On November 27, 2012, FTW hosted the event "Research Highlights Energy". In addition to statements of Andrea Edelmann, EVN, and Catrin Haider, BMVIT, FTW researchers presented research results out of a total of 6 research projects in the Energy field. Gallery: http://www.ftw.at/news/ftw-event-research-highlights-energy

1. Anna Fensel
fensel@ftw.at
BEYOND ENERGY EFFICIENT SMART
BUILDINGS

2. How does the next
generation of energy
efficient buildings look like?

3. SESAME and SESAME-S Projects
2 FFG COIN Projects (sesame-
s.ftw.at)
SESAME – Semantic Smart Metering,
Enablers for Energy Efficiency (9’09-11’10)
- Prototype, proof of concepts, feasibility study
SESAME-S – Services for Energy
Efficiency (4’11-9’12)
- setting up usable smart home hardware, a
portal and repository
- organizing a test installation in real buildings:
in a school (Kirchdorf, Austria) and a factory
(Chernogolovka, Russia)
- developing specialized UIs and designing
mobile apps for the school use case
Consortium partner network of 6
organizations

4. Installations in Real Life Smart
Buildings
Motivation: work with real buildings, real data
and real users
Technology:
Several Smart Meters
Sensors (e.g. light, temperature, humidity)
Smart plugs, for individual sockets
Multi-utility management
(i.e. electricity, heating)
Shutdown services for PCs
User interfaces and apps: Web, tablet,
smartphone (Android)

5. Data-Driven Management in the
Intelligent Building
Millions of real life data triples collected
in the semantic repository

6. Energy Market Data
Grid Service
Information
Weather
Appliances Info
Forecast
Open Linked Data
Renewables Info Statistical
Weather Data
Public Data Cloud
Data Acquisition Energy Efficiency Services Private User Storage
Energy
Companies Portal
Consumer Energy Monitoring and
Agencies MApp Control System

7. Services Addressing Users @ School
Energy awareness,
monitoring
Remote control - manual and
programmed - e.g. scheduled activities
and triggering rules
How do we get the users?
By having workshops with pupils:
introduction to energy efficiency,
building analysis, explaining the
system and services

8. Empowering pupils to save energy
User Requirements
What are the stakeholders‘ needs? Personas
- Workshops at school with teachers, pupils,
janitors, management
How about energy awareness?
- 47% of the pupils did not know who is
responsible for the energy management in
their school.
- 69% would use an app to save energy on a
regular basis Questionnaire
How to design energy awareness
systems?
- Energy feedback and active shutdown of
computers (power management)
Participatory Design
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9. Empowering Pupils to Save Energy
Design and Prototyping
Design sketches Design comparisons
Final mobile and tablet designs

10. Empowering Pupils to Save Energy
Acceptance and Effects
 Using the power
management app
helped to save
energy
 No strong effect of
devices used (tablet
vs. smartphone)
 Novel ways of
energy saving are
possible, but significant
testing and
development is
necessary
NB: Rule based automation solution at the factory reported
a similar level of energy savings

11. Communicating energy efficiency –
application example (see www.alphaverda.com)
 Users subscribe for the MobileApp with some of their information
 Address of their house / GEO position
 Type of the household
 Energy provider
 Energy tariff
 Energy consumption
 Devices they have
 Benefits
 Hall of fame – a green point in the Green City Map
 Energy data in a GIS map in the Portal
 Environmental data (CO2, weather )
 Consumption and energy profiles
 Residential data
 Public buildings (schools, hospitals, government… )
 Getting insights based on aggregated data
 Which percentage of users from my geographic area use more energy than I use?
 Also a good service for city municipalities, governments
 Receiving recommendations about tariffs / appliances
 Sharing energy efficiency practices (e.g. as policies)

12. Vision: Homes2District – Talking Buildings
Knowledge-based, distributed, service-oriented system solution
to intelligently manage electric and thermal energy consumption and increase
the usage and demand-oriented production of green energy on district level.
Image credit: http://dryicons.com

13. Smart Home Energy Datamarketplaces
Idea: A platform for publishing and querying energy data and establishing
energy management services exchange between energy market stakeholders
active in the smart building segment.
- Evaluation in terms of benefits for the marketplace ecosystem participants and
enabling and simplifying creation of (new) data-intensive apps e.g. OpenFridge –
monitoring app for consumption
Technology: semantic modeling, data analysis, scalable and
economically viable datamarketplace infrastructures, new business models
Benefit: Energy companies, grid operators have means to assess the
Smart Grid on a more granular level, and provide more M2M data
services. Hardware manufacturers have the benefit in making their smart
homes more intelligent. Third party developers benefit from the possibility
to design Internet of Things apps, based on the open data. End users
benefit from the new apps.
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14. Conclusions
Real world as a research lab
Energy efficiency in buildings achieved
- Via intelligent automation
- Via effective human involvement
In the future, buildings, objects, agents will
be interconnected via data (and will be
even more intelligent)
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