On the 23rd and 24th of August, the E-DYCE project held its final meeting at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, bringing together all consortium partners. During this gathering, participants discussed on the remaining project aspects and reviewed the progress of the final deliverables. Particularly, task leaders provided updates on their ongoing work and discussed some remaining details needed to complete the deliverables. Ultimately, the meeting concluded with productive and enlightening discussions about the potential for an E-DYCE 2 opportunity.”

On the 25th of August, the consortium partners boarded a visit to the Municipality of Torre Pellice, where the selected school was used as a practical example for implementing the E-DYCE methodology and technologies. As part of this visit to the school, a dedicated workshop took place, focusing on an in-depth discussion of the technical aspects of the E-DYCE methodology.

Monitor and optimize the energy consumption of buildings.

This workshop, organized by Estia, aims to present, on the one hand, the results of research from the European E-DYCE project and, on the other hand, the technical solutions offered on the French-speaking Swiss market.

https://www.estia.ch/workshop-21-juin-2023

Three EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects, D^2EPC, E-DYCE & ePANACEA , joined forces in organizing a final conference to present their outcomes, as all of them are reaching their end after 3 years of hard work. The event was held physically on the 24th of May 2023 at Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels. The conference focused on “Next Generation Energy Performance Assessment, Rating and Certification: Towards a Smart and Decarbonised Future for European Buildings” where each project presented its own findings on how to optimize and extend the use of Energy Performance Certificates.

The conference contributed to the dialogue ahead of EPCs interlinked with AI, platforms, data and the BIM-based digital twin concept and provided participants the opportunity to discuss about:

• The global context, EU policy context, EPBD Recast, REPower EU etc. regarding EPCs
• The gaps of the existing energy performance certification schemes
• The technology, policy and market insights from the three projects
• Specific results from the three projects
• The opportunities and challenges of dynamic and smart EPCs

The three projects’ specific objectives have been:

Set the grounds for the NextGen of dynamic EPCs for the operational assessment of buildings energy performance, building upon actual data and the ‘digital twin’ concept to enable enhanced multi-parameter assessment and provide improved AI-driven assessment recommendations (D^2EPC project)

The natural evolution of the conventional EPC into real time optimisation of building performance and comfort, by capturing the building’s dynamic behavior, and simultaneously providing transparent feedback, through an intuitive interface (E-DYCE project)

Making use of the most advanced techniques in dynamic and automated simulation modelling, big data analysis and machine learning, inverse modelling or the estimation of potential energy savings and economic viability check (ePANACEA project)

In 2020, D^2EPC, E-DYCE and ePANACEA became part of the Next Gen EPCs cluster which also includes 10 more related projects: X-tendo, U-CERT, QualDeEPC, EPC-RECAST, crossCert, EUBSuperHub, iBRoad2EPC, TIMEPAC, SmartlivingEPC and CHRONICLE.

The conference included summary presentations of outcomes by the 3 projects’ partners, as well as insightful contributions and roundtable discussions with EU experts.

Please find the agenda of the conference here

Watch all the presentations here

Press release here

Abstract:

FusiX is a domain agnostic framework, developed by EMTECH GmbH, that allows the creation decision support and situational awareness systems FusiX is being used in the context of the E-DYCE project as the integration point between technology providers and building integrators and facilitates the provision of the project’s mobile and web user interfaces.

In this webinar we will demonstrate both our success story and the difficulties we encountered in unifying numerous disparate actors with changing requirements.

Table of Contents:

• FusiX Concept in general

      – Overview

      – Information Model and Agents

• E-DYCE application overview / FusiX use within E DYCE

      – Information Model Specialization for E-DYCE

      – Backend Frontend (demonstrate both Mobile and Web perspectives)

      – Extensibility and Modularity

• Future applications and Business Perspective

We are thrilled to announce the remarkable success of the Joint Final Conference organized by the three “sister” EU projects: E-DYCE, D2EPC and ePANACEA, held at Le Plaza Hotel in Brussels on 24^th of May 2023! It was an inspiring gathering of professionals and visionaries from various universities, research institutes, industries and organizations, all dedicated to driving innovation in the field.

The event titled “Next Generation Energy Performance Assessment, Rating and Certification: Towards a Smart and Decarbonized Future for European Buildings” provided the opportunity for exchanging ideas, exploring emerging trends, and discussing the challenges and prospects that lie ahead. During the conference, all speakers shared their expertise, presented the latest developments in technology, best practices and insightful strategies.  Moreover, the attendants had the privilege of experiencing exciting presentations and thoughtful panel discussions that left them with valuable insights.

Moreover, the event provided fruitful networking opportunities, allowing participants to connect with other professionals and experts in the field, and to explore initiatives for future collaborations and synergies.

We express our greatest gratitude to all speakers for their input and to the organizers who made this event possible.

On March 21^st and 22^nd, 2022, the partners of the E-DYCE project gathered, in-person, at Villa Lubin in Rome, Italy for the 6^th PSC meeting of the project. The purpose of the meeting was to review and discuss the progress and future plans of all E-DYCE Work Packages related to the development of a Dynamic Energy Performance Certification. Task leaders provided updates on their ongoing work and presented plans for the next, and last, semester. The consortium also evaluated the results achieved so far and exchanged ideas on how to tackle the major challenges facing the project.

Discussions of this project meeting were especially focused on the updating the Dynamic EPC protocol (KPIs) including data availability and pilot needs (WP2). Additionally, valuable discussions were performed on improving the dynamic simulation methods (WP3) and on the integration approaches (WP4) assisting the key objectives of the project towards a novel and holistic renovation roadmap to all demo cases (WP5). Finally, a detailed and in-depth discussion was dedicated on the dissemination and communication activities (WP6).

“Dynamic energy performance evaluation of buildings in operation requires gathering data from a multitude of controllers and sensors. This data collection is enabled by recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT) as well as Building Management Systems (BMS) communication interfaces, combined with exploitation of open data.

Once the data is collected, it is further processed in cloud environments to carry out monitoring analyses that will deliver further value to the building operator and occupants. This processing builds upon modern cloud and data processing technologies, whose recent advances have opened new avenues within building energy and indoor climate management.

Experiences from the E-DYCE demonstration project will be presented in this webinar combining perspectives from industrial actors with full-scale solutions as well as building analysis experts.”

For registration to te webinar please enter here

On the 24th of October 2022, Eng. Manuela Vigliotti successfully discussed her master’s degree thesis in telecommunication engineering (ICT for Smart Society) reaching the maximum evaluation with laude.  

Title: “Control approaches for ventilative cooling and indoor air quality systems in a school demo-building in Torre Pellice”.  

Introduction: “This thesis is part of the European project E-DYCE, and it aims at implementing a control solution to remotely manage three different detached mechanical ventilation units installed in an E-DYCE school demo building in Torre Pellice. The main objective is to control indoor air quality and ventilation for cooling by comparing different control strategies (6 in total) that run in parallel over three units to find the optimal one, considering both environmental parameters and energy consumption. Control approaches for ventilative cooling are monitored by testing them in the school using SOAP to retrieve current conditions of rooms from Capetti sensors and Modbus to send control signals to mechanical ventilation units. Indoor air quality control strategies are simulated with the Energy Management System of EnergyPlus using calibrated models of actual rooms to obtain significant results.” 

GEP and CORE INNOVATION, partners of E-DYCE EU project participated at the Annual Sustainability Conference 2022 organized by the SBC GREECE, on 19^th of October 2022.

A very interesting conference with exceptional speakers, where the protentional role of the NextGenEPCs in the sustainable buildings context of the future was discussed.

In the beginning of the 3^rd and final year of the E-DYCE project, the consortium organized its 6^th PCS Meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus. The meeting took place in the Multipurpose Municipal Center of Nicosia, courtesy of the Municipality of Nicosia, and was organized by partner ESTIA.

All partners of the consortium met in person for three (3) days to evaluate the progress of the project, by presenting and discussing all the effort and updated achievements in all ongoing Work Packages. Moreover, a very fruitful and in-depth assessment on the future work planning and the upcoming activities during project’s critical final year, took place.  

We were pleased that 4 members of project’s Advisory Board joined the meeting providing their valuable thoughts and recommendations. Ms. Tine Steen Larsen, Mr. Nikos Hadjinicolaou and Mr. Savvas Valchos participated in person, whilst Mr. Claude-Alain Roulet participated on-line.

Initially, our coordinator Prof. Michal Pomianowski from AAU presented the status of the project, together with the co-coordinator Asst. Prof. Giacomo Chiesa from POLITO.

Afterwards, the WP & Task leaders presented the ongoing work, as well as the description of next semester planned actions. The consortium assessed the results achieved so far, and the partners exchanged ideas on how to address the major challenges of the project.

A brief description of the work and the upcoming activity for each WP is following below.