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H2020Staff exchange2017–2022

SENSIBLE · SENSors and Intelligence in BuLt Environment

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-01-01 → 2022-06-30
EU contribution
€832,500
Participants
13
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

SENSors and Intelligence in BuLt Environment

Buildings contribute over 40% of the total energy demand, half of which is due to non-residential buildings. The increase in working population, hours spent in offices, and growth in demand for building services and improved comfort, escalates building energy demand. According to the European Commission (EC) 2010 Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, improving the energy efficiency of buildings will decrease by 5-6% the total EU energy consumption. All EU countries must set minimum energy performance requirements for new buildings, and for major renovation or retrofit work in old buildings. Based on the EC 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive, EU countries must draw-up long-term national building renovation strategies. Information and communications technology will play an essential role in reducing energy consumption of buildings as well as improving occupants’ comfort levels, through advanced sensing, simulation, modelling, analytical, and visualization tools. SENSIBLE attempts to answer the question of whether smart buildings can deliver on their energy efficiency and sustainability targets without compromising, but rather improve, their occupants’ perceived and sensed comfort. SENSIBLE will seamlessly incorporate multiple heterogeneous subsystems, tackling sensor design, communications and data processing to provide a comfortable working and living environment for all occupants as well as deliver on energy efficiency targets. This will impact how business services evolve under globalisation and sustainability challenges.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The goal of this project is to develop novel information sensing research and innovation approaches for acquiring, communicating and processing a large volume of heterogeneous datasets in the context of smart buildings, by building an international, inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral collaboration network through research and innovation staff exchanges and seamless exchange of ideas, expertise, data, testbeds, and know-how. The need to sense and process ever increasing amount of data requires novel engineering that goes far beyond conventional centralised methods, where signal acquisition, communications and data processing are performed centrally and independently. Building on integrating signal acquisition, communications and information extraction into an overarching smart sensing approach, the project will provide a holistic decision support framework for non-residential buildings of the future. The key challenges of providing intelligence to the building lie in ubiquitous sensing, inside and outside the building, and connecting the sensing technology to people and outside world via meaningful decision support. Though significant research has been dedicated to developing novel sensing and instrumentation technologies, further research and innovation advances are needed to integrate physical sensing to data processing via distributed estimation and fusion approaches, giving actionable meaning to the suite of collected data. In that context, it is necessary not only to continuously monitor the environment, equipment, systems and processes, but also to sense occupants’ behaviour inside and outside the building and provide timely response and feedback.The proposal will tackle the above challenges through several routes: (1) new information-driven sensor designs that connect technology with people and information; (2) new Internet-of-Everything based communications protocols for seamless distributed detection and estimation; (iii) intelligent data processing.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GlasgowCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTECORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONOF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS · TokyoJapan
  • PANONIT DOO ZA SISTEME ZASNOVANE NA RACUNARU RAZVOJ I PROIZVODNJU U OBLASTI INFORMACIONIH TEHNOLOGIJA · Novi SadSerbia
  • RAMBOLL UK LIMITED · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY · MontrealCanada
  • SCHEIDT & BACHMANN SLOVENSKO S.R.O. · ZilinaSlovakia
  • Simon Fraser University · BurnabyCanada
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY · SydneyAustralia
  • TONGJI UNIVERSITY · SHANGAIChina
  • UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU FAKULTET TEHNICKIH NAUKA · Novi SadSerbia
  • YORK UNIVERSITY · TorontoCanada
  • ZILINSKA UNIVERZITA V ZILINE · ZilinaSlovakia

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union