An Open Platform for Managing Building Energy

• Title: An Open Platform for Managing Building Energy
• Description: The Hit2Gap platform will provide data collection from various sources, and different applications that can handle those data for energy reduction purposes : fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), forecasting, modeling energy-related behavior of occupants, energy consumption simulation; visualization tools will also be available. The aggregation of these modules will support managers in monitoring their building and in a better understanding of their energy consumption.
• Data Domain(s): Building product, Building Devices, Building Data, Building Behavior, Building Energy
• Objectives: The goals of the project are:

1. To provide an open platform for smart building purpose; it is modular enough so that new applications can be plugged and integrated through web APIs
2. To demonstrate that a variety of application oriented to the energetic consumption of a building can be integrated
3. To understand and reduce the gap between a building’s planned energetic consumption and its actual consumption.

• Stakeholders: Facility Manager, Owners of buildings/Decision-makers/Managers of buildings/Energy-managers/Estates managers, ESCO, BMS providers, ICT professionals, Maintenance companies, Developers of modules
• LD Benefits:

1. An open platform for the development of modules oriented towards energetic monitoring of buildings
2. An ontology alignment including building information, system informations, measures, occupancy modeling and performance simulations

• Challenges

1. Heterogeneous data
2. High Volume of Data

• Solution Occurs in BLC Stage: Operation, Retrofitting/Refurbishment/Reconfiguration
• Uses Data Generated During BLC Stage: Construction, Commissioning, Operation
• Data Standards Used: IFC, SSN, SIMModel, Onto_MG
• Associated Projects: Hit2Gap Project
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• Wiki contributors: Pierre Bourreau (Nobatek)