SUNSHINE delivers an extensible open toolkit featuring three smart services for: - energy assessment of buildings at urban scale for the creation of “ecomaps” and their energy pre-certification; - optimisation of energy consumption of heating/cooling systems based on localised weather forecasts and energy modelling of buildings; - optimisation of power consumption through remote control of public illumination levels. The toolkit will be delivered as interoperable open middleware ensuring, in an interoperable manner: access to geospatial features; access to Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) functions; definition of alerts. http://www.sunshineproject.eu/

1. Urb. Sabina Dimitriu, URBASOFIA
Urban Planning Center meeting
12 February 2015
SUNSHINE
“Smart UrbaN ServIces for
Higher eNergy Efficiency”

2. Presentation
• Projectrationale,scopeandobjectives
• SUNSHINEScenarios
• Developedservicesandsolutions
• URBASOFIAinSUNSHINE
• Trainingandaffiliationforcities
ConsortiumSUNSHINEProject | GAno.325161 | CIPFPproject,ICTPSPPilotTypeB | Feb2013–Jan2016

3. Rationale
• Buildings account for approximately 40% of the whole final energy
consumption within European communities (EC, 2010).
• More than two thirds of the average energy consumed per residential
unit is through inefficient heating and cooling systems.
• The most cost-effective way of meeting climate
change targets is through improved energy
efficiency. Therefore, more efficient public
lighting and better building energy
consumption represent the main focus of
the Smart UrbaN ServIces for Higher eNergy
Efficiency (SUNSHINE) project.

4. Smart UrbaN Services for HIgher eNergy Efficiency”
• Innovative digital services, interoperable with existing geographic web-
service infrastructures, supporting improved energy efficiency at the
urban and building level.
• Smart service platform accessible from both a web-based client and
an App for smartphones and tablets, for:
1. Automatic large scale assessment of
building energy behavior,
2. Optimization of energy consumption of
building level heating/cooling systems
3. Interoperable controlofpublicillumination
systemsbasedonAMR.

5. • Assesses energy behaviors of buildings from integration of existing
geographic information (e.g. cadastral data and topographic data)
in order to perform large-scale energy assessments, creating energy
maps ( “ecomaps”) and energy pre-certification of buildings.
• Energy maps ("eco-maps", "energy density maps") are an innovative
and particularly useful tool for a large array of specialists, public
workers, researchers and industry, who can use them for example in:
• Analyzingthepossibilitiesforlargescaleurbanrenewal, especiallyinwhat
concernsthedevelopmentorextensionofdistrictheatingnetworksandthe
creationofenergystrategiesforhard-to-tackleordeprivedurbanareas;
• Prioritizingcity-wideinvestmentsandassisting decisionsondevelopmentarea
locationsbasedonprovidedinformationonthestateoftheartenergy-wise
aswellasnearbyenergyopportunitiesfordevelopers.
Scenario 1: Energy maps

6. Example Energy Map for Ferrara pilot city
http://sunshine.graphitech-projects.com/

7. • Reducing unnecessary energy consumption caused by legacy
heating/cooling systems with no intelligent control technology;
• Smart service which, based on the assessment of the energy behavior
of a specific building, notifies the user how to set the heating/cooling
systems according to localized weather forecast, with the aim of
delivering optimal comfort/energy consumption ratio.
• The Application targets the building and energy managers as users for:
• Monitoring consumption and costs and their relation to both local
weather and related to internal operations
• Receiving alerts when important events occur and suggestions on
how to adjust controllers accordingly
• Controlling the heating/cooling systems and programming them
following the application suggestion
Scenario 2: Building energy awareness

8. Energy awareness readings – Ferrara pilot
http://sunshine.graphitech-projects.com/

9. • Reducing energy consumption from illumination of public streets or
buildings of public relevance through optimization of lighting levels
according to real conditions.
Scenario 3: Remote control of lighting networks
• Smart managing system for
the lighting plants: Platform
which interacts with the
lighting system and
simultaneously collects
information from the
infrastructure to optimize the
lighting service and/or
provide other ancillary
services.

10. • Ferrara, IT
• Lamia, GR
• Paola, MT
• Rovereto, IT
• Trentino, IT
• Val di non, IT
• Zagreb and Split, HR
• Bassano del grappa, IT
PILOTS

11. SUNSHINE enables planners and architects to:
• Rapidly estimate energy performances of buildings at urban scale
and produce relative thematic maps;
• Retrieve analytical indicators which can be used further in
substantiation studies, cost-benefit analyses etc. for updating
planning documentations, drafting urban regeneration strategies
and programmes, etc.
• Define specific local
energy saving policies
and planning strategies
regarding public lighting
based on precise
information on
illumination networks.

12. SUNSHINE enables city administrators to:
• Create energy-saving policies based on true requirement of public
building stock;
• Delineate and prioritize intervention areas / districts for large-scale,
concerted and cost-effective investments aimed at building
refurbishment;
• Optimize running and maintenance costs at city level through
large-scale optimization of public illumination network according to
real requirement;

13. URBASOFIA in SUNSHINE
• Leader of the socio-economic impact assessment study for piloting
the SUNSHINE services in the 8 cities and regions of the project;
• Leader of the Awareness and Dissemination workpackage:
• Overseeing project activities such as workshops, conferences,
international seminars, organization of the end conference,
publications and articles, local pilot awareness activities;
• Leader of the Training task.
• Actively searching for liaisons, conference co-organizing or
affiliation opportunities.

14. Outside training and affiliation
• Apart from training workshops in different
partner’s locations and assisted self-
learning activity, we foresee training on
the project methodology for other
European cities (observers, affiliated
towns and regions). Assisted step-by-step
implementation walkthrough will be
provided based on the interested cities’
technology readiness and objectives in
relation to their selected scenarios and
target users.
• We have deployed a registration process for cities and planners who
wish to follow the SUNSHINE roadmap and implement their own smart
services for higher energy efficiency.

15. Sabina DIMITRIU | Town and Regional Planner
URBASOFIA | General Manager of EU Projects
sabina.dimitriu@urbasofia.eu| www.urbasofia.eu
Thank you!