November 3 - A European Perspective on Applications for Future Smart, Energy Efficient Buildings

Home

zarli

kazi

Presented by Alain Zarli, PhD, Head of Division, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) and Sami Kazi, PhD, Chief Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is the key for a 2-way flow of both energy and information in the energy sector and future smart grids. ICT will liberalize the market, leading to a change of business in the energy sector (in a similar way this has been the case for telecom with ICT). ICT will empower people through smart e-metering, new smart e-devices, etc. In France, ERDF (subsidiary of EDF and the largest electricity distribution network in the European Union) has launched a major transformation program that will see the replacement of 35 million electricity meters in France, beginning with a pilot trial of 300,000 meters. In the US, Google has huge ambitions to empower the people with means to see their detailed electricity use in the hopes this knowledge will reduce usage through consumer-owned electricity management devices, such as Google's PowerMeter that uses the iGoogle platform. Today, there is high and promising potential for ICT to become fully pervasive in the future optimization of energy in the built environment - where “energy-efficient smart buildings” will manage their information for an optimal operation of building energy flows and overall building life cycle performance.

This webinar will present the recent outcomes of an ongoing European R&D technology roadmap exercise (achieved through EC-funded Coordinated Action REEB - http://www.ict-reeb.eu) for IT to support energy efficiency in buildings, building management systems, neighborhood management systems, etc. REEB was launched in response to the need for coordinating and supporting current and future R&D in Europe, specifically in the area of ICT support to energy efficiency in construction. REEB is currently developing a European-wide agreed vision and roadmap to provide pathways to accelerate the adoption, take-up, development, and research of emerging and new technologies that may radically transform building construction and their associated services in terms of enhanced energy consumption.

Comments (0) add comment