Presentation at the workshop "Benchmarking Energy Sustainability in Cities" organised by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Torino, 25/11/2014): http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/workshop/benchmarking-energy-sustainability-cities

1. Piergiorgio
Cipriano
Standard geodata models for
Energy Performance of Buildings:
experiences from Sunshine and
GeoSmartCity projects
Benchmarking Energy Sustainability in Cities
Torino, 25 Nov. 2014

2. If You Can't
Measure It,
You Can't
Improve It
(William Thomson, Lord Kelvin)

3. From Z to A
maps are easier to read than numbers and text

5. Intro

6. Sinergis is one of the major Geo-ICT
companies in Italy …
6 locations
+70 staff
+350 customers
10mln€

8. Two projects

9. www.sunshineproject.eu
smart urban services based on open
standards to support energy efficiency of
buildings
Pilot cities:
Ferrara, Trento, Cles (IT), Paola (MT),
Zagreb (HR), Lamia (GR)
Partners:
Fondazione Graphitech (coor), GiStandards, Sinergis, Cadzow Communication Cons., Grafica Light, Informatica Trentina,
Epsilon International, Fundacion Esade, Trentino Network, HEP ESCO, Meteogrid, Urbasofia, Urbanisticni Institute, GeoSYS, SET

10. www.geosmartcity.eu
open data hub for data distribution on
“energy”, based on INSPIRE Directive
Pilots cities:
Reggio Emilia, (IT) Girona (ES), Oeiras (PT),
Maroussi (GR), Turku (FI)
Partners:
GISIG (coor), Sinergis, Intergraph, Asplan Viak Internet, Epsilon Italia, Tracasa, Comune di Genova, Ticass, TUAS, VMM, Geobid,
Universitat de Girona, Comune di Reggio Emilia, Municipia

11. One goal is to improve this kind of maps:
http://energielabelatlas.nl/#zuid-holland/delft/17/52.0122/4.3612

12. Sunshine WP3
• Standardization, interoperability and
methodologies for energy savings
• Liaison with SDOs
 CEN TC287 (Geographic Information) – ok
 CEN TC371 (EPBD) – to be finalized
 OGC and INSPIRE – members of WGs
• CityGML ADE for Energy
 Work undertaken together with SIG3D
 http://en.wiki.energy.sig3d.org/index.php
/Main_Page

14. Sunshine WP4
• Buildings Efficiency Certification estimation
• Set of software modules to:
1. Import buildings geodata into database
2. View/editing buildings data
3. Check completeness on the field (app)
4. Calculate “energy maps”
• Modules 1, 2 and 3 already deployed
• #3 needs pilots to organize “on-the-field”
campaign for quality checks
• #4 already developed and now in testing

15. Buildings’ data of
Ferrara have been
collected, but some
attributes are still
missing or need to be
checked (e.g. “uses of
building”).
An on-the-field
campaign is organized,
involving few people
from the local Faculty
of Architecture, for
twenty days.
The staff uses
smartphones and
tablets to edit
attributes via WFS-T
service, and updates
data on PostGIS
database.

16. Some missing data,
still to be checked
Some missing data,
but already
checked
All attributes are
valued

17. Building selection
(on 1st click)

18. Building properties
(on 2nd click)
Editing of multi-value
attribute

20. Multi-value attribute
updated

21. Gas / electricity consumption of
residential buildings
Municipal buildings energy certificates
GSE photovoltaic panels installed
Energy consumption data from smart
meters (municipal buildings)

22. Energy certificates of municipal buildings
(Reggio Emilia)

24. Need for fuel

25. We need data …

28. UValues and other properties (e.g. age of 3D from high res. Lidar
construction) from Energy Certificates registers
Footprint from cadastre
or high quality topo db
Energy consumption
from SIATEL

29. Energy certificates open data
https://www.dati.lombardia.it/Energia/CENED-Certificazione-ENergetica-degli-EDifici/rsg3-xhvk

30. Energy consumption SIATEL
http://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/wps/content/nsilib/nsi/home/servizi+online/servizi+per+enti/siate
l+puntofisco/accesso+siatel+v20+puntofisco

31. Energy consumption SIATEL
Location
Energy

32. Energy consumption geocoded

34. Need for harmonised data

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36. (Geo) data models

37. “Stakeholders consistently reported that
they spend more time on data
formatting and cleaning than they do
on conducting analysis.
The lack of standard data formats, terms
and definitions is a significant ongoing
barrier to realizing the full utility of
empirical information about building
energy performance.”
source: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/12/f5/bedes_scoping_080113.pdf

38. BEDES
Building Energy Data Exchange Specification

39. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/11/f19/BEDES_Webinar_11-13_0.pdf

40. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/11/f19/BEDES_Webinar_11-13_0.pdf

41. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/11/f19/BEDES_Webinar_11-13_0.pdf

42. source: https://bpd.lbl.gov/

43. CityGML
City Geography Markup Language

44. CityGML

45. CityGML Building
source: http://www.rev-mac.com/docs/CityGML.pdf

46. CityGML Building
source: http://www.rev-mac.com/docs/CityGML.pdf

47. CityGML Building
source: http://www.rev-mac.com/docs/CityGML.pdf

48. CityGML Building Energy ADE
http://en.wiki.energy.sig3d.org/index.php/Main_Page

49. http://en.wiki.modeling.sig3d.org/index.php/2014_S_HfT_EnergyADE

50. CityGML Building Energy ADE

51. INSPIRE

52. Have you ever heard about the INSPIRE Directive
and Implementing Rules ?
~30%

53. Do you know that INSPIRE Technical Guidelines
for “Buildings” already include some (optional)
Energy properties?
<10%

54. http://en.wiki.energy.sig3d.org/images/upload/20141030_INSPIRE_EngergyWorkshop_EIFER2014_Groeger.pdf

55. http://en.wiki.energy.sig3d.org/images/upload/20141030_INSPIRE_EngergyWorkshop_EIFER2014_Groeger.pdf

56. http://en.wiki.energy.sig3d.org/images/upload/20141030_INSPIRE_EngergyWorkshop_EIFER2014_Groeger.pdf

58. INSPIRE and “Energy”
INSPIRE is a European Directive (2007/2/CE) defining principles
and Implementing Rules for the sharing of interoperable data
and services among public organisations in EU

59. http://tinyurl.com/krh329m

60. INSPIRE and “Energy” in buildings

61. INSPIRE and “Energy” in buildings

62. Green Button

63. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/06/f16/bpd_recommended_data_fields.pdf

64. Today, more than 60
million US households and
businesses can use Green
Button to access their own
energy usage data from
their electric utility, and a
growing set of companies
are offering products,
services, and apps that use
Green Button data.

65. Green Button is an industry-led standard to answer
to a White House request: provide customers with
easy access to their energy usage data in a
consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.
http://greenbuttondata.org/

66. Example of GreenButton data
http://greenbuttondata.org/

67. Conclusions

68. • There are a lot of available standards,
models, tools, methodologies, but …
… we need real data about real buildings,
at large scale
• Geodata represent the best example of
interoperability at data and ICT levels
• Models for data interoperability:
 BEDES
 CityGML
 INSPIRE
 Green Button

69. www.sunshineproject.eu
• Focus on interoperability to facilitate the
integration of datasets from different
sources (e.g. cadastral, energy
consumption data, energy certificates, …)
to estimate energy performance at large
scale
• In 2015 we will have a CityGML extension
for Energy with buildings properties for:
• Physics and materials
• Energy Systems (HVAC)
• Occupants

70. • At the same time, we are going to
implement an open data hub where to
host geodata about buildings:
 Municipal
 Residential
 Tertiary
… and to provide tools to facilitate CoM
signatories to collect, process and publish
actual data related for the Monitoring of
Emission Inventory
www.geosmartcity.eu

71. Of course, we are conscious that
problems related to energy are not just a
matter of “interoperable data models” or
“open harmonised geodata” …
… not only in India !

72. http://www.powerless-film.com/

73. Thank for your attention
piergiorgio.cipriano@sinergis.it