Regarding the software, BCORE is a Building Energy Modelling (BEM) tool of own development. It is an advanced technological solution that enable the automated calibration of simulations. The new system facilitates the introduction of data and the fulfilling of the building model, decreasing both the costs of deployment and maintenance to the end user. It is a ground-breaking solution and a novel energy simulation program. Through a holistic approach, this software integrates into a single tool multiple utilities and applications, previously not found commercially combined; modelling, simulation, calibration, and the implementation of Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) in buildings. In addition, BCORE has a friendly framework, easily usable for any end-user, not necessarily IT expert. The introduction of a real data building monitoring system provides an innovation solution.
The newly developed Expert System not only provides the outcomes from BCORE, but also incorporates knowledge from the Facility Asset Management System and real time data to give users insight in the calculated and actual Building Energy Performance for dynamic steering and long-term monitoring.
All knowledge gathered by researching the business operation topics provides the Enginency consortium the ammunition for successful and rapid market take up. This already resulted in a stronger pre-commercial market position as described in the business cases and technological impact in other (EU) projects e.g. the positive spin-off from cloud server solutions.
All data from the sensors moving to the cloud, or vice versa, goes through the gateway. The latetr pre-processes the data locally before sending it on to the cloud. When data is aggregated, summarized and tactically analysed by the gateway, it minimizes the volume of data that needs to be forwarded on to the cloud, which can have a big impact on response times and network transmission costs, thus the cloud server can be reduced considerably. With smaller cloud servers the overall cost can be much lower. The gateway allows the integration of almost any other IoT ready sensors (weather station from the most important brands in the market), which gives it the opportunity to adapt the project to any future requirement and geographic and climate situation.
Futurasmus’s Multi-protocol OPEN Internet of Things (IoT) GATEWAY is also feature ready, meaning that it can be used to interconnect different building automation bus systems. For instance, KNX, Bacnet, Modbus, etc. Also, being an IoT gateway enables the possibility to connect of other protocols like MQTT, IFTTT, REST services, etc.
The transition media is also not limited to one but to many, like: Bluetooth, WiFi, Radio Protocols, LTE-A, and WiFi-Direct, RTU, TP, etc.
Additionally, to that the gateway can connect to most of internet meteorological weather databases in order to complement the on-site weather stations. More importantly, it facilitates the forecast acting as predictive measures in a building making it an EXPERT SYSTEM.
