Location
- Videolab building Strijp-S,Eindhoven
- Building NEXT, Strijp-S Eindhoven
Objectives
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;
- Use thermal storage (heating & cooling) as flexibility source;
- 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 tothe ‘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.
Technologies and infrastructures
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.
- iOffice 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.
- Hyrde’s Ekco Building Management platform
This multi-purpose platform enables its user to manage and control the complete (IoT) ecosystem of a building on an intelligent way. It runs all the necessary software for operating the system.