Intelligent building management system for energy demand and supply optimisation

The quality of life in Europe’s cities states that although quality of life has improved in many areas, in other areas such as environmental issues and energy efficiency have deteriorated. Energy consumption for building-related services accounts for approximately 40% of European Union’s total energy consumption. Total carbon emissions generated by the buildings account for 35%. In such places, people, companies and public authorities experience specific needs and demands regarding domains such as energy efficiency, environment and transportation services. These domains are increasingly enabled and facilitated by web-based applications, service oriented architectures, ubiquitous sensing infrastructure, advanced information management applications such as data warehousing and data mining technologies which generate actionable information for intelligent and predictive control for further optimised smart buildings and cities. The research presented in this paper focuses on an innovative model-driven development approach that integrates systems in building supply-side and building demand-side to balance efficient energy production from off-the-grid systems and optimized consumption. The research findings will be demonstrated in a residential building in Hannover, Germany integrating different energy efficient production/consumption systems addressing the renewable energy technologies coupled with energy storage systems and building energy management systems comprising scalable and robust sensing network platforms, energy performance monitoring and data warehouse technologies. The research will be carried out within the scope of State of Lower Saxony Innovation Support Program (Niedersächsischen Innovationsförderprogramms) which is funded by Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport of State of Lower Saxony-Germany (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr), Ministry for Environment, Energy and Climate Protection of State of Lower Saxony-Germany (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz), Investment and Support Bank of State of Lower Saxony Nbank (Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank) and the European Union.