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Smart Urbane Services for Higher Energy Efficiency
Short overview of the project and its objectives
16-17March
Raffaele de Amicis| #graphitechFondazione GraphiTech, Via alla Cascata 56/C - 38123 Trento - Italy
Final review meetingTrento
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2nd Day of the review meeting
2nd Day of the review meeting
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SUNSHINE - Smart UrbaN ServIces for Higher eNergy Efficiency (GA no: 325161)
Call ID: 1.1 Smart urban digital services for energy efficiencyReference: CIP-Pilot actions 2012 325161 SUNSHINEStarted: 1st February 2013Duration: 36 MonthsPartners: 16Coordinating institution: Fondazione GraphitechCoordinator: Dr Raffaele De AmicisBudget: 4,628,000.00 Euros
The Sunshine project contest
Energy is the lifeblood of modern industrial
society.
Modern cities rely heavily on fossil fuels for the maintenance of essential services and for powering devices that are used in
industry and commerce.
Energy powers homes, transport systems, industry, infrastructure and commerce.
The availability of abundant, cheap power has enabled societies to develop machines and systems that can enhance the quality of human life and increase the efficiency and productivity of our work. Industrialised societies have relied on cheap, abundant supplies of fossil fuels particularly oil and coal and their usage has increased steeply for most of the past century.
This pattern is being emulated by many developing nations. However, things are changing as the drawbacks of heavy
reliance on fossil fuels become increasingly apparent.
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Due to the instability of fuel prices, energy intensive industries will find it increasingly difficult to maintain a competitive position. Householders and government agencies will
experience budget over runs on items that are fossil fuel dependent.
As a consequence of these concerns, attention has been focused on ways of saving energy in both supply and use.Energy management offers the opportunity to stabilise prices and to reduce the adverse environmental and social impacts of energy use in cities. It provides opportunities to make substantial savings in energy bills across all sectors - domestic, commercial, industrial and government - through a various means, many of which require minimal investment of funds. By making such savings, the quality of our environment will improve with consequent benefits for consumers.
Sunshine project scenario
Sunshine project scenario• Scenario 1. Energy Maps: Automatic urban-scale assessment of buildings energy need
based on data available from public services (e.g. cadastre, planning data etc.). The information on energy performances will be used to automatically create urban-scale “energy maps” (or “ecomaps”) to be used for planning activities and urban-scale energy pre-certification purposes. • Scenario 2. Pilot Buildings Energy Performance Management: Localised weather forecasts
available through interoperable web-services will be used to ensure optimisation of energy consumption of heating/cooling systems at “pilot buildings” level, through automatic alerts that will be sent to both the SUNSHINE App installed on the smartphone of the final users and centralised systems adopted by firms in order to manage adequate energy efficiency policies. • Scenario 3. Remote Public Lighting Management: SUNSHINE will ensure interoperable
control of public illumination systems based on Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) facilities remotely accessible, via interoperable standards, from a web-based client as well as from an App for smartphones or tablets.
Sunshine contribution and Expected results
• Deliver three web-services compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• integrate existing technologies for SOS/SES services within a middleware based on OGC standards
• deliver three client applications through customisation of existing software solutions
• formalise an extension to the OGC standard CityGML on building energy efficiency and to propose it to the OGC standardisation committee
• assess the impact and sustainability (both in the short- and long-term) of the project through comparison of baseline energy data collected over 12 months
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Project MeetingsKick-off meeting (M01) Trento, IT
1° Project Meeting (M06) Trento, IT
2° Project Meeting + First Review (M12) Trento, IT
3° Project Meeting (M18) Trento, IT
4° Project Meeting (M24) Zagreb, HR
5° Second Review (M26) Zagreb, HR
6° Project Meeting (M30) Athens, GR
7° Project Meeting (M35) Trento, IT
8° Project Meeting (M36) Bologna, IT
9° Project Meeting + Final review (M38) Trento, IT
The last ever episode…
2° review meeting : 28th° of April 2015, Zagreb
Good progress(the project has achieved most of its objectives and technical goals for the period
with relatively minor deviations).
• For all the pilots the “energy maps” have been generated; • All pilots were able to monitor the energy consumptions of
their pilot buildings or public light through smart meters; • Almost all the pilots were able to provide these information to
the central SUNSHINE server; • The models at the basis of the energy map production and
suggestion services have been defined. • All the pilots have provided the energy consumption baseline; • The web application has been released; • The mobile application prototype has implemented and
deployed.
At the end of the second year of the project:
And now time for a new review
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SUNSHINE - Smart UrbaN ServIces for Higher eNergy Efficiency (GA no: 325161)
The Project GANT
Last 12 months of the project have focus on the pilot deployment of the technologies and methodologies designed and developed during the first two years of the project. Pilot phase is a crucial aspect of the whole project. Pilots are not only useful to raise users’ awareness through a “learn by doing” process, but they test the technologies in real operational conditions. This has in turn allowed gathering data on the usability of the technologies as well as further energy consumption data that will increase the size of the database of the SUNSHINE IT services.
The piloting activities are focused mainly in: • To Set up the pilot IT infrastructure as designed during WP4; • To involve the pilot users on testing the platform; • To assess the achievements in terms of energy saving using SUNSHINE;• To organize training session addressed to pilot users.
Last 12 months of the project have focus on the pilot deployment of the technologies and methodologies designed and developed during the first two years of the project. Pilot phase is a crucial aspect of the whole project. Pilots are not only useful to raise users’ awareness through a “learn by doing” process, but they test the technologies in real operational conditions. This has in turn allowed gathering data on the usability of the technologies as well as further energy consumption data that will increase the size of the database of the SUNSHINE IT services.
The piloting activities are focused mainly in: • To Set up the pilot IT infrastructure as designed during WP4; • To involve the pilot users on testing the platform; • To assess the achievements in terms of energy saving using SUNSHINE;• To organize training session addressed to pilot users.
The pilot deployment has brought to a number of undertaken activities and findings. The technological solutions implemented in the projects are both completed and tested in a validated environment and, after a series of integration and testing loops, the final SUNSHINE solution has been released and made available at the end of the project. IT services that allow to deploy the SUSNHINE infrastructure have been implemented and are available for the pilot access through the dedicate web and mobile SUSNHINE applications. This guarantees that pilot actions have started on M25 according to the amended DoW.
The main technical objectives achieved during the last 12 months are related to: : • The deployment and set-up of the pilot IT infrastructures in order to communicate in a
robust way with the SUNSHINE central infrastructure ; • The improvements and updating of the web and mobile client interface following the users
feedbacks and bugs findings ; • The improvements and extension of some SUNSHINE services (i.e. refinement of the energy
model including internal gains, energy maps generation for cooling needs).
In addition to that, the partnership was involved in the completion of the Standardisation, interoperability and methodologies for energy (WP3). This activity is very important to ensure the adherence of SUNSHINE technical implementation to the standardization activities in order to guarantee the scalability and reliability of the proposed solutions outside the controlled pilot environment. A direct involvement of SUNSHINE consortium within the CityGML energy ADE standardization working group6 has brought to the definition of a SUNSHINE data model fully compliant with this on-going standard, furthermore the analysis, development and testing of the pilot IT infrastructures based on Green Button initiative has posed SUNSHIEN project as reference benchmark for the implementation of this protocol which is increasingly used by energy companies.
From not technical point of view the last year of the project has been dedicated, among others, to the design and development of the business plan of the project; in particular following the suggestion of the EU to the definition of each partner business plan in order to define the exploitation of the project in the short and long-terms. The outputs of this activity were:
• Market assessment of SUNSHINE tools environment. • Partners’ individual business plans. • Consortium exploitation plan.
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