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FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Smart Building Hub (SBHUB) - Norwegian e-Infrastructure for energy-flexible and healthy buildings

Alternative title: Smart Building Hub (SBHUB) - Norsk e-infrastruktur for energifleksible og sunne bygninger.

Awarded: NOK 27.2 mill.

Smart Building Hub is an e-infrastructure that enables detailed data from buildings to become publicly available for research and development. To merge the gap between R&D on energy efficient & flexible buildings and R&D on Smart Grids, Smart Building Hub will have well organized and interlinked databases consisting of detailed measurements with hourly or sub-hourly time resolution of electricity consumption, heat consumption, onsite energy generation and indoor climate parameters. Currently, there is no infrastructure in Norway giving access to researchers and solution developers for deep insight into the energy and indoor climate in buildings. The data acquisition infrastructure consists of both hardware and software equipment for sub-metering to investigate detailed indoor climate and energy consumption of buildings. The data will be organized per building category, and geographical location. In Norway, extensive physical infrastructures that have already been established will provide data to the Smart Building Hub. These include both previous and ongoing Research Centres for Environment-Friendly energy (FME), FME ZEB (Zero Emission Buildings), ZEN (Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities), CINELDI (Centre for Intelligent Electricity Distribution) as well as the Centre for Research-Driven Innovation SFI Klima 2050. Further, the ZEB Laboratory is a full-scale commercial building for exploring individual components and materials in practical use that will be completed in 2020. Smart Building Hub (SBHub) will have an important impact on the development of smart cities and zero emission cities by providing possibilities for cross disciplinary analysis, research and innovation. SBHub's detailed measurements database will facilitate quantitative and qualitative analysis within a range of research issues, as well as enable new energy services in the building and energy sectors.

Smart Building Hub will contribute to merging the gap between R&D on energy efficient & flexible buildings and R&D on Smart Grids. To achieve this, it is crucial to have well organized and interlinked databases consisting of detailed measurements (sub-metering beyond the main meter) with high time resolution (hourly data and even minute data in some cases) of electricity consumption, heat consumption, onsite energy generation and indoor climate parameters. Currently, there is no infrastructure in Norway giving access to researchers and solution developers for deep insight into the energy and indoor climate in buildings. The data acquisition infrastructure consists of both hardware and software equipment for sub-metering to investigate detailed indoor climate and energy consumption of buildings. The data will be organized per building category, e.g. small house, apartment block, office, school, hotel, and geographical location. The business model for Smart Building Hub consists of two levels of access for external users: free access, with summarized annual values, and paid access, containing high resolution values and correlations between variables. Within the research topic of energy use in buildings, an extensive physical infrastructure has been established in previous and ongoing Research Centres for Environment-Friendly energy, FME ZEB (Zero Emission Buildings), ZEN (Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities), CINELDI (Centre for Intelligent Electricity Distribution) as well as the Centre for Research-Driven Innovation SFI Klima 2050 (Risk reduction through climate adaptation of buildings and infrastructure). Amongst them, the ZEB Laboratory is a full-scale commercial building for exploring individual components and materials in practical use that was completed in 2020. All these physical labs will be an important part of the Smart Building Hub.

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