Netherlands

• Videolab building Strijp-S,Eindhoven
• Building NEXT, Strijp-S Eindhoven

The Netherlands’ demos will be installed in two different buildings, aiming at distinct target groups (building owners and households), following different objectives.

Commercial

• Optimize the energy consumption based on real time data and external data sources;
• Enable the opportunity to participate on the energy market;
• Controlling local heating based on real time events;
• Reduce the energy bill;
• Lower the peak load of energy consumption;
• Increase the level of comfort, convenience, safety and sustainability for tenants of the building;
• Implement a state-of-the-art building management system;
• Create awareness for the energy transition that is taking place;
• Give an opportunity to be actively involved in the energy transition.
• Creating and validating new business opportunities (services) for different stakeholders.

Residential

• Increase the level of comfort, convenience, safety and sustainability;
• Enable the opportunity to participate on the energy market;
• Use household appliances as a source of flexibility in the demand for energy; Lower the peak load of energy consumption;
• Reduce the energy bill;
• Provide a state-of-the-art smart home and an ecosystem to add individual sensors, devices and appliances;
• Give access to the ‘app store ‘for smart home services;
• Create awareness for the energy transition that is taking place;
• Give an opportunity to be actively involved in the energy transition.
• Creating and validating new business opportunities (services) for different stakeholders.

Building owners will be able to test the next level of facility management and explore new services; while households will experience new technologies and a whole new way of living. The new technologies that will be provided are:

• User friendly interface

This Graphical User Interface (GUI) is used to manage and control all sensors, devices and appliances in the home.

• Hyrde Ekco app

This interface enables office users to use different services and is a platform for communication between user’s and the community manager.

• Hyrde’s Ekco platform

This multi-purpose platform provides additional services to the Smart Things app and is the central communication point of the home. It runs all the necessary software for operating the system.

• TNO’s ReFlex platform:

This platform organizes demand and supply of energy, as tool for aggregation and scheduling of energy flexibility.