Controls, energy management systems

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What is the difference between home automation and building automation?
Post date: 7 Mar 2023
Type: News

If you manage a large portfolio of buildings, you might be wondering how to define an accurate baseline for each one. A baseline helps you track energy use and set goals for reducing consumption. But if you are still manually generating baselines for each building, it can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. This post, aim to exemplified why it is important to automatically generate baselines for buildings to start saving energy.   
Post date: 3 Mar 2023
Type: Note

Why are smart buildings a smarter choice? Because they deliver three main benefits: savings, security and sustainability. For this reason, many existing buildings are transformed into smart and high-performance buildings by making use of edge technology. Among these technologies, we can cite artificial intelligence and machine learning which help to optimise the resources.
Post date: 3 Mar 2023
Type: News

The European Commission website provides an overview of the SRI implementation tools, including: factsheets, audio-visual materials, digital calculation tools, and EU guidelines for each country.   The session can be found under Topics > Energy efficienc > Energy efficient buildings > Smart Readiness Indicator.  
Post date: 2 Mar 2023
Type: Tool

Digital twins in construction are gaining more and more interest in the construction industry and they can revolutionise the way construction projects are developed and managed. A digital twin can provide a digital copy of a building or an infrastructure by leveraging data from various sources, such as sensors, 3D models and analytics tools.
Post date: 2 Mar 2023
Type: Publication

The emergence of innovative and digital technologies is completely changing the building management system (BMS) industry.
Post date: 2 Mar 2023
Type: News

Polish DSO Tauron has announced the installation of 1 million modern remote reading meters for their customers with the aim of better controlling electricity consumption. In fact, the installation would allow them to obtain data from grid operations. They assume that by 2030 all customers will have smart meters.  
Post date: 2 Mar 2023
Type: News

Open Thor Living Lab is a large-scale living lab where sustainable and innovative energy solutions come to life.   The Open Thor Living Lab is a top-level European innovation environment that focuses on innovative solutions for the energy transition on the one hand, but also wants to provide solutions for smart manufacturing and smart city applications on the other.  
Post date: 1 Mar 2023
Type: Link

The core concept of the LIFE project INEEXS is the deployment of integrated energy services across sectors and carriers, and the tokenization of energy saving data in a public blockchain to facilitate cooperation among market segments and actors.
Post date: 1 Mar 2023
Type: Link

According to Paul McCarthy, CTO at Service Works Global, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and digital twins can improve energy efficiency and reaching sustainability goals.
Post date: 28 Feb 2023
Type: News