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12-13 June, 2023
#FIWARESummit
From Data
to Value
OPEN SOURCE
OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN COMMUNITY
Smart Buildings Analysis with
Digital Twins
Flavio BONO
Giovanni VAGLICA
Graziano RENALDI

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The EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy)
▪ The Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy) is
the third biggest European Commission site
after Brussels and Luxembourg.
▪ One of Europe's leading research campuses
with many laboratories and unique research
infrastructures.
▪ Scientific Activities:
• Sustainable Resources and Transport
• Space
• Security
• Migration
• Health and Consumer Protection
• Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
• Growth & Innovation
• Nuclear research:
• Nuclear safeguards
• Non-proliferation and Nuclear security
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BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Channels: >400
Type: vibrations, displacements,
environmental parameters, load, position
Acquisition Rates: up to 64Hz
VEHICLE
Channels: 35
Type: vibrations, inertial parameters, GNNS
Acquisition Rates: >1KHz
JRC Active IoT and
Wireless Sensors
Vertical Applications
Low Power Urban
Wireless Nodes
Environmental Monitoring
(noise, pollution)
Vehicles and
Infrastructures
Smart Buildings
Smart
Infrastructures
Smart Cities
Systems Integration
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Objectives
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CHALLENGES
 Management of Big Data flows from
heterogeneous sensors
 Multi-level Urban IT systems
 Data Analysis
 Real-time and Historical Data
OBJECTIVES
 Integration of Smart Buildings
and Infrastructures into Smart
Cities
 BIM integration
 Digital Twins
 Context Information
 Data Analysis and ML-based
predictive maintenance

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The EUROPA Science Experience test case
• Smart Buildings integration into Smart
Cities
• Energy performance monitoring
• >300 Sensors
• Big Data management for Machine
Learning
• 3D models from BIM for the Digital
Platform
• Development of Digital Twins
• EC JRC real-world test cases
• Collaboration with JRC Infrastructures
Real-time and historical sensor monitoring
More than 300 signals
Digital Twin and online dashboard
3D models integration in the Smart City platform

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A Digital Twin Solution for the new JRC Building

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The EUROPA Science Experience Digital Twin
First Floor + Cube
Environment
Second Floor
• Conference Room
• Offices
• Kitchenette
• Break Area
• Techical Room
• Exhibition Hall (cube)
• Reception
• Office
• Relax Area
• Audiovisuals Control Room
• Exhibiti Area
• Technical Rooms

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Digital Twin EUROPA Science Experience Building
First floor and Cube Environment

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A Digital Twin Solution for the new JRC Building
Incorporating Machine Learning
and Neural Networks into
FIWARE's Smart
City Architecture

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External Temperature
Internal Temperature
REAL Power
Consumption
Predicted Power
Consumption
ANOMALIES
DETECTION
March 2023 Temperature Data (°C)
Heating System Power Use (kWh)
Machine Learning for building management optimization

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Conclusions
▪ Smart Buildings will be stategic
component of Smart Cities
▪ Need for convergence of
data standards to simplify
the Smart Buildings integration
▪ ML and Digital Twins are
crucial technologies towards
buildings energy optimization
and management
JRC Bibliometric analysis of
keywords from scientific
publications citation network
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