About URB-Grade project

The URB-Grade project designs, develops and validates a Platform for Decision Support that will allow the city authorities and utilities to promote and choose the correct actions to upgrade a district to become more energy efficient, cost effective and to increase comfort for its citizens in a District as a Service Platform (DaaS Platform) approach.

The DaaS Platform will identify the largest improvement potential for a district based on energy costs, development potential and comfort improvements for citizens.

The main users of the platform are city authorities. It is envisioned that the platform will become a major tool for city planning and decision making for a city. Other stakeholders include the utility companies and energy consumers in general. The information necessary for the platform will be based on collecting data from heterogeneous distributed sensors (e.g. smart meters) and other open data sources (e.g. energy grade of buildings) or survey based data. Data is processed using complex event processing (CEP) techniques to generate relevant information for the DaaS platform. Information will be made available over a common cloud based service platform and jointly form the DaaS platform.

The DaaS platform will enable city authorities to operate the District as a Service; meaning that cities can increasingly be operated by decisions supported with real-time data in addition to more traditional government collected data sets from for surveys and statistical data sets. This will increase the cost effectiveness of decisions as well as the ability to take better account of citizens’ wishes and needs.

Partners:

TUT, Department of Production Engineering
Aleksandra Instituttet A/S
Fundacion Tekniker
Telvent Global Services SA
Ayuntamiento de Eibar
THT Control Oy
Seas-NVE Holding AS
Fenie Energia SA
Kalundborg Kommune