Research
DIMMER (October 2013- October 2016) aims to create a District Information Modelling and Management system for Energy Reduction (DIMMER) able to collect, process and remotely visualize district level energy usage. The system will collect information provided by users using their personal devices and represent in real-time information collected by sensors installed in the buildings and along the distribution networks. At the core of the system, a processing engine will compute user-feedback actions in terms of suggestions where possible in real-time, about energy-positive and economically convenient actions. A number of client applications will be developed that are able to interact with the core system to collect and visualize district information remotely to end users.
DIMMER is funded by 7th Framework programme grant agreement (n. 609084) and coordinated by Politecnico of Turin.
COMFORTSENSE: promoting comfort indoor and energy sustainability, gathering data with crowdsensing procedures (October 2014 - September 2015).
Lack of interior comfort and excessive energy consumption are among the main problems of many public buildings. The project aims to address these issues with a decoupling approach, by increasing the level of user comfort while reducing the energy consumption and the related expenditure, in order to ensure sustainable management.
We are developing a tool for monitoring public buildings energy consumption, involving not only the operators and public authorities, but also the entire citizenry through the deployment of open data. Project’s main expectation are: developing services for users in terms of decision support tools for the building management; definition of policies for sustainable and efficient management of the environment, pointing to users’s greater satisfaction; managing and analyzing large amounts of data to study improvement policies for the management of environments
The testing will be conduct on the Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE). Data from environmental sensors will be crossed with the feedback relating to comfort sent via app and smart objects by students, faculty and staff. These data will be included in the Smart Data Platform made available by the Piedmont Region
The project involves the collaboration of public and private entities, with different technical skills: Telecom Italy, KINGDOM (Interdepartmental Centre ICXT), ProLogic, CSP, Sinbit, Screen99, Enhancers, Environment Park, Modelway, POLITO.
Project funded by Piedmont Region.