COLLECTiEF-Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility is a €4,5m H2020 innovation action. The project aims to enhance energy flexibility and climate resilience through a collective intelligence (CI) approach.
Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption, making them the largest single energy consumer in Europe. Almost 75% of the EU building stock is energy inefficient and at least 75% of today’s buildings will still exist by 2050 and considering the current annual renovation rate (0.4-1.2%). The available solutions to smart up the buildings are slow and not very practical to integrate the legacy equipment in the flexibility market. Moreover, large-scale mapping of buildings’ smartness to increase the energy flexibility in urban areas needs a seamless ‘crosstalk’ between grid and buildings, but none of the available approaches provide persistent and easy-to-implement solutions for this issue. Energy flexibility also needs to consider the occupants of a building and their needs and preferences to be socially accepted and hence result effective.
The COLLECTiEF project aims to enhance, implement, test, and evaluate an interoperable and saleable energy management system based on CI that allows easy and seamless integration of legacy equipment into a collaborative network within and between existing buildings and urban energy systems with reduced installation cost, data transfer and computational power while increasing data security, energy flexibility and climate resilience.
The specific objectives are;
- Enhancement and adaptation of algorithms for creating a CI-based energy flexible network
- Realization of CI-based cost-effective system components with easy deployment and maintenance
- Demonstration and testing of a CI-based energy network in the real environment
- Testing and implementing a scalable and customizable occupant-centric fusion sensor network for accurate and non-invasive environmental monitoring
- Designing and implementing a smart, user-centric, and user-friendly digital platform for interacting with users and controlling technical building systems
- The new business model for energy services including a clear model for commercialization of the COLLECTiEF system
