Data-driven and proactive optimisation service for buildings

Technical building equipment (TBE) accounts for a significant proportion of the construction and maintenance costs of buildings. In Europe, it is also responsible for a significant proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. However, due to their dynamic load behaviour, MEP systems are extremely complex and difficult to analyse. The systems are therefore often operated inefficiently over several years without being noticed, causing considerable operating costs and thus wasting valuable resources. Optimisation potential in terms of thermal comfort and indoor air quality can also hardly be identified and exploited with the analysis tools and services currently available. Advances in digitalisation are opening up new opportunities to use data-driven optimisation methods and automatically identify performance gaps. However, this requires interdisciplinary cooperation in the areas of expertise of TGA, Internet of Sensors (IoS), Building Information Modelling (BIM), data protection and data analysis. Suitable sensor configurations, smart user-building interaction solutions and analysis algorithms are therefore being developed with a cross-industry partner network and integrated into a BIM-capable management tool. The result is a digital, proactive diagnostic tool for HVAC systems. This allows deviations from the ideal operating status to be detected automatically and optimisation and maintenance measures to be initiated and evaluated in a targeted manner. The synergetic use of control, modelling and AI-based methods means that the solutions developed are versatile and scalable for different building types.