The future of building automation - IoT platform retrofit for advanced analytics, controls and further applications

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The future of building automation
IoT platform retrofit for advanced analytics, controls & further applications
E-World 2019 | 02.06.2019 | Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fütterer

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Situation
Conservative and project-
oriented industry
• Buildings account for
main energy consumption
in western countries
• Increasing share of
buildings equipped with
modern building
automation technology
• Proprietary technologies
& business models
Building automation
is operated deficiently.
40 %
Savings potential

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Practical challenges
Availability of
building automation
data
Interpretation &
usage of building
automation data

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Releasing the untapped potential of technical building equipment:
Platform for
Advanced Building
Automation Applications

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Products
A framework for highly diverse use cases – plug-and-play, vendor neutral & modular.
aedifion.io
IoT platform
Base technology
aedifion.custom
Individual adaption for any
energy system use case:
API & service customization
aedifion.controls
Cloud-based control
functionalities for every
datapoint in a BAS
aedifion.analytics
AI-supported algorithms for
optimization & diagnostics

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Customers
Those who interact with technical building equipment and strive to do it more efficiently.
Building engineers
OEMs
Facility managers
Research & developm.

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Solution
Illuminating the black box of technical building equipment with a dedicated IoT platform.
Integration of third-party
data & applications
3rd party data
3rd party apps
3rd party algorithms
Black Box of
Technical Building Equipment
aedifionAPI
aedifionedgedevice
aedifion platform
& modular toolset
Filing Processing
Controls Analysis

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Feature: plug-and-play platform retrofit
• aedifion pre-configures before shipping
• DHCP or steady IP
• Shipping of the aedifion edge device
• Technical stuff place the device into local plant‘s cabinet
• Connection to some network with internet connectivity
• Using Ethernet port one
• Connection to local plants network
• Using Ethernet port two
• aedifion edge devices automatically connects to platform
• aedifion configures the system via reverse SSH
• Fully plug-and-plug for customer and highly scalable
• Offering highest ICT security

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Application: technical monitoring
• High-frequency data acquisition
• Lowest sample rates in „real-time“
• High-performance data access
• Time series data bases
• Data visualization
• Graphs, heatmaps, etc.
• Operation transparency
• Saved views, virtual datapoints, live-views
• Organization
• Tagging, renaming, favorites
• Alarming framework
• For any other program

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Feature: AI-based time series classification
• Automated analysis of time series
• Using convolutional neural networks
• Generation of further time series information
• Generating time series tags
• E.g. supply flow temperature
• Application
• Normalization of meta data
• Fault detection
• Easier mapping of time series towards
objects

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Feature: advanced analytics & diagnostics
Scalable, object-oriented data processing
Semantical objects lib
Object: Heat pump
Design data Port
Object: Thermal
storage
Design data
Port
Basic analytics lib
Data Sanity
Control loop evaluation
Energetic evaluation
Exergetic evaluation
And many more…
Specific analytics lib
Heat pump
Storage
Consumer
Condensing Boiler
And many more…
Analysis
results

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Application: advanced analytics & diagnostics
1) Map components 2) Get insights
3) Receive recommendations

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Feature: multi-plant remote, cloud and edge controls
According to customers requirements
Remote control
Cloud
control
Edge control

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Application: MS Exchange-based controls
• Plug-and-play connection of your system
• aedifion.io & .controls
• Connection of Microsoft Exchange & aedifion
• Giving writing permissions to relevant
setpoints
• Creating trigger event
• If the room is booked, it gets tempered
• Else, the HVAC for that room is on
standby

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Application: 3D-controls
• Plug-and-play connection of your system
• aedifion.io
• 3D-Scan of your facility
• By our partner Scasa (www.scasa.eu)
• Mapping & augmentation of data points
• Self serviced or as-a-Service
• Implementation of controls-features
• Switching, setpoints, and schedules
• Enjoy!

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Picked references
"With aedifion.io we are able to record data from any faculty, from
individual meters to the entire process control system, safely and
transparently, and store it [...] reliably for a long time to come“.
Franz Völkl, Managing Director, werkkraft GmbH
"We use aedifion.io as a data platform in our research building
ENERGETIKUM. The comprehensive support, the high reliability of
the system as well as the new dimension of data availability and
integration are convincing.”
Prof. Christian Heschl, FH Burgenland
"Thanks to aedifion.io and .controls, we were able to test our
building solution very quickly and now have the opportunity of
easy scaling.”
Dr. Markus Grote, E.ON SE

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Company
Interdisciplinary, strong multi-
domain research background
RWTH Aachen Spin-Off
• EXIST transfer of research
Headcount: 16 (01/2019)
• 7 FTE / 5 students / 4
thesises
Several awards
Dr.-Ing.
Johannes
Fütterer
CEO
Engineer
Felix
Dorner
CFO
Business
Economist
Erik
Brümmendorf
Head of Eng.
Engineer
Dr. rer. nat.
Jan Henrik
Ziegeldorf
Head of IT
Computer
Scientist
Founders team

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Contact
aedifion GmbH
Kupferstr. 14
52070 Aachen
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fütterer
CEO
JFuetterer@aedifion.com
+49 241 80 49775
Thank you!