Abstract
Measurement campaigns have shown major discrepancies in buildings energy performance between planned energy demand and real energy consumption, while nowadays most of the newly constructed offices buildings are equipped with BMS systems, integrating a more or less extended measurement layer providing large amounts of data. The HIT2GAP project has developed a new generation of building monitoring and control tools based on advanced data treatment techniques allowing new approaches to assess building energy performance data, getting a better understanding of building’s behaviour and hence a better performance. From a strong research layer on data, HIT2GAP solution builds on existing measurement and control tools that are embedded into a new software platform for performance optimization. The HIT2GAP solution is applied as a novel intelligent layer offering new capability of the existing BMS systems and offering the management stakeholders opportunities for services with a novel added value. Applying the solutions to groups of buildings also allows to test energy demand vs. local production management modules. This solution is being tested in various pilot sites across Europe. HIT2GAP work has been carried out with a permanent concern about market exploitation of the solutions developed within the project. This paper will present the project solution in detail and showcase the achievement so far in the real case demo sites.
Highlights
Differences between expected and actual energy consumptions in buildings arise from issues arising from the design, construction, commissioning and operation
The objective of the HIT2GAP project is (i) to reduce the energy performance gap between predicted and actual building performance, focusing on the operational phase of buildings; (ii) to propose a new paradigm for the development of energy management platforms in buildings, integrating existing expertise and resources; (iii) to provide a smart, open platform associated with added-value modules based on analytics of data collected in the building
The approach taken in HIT2GAP is to build an open, plug and play, application-based platform to support a new generation of Building Management Systems (BMS)
Summary
Differences between expected and actual energy consumptions in buildings arise from issues arising from the design, construction, commissioning and operation. This Energy Performance GAP, which often exceeds 50% of the overall energy consumption, has detrimental implications for the achievement of EU energy targets. The objective of the HIT2GAP project is (i) to reduce the energy performance gap between predicted and actual building performance, focusing on the operational phase of buildings; (ii) to propose a new paradigm for the development of energy management platforms in buildings, integrating existing expertise and resources; (iii) to provide a smart, open platform associated with added-value modules based on analytics of data collected in the building. Demonstration of the developed solution in four pilot sites and evaluation of the impact and savings achieved using this solution
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