Intelligent Energy Management for Multi-family Buildings

This project will define, develop and demonstrate an Intelligent Energy Management for multifamily
buildings. The project will propose the most cost-effective setup (based on easily installable
wireless sensors and actuators) that is a good fit for both newly built as well as existing/under
renovation multi-family buildings. The setup will include temperature sensors for measuring inhouse
temperature in the different apartments as well as the temperature of the water in the pipes of
the water-carried heating installation in different parts of the building or in different units of the
installation. The system will periodically collect values from temperature sensors and heat meters.

The communication technology in the project needs to cater for different types (layouts) of multifamily
buildings. A cloud-based data analysis and modeling system will be developed to better
understand energy performance, make decisions to optimise energy use in real time, and to
optimise the operations and maintenance of the building. The optimization will be done by
controlling the different elements in the heating system (the thermostatic valves in the apartments,
the flat stations, the electronic heating controllers or the motorized control valves). The design the
energy management system will take the type of buildings and their architecture into account.