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Affordable and digital solutions to Build the next generatiON of smart EU buildings

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Making buildings smarter, greener, and more user-friendly

In a world increasingly focused on the energy transition, the 2021 EPBD recast emphasised the pivotal role of buildings in achieving an integrated, renewable energy-based EU system. The urgency to digitalise and decarbonise, especially in light of the REPowerEU Plan, has never been clearer. In this context, the EU-funded BuildON project aims to create a scalable, versatile solution for intelligent building services. This TRL8 smart transformer toolbox will enhance energy performance across diverse building types and smart readiness levels. Through a universal building API, BuildON simplifies the intricacies of communication between heterogeneous systems, enabling real-time monitoring and control of energy devices. Digital twins, representing buildings and their systems, offer advanced simulation and control capabilities.

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The 2021 EPBD recast highlights buildings' central role in the energy transition towards an integrated and renewable energy-based EU energy system. Smarter buildings will support the digitalisation and decarbonisation transition to the benefit of building occupants, owners and the energy system. Improving energy performance and reducing energy demands are even more relevant in the context of the REPowerEU Plan to rapidly reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels and accelerate the green transition. BuildON seeks to develop a highly replicable, generic solution to deliver intelligent building services, facilitate the integration of heterogeneous systems and technologies, and help Build the next generatiON of Smart buildings.
The main objective of BuildON is to develop and demonstrate a Smart Transformer Toolbox at TRL8 to plan and achieve improved energy performance applicable to the broadest range of building typologies and smart readiness levels via a comprehensive demonstration campaign involving five representative real-life use cases. This toolbox will offer affordable, adaptative, close-to-market and easy-to-install SRI-aligned services to continuously Monitor, Assess, Predict and Optimise (MAPO services) a building’s performance. A unified representation of the building, exposed through a Universal Building API, will abstract all field-level communication complexity, allowing the energy devices’ homogeneous real-time monitoring and control. Moreover, the generation of (Maturity Level 3 and 4) Digital Twins will allow simulation and control of a building and its systems. User-friendly decision support and user empowerment tools for facility managers and occupants will be part of the toolbox to explore, understand and expand their buildings' smart capabilities.
By providing a unified approach to interacting with buildings, the floor is offered to develop a building app store that significantly accelerates the Smart Transformation of existing and new buildings

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HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-01

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Net EU contribution
€ 632 875,00
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PQ TECNOLOGICO BOECILLO 205
47151 Boecillo
Spain

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Centro (ES) Castilla y León Valladolid
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€ 632 875,00

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