Building Hope

Building Holistic Optimization of Prosumed Energy

The Building HOPE project led by DST SOLAR, will develop a tool to redefine buildings energy management practices in the context of smart urban environments. The HOPE platform will be tested in relevant contexts: industrial, office and retail buildings, demonstrating the novelty of its features and its impact in the energy management, in order to become a unique energy management platform for buildings in the next decade.

Keywords: AI . ML . Electric Systems . Energy efficiency of buildings

Leading company in Portugal
DST SOLAR

Project Start Date
01/07/2020

Project End Date
30/06/2023

Building Hope, using AI towards a cleaner energy future

Building HOPE project proposes to develop and validate a tool for Holistic Optimization of Prosumed Energy (HOPE) of buildings. The high-level objective of this project is to leverage data collection and sensing advancements and develop AI based methodologies to facilitate transition towards a cleaner energy future.

What to expect

The HOPE platform will be tested in relevant contexts, namely industrial, office and retail buildings, demonstrating the novelty of its features and its impact in the energy management, in order to become a unique energy management platform for buildings in the next decade.

Meet the partners

Promoter: DST SOLAR, S.A. – Ana Luísa Pereira

Industrial Co-Promoter:
WATT-IS, S.A. – Miguel Carvalho
InnovationPoint, S.A. – Ricardo Lopes

Academic Co-promoters:
Instituto Superior Técnico – Carlos Silva
Universidade de Coimbra – Manuel Gameiro

CMU Department:
Electrical Engineering Department – Soummya Kar

Goals

This project’s resulting technology will add new dimensions to Energy management concept and extend the capabilities of state-of-the-art Energy Management Systems by:

1. characterizing in detail energy services consumption;
2. perform asset management;
3. optimizing the operation across multiple energy systems (generation, storage and service demand) and
multiple buildings;
4. aiding building owners with contracts management.