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Marketable Open Data Solutions for Optimized Building-Related Energy Services

Project description

An open marketplace to unlock building energy data

The construction sector is on the brink of a data revolution, but fragmented systems and privacy concerns hinder progress. Buildings generate vast amounts of data through monitoring and control systems, yet much of this is locked in isolated, non-compatible silos. The EU-funded MODERATE project addresses this challenge by creating an open building data marketplace where building owners, policymakers, facility managers and utility companies can share, analyse and extract value from their data. Leveraging AI, blockchain and IoT, the platform provides uniform access to heterogeneous building datasets in real time. GDPR-compliant synthetic data techniques enable privacy-preserving data sharing while retaining statistical value. By breaking down data silos, MODERATE supports smarter decision-making and opens new opportunities across the construction and energy sectors.

Objective

The ever-increasing use of building monitoring and control systems has created an opportunity for data-driven approaches in the entire construction sector. At the same time, interaction and interoperability among data platforms remain a challenging issue.
MODERATE will formalize a set of procedures and techniques that enable building owners, policymakers, facility managers, utility companies, etc., to openly share their data, gain insights, and make decisions while complying with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Moreover, MODERATE will enable uniform access to heterogeneous data sources on buildings' performance, usually dispersed in several non-interoperable data silos.

Although several projects have recently emerged to address the problem of defining a modular data architecture, they lack:
- A protocol for data sharing and anonymization, complying with the rules defined by the GDPR while avoiding losing the statistical properties that make them valuable.
- A solution enabling data owners to openly share their datasets while profiting both economically and in terms of knowledge on their data.
- A fully open platform. Commonly, most of the results (data, algorithms, software, etc.) of a project are owned by partners within the consortium, making it very difficult to use them later without their permission.

MODERATE will develop an open platform, embracing leading-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain/distributed ledger technologies, the internet of things (IoT), and many more. This platform will enable its users to analyze real-time building data from various building systems and provide insight into the many dimensions of a building's performance. The use of synthetic data generation techniques, not yet widely applied in the construction industry, is one of the elements that allow open data sharing, enabling more reliable services and generating business opportunities.

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01

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Coordinator

ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO
Net EU contribution
€ 894 500,00
Address
VIALE DRUSO 1
39100 Bolzano
Italy
Region
Nord-Est Veneto Belluno
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Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 894 500,00

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