to develop building energy efficiency (and related) ‘applications’ that can be used (and ideally commercialized) for reducing energy consumption in buildings and coordinating building energy demand to achieve additional electricity system benefits.
Subtask Activities include
- C.1 Benchmarking Algorithms
- C.2 Automated Fault Detection, Diagnostics and Recommissioning Applications
- C.3 Building to Grid Applications
For more details please visit the official web site of Annex 81