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Country of origin: Hungary

Summary

A Hungarian research centre intending to submit a proposal to the FP7 "Research for SME Associations" (FP7-SME-2010) is inviting partners to develop a complete power management system for municipalities. The objective of the project is to develop an innovative and comprehensive solution that is able to optimise energy consumption and significantly reduce expenses in public buildings. Manufacturers/distributors of energy automation systems with wireless technology expertise are awaited.

Full description

Buildings are major consumers of energy worldwide. In the EU 40% of the final energy consumption is attributed to buildings, out of which 95% is used in structures built before 1980. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the EC Action Plan for Energy Efficiency identifies energy efficiency in the building sector as top priority. The solution is a reasonable-price, intelligent power management system which is able to make decisions what actions should be made, to reduce the losses, to balance the load-peaks in the energy system and to save as much energy as possible through intervention using the system peripherals.

The system to be developed by the proposed project responding to the FP7 "Research for SME Associations" (FP7-SME-2010) call will comprise all the relevant power consuming devices (heat exchangers, lamps, electric devices, climate controls, ventilators, taps), as well as the energy supply points (generators, boilers, electric grid connection point) that will be equipped with small and cheap wireless data collectors: power meters, heat-flow meters, thermometers etc. The central supervision system collects the useful data from all the measuring nodes and stores them in a database. Users behaviors as well as the external (e.g. weather) conditions are also continuously observed.

Based on the collected data and the revealed consuming and climate-related patterns the POWERMAN system is able to make decisions what actions should be made, to reduce the losses, to balance the load-peaks in the energy system and to save as much energy as possible through intervention using the system peripherals. Artificial intelligence will be invoked to implement the reasoning and decision algorithms.

The artificial intelligence-based reasoning and decision algorithms will process and evaluate all the data, taking into consideration calculated and stored consuming patterns, users behaviors, weather conditions etc. and will propose solutions to maintain an optimal energy-flow in the facilities. The interventions will take place through electronically operated valves to open or close sections of heating system, to open/close taps, to turn on/off lamps, to turn on/off night tariff devices, turn-on/off specific local (renewable or non-renewable) energy sources etc.

Technical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:
The proposal has been prepared and submitted to the previous "Research for the benefit of SME Associations" call in 2009, where it received a very promising evaluation.

The original consortium has not been changed but in addition the consortium wants to include one or two SME partners with expertise in wireless technology and/or building automations systems.

Call title: "Research for the benefit of SME Associations"
Call identifier: FP7-SME-2010
Probable publication: 2010 July

Partner expertise sought:

- Type of partner sought:
SME.

- Specific area of activity of the partner:
1) Manufacturer/distributor of energy automation systems with wireless technology expertise.
2) Distributor of building automations systems.

- Tasks to be performed by the partner sought:
1) Provide technical consultation/assessment.
2) Help the dissemination and exploitation of project results.
3) Assist field testing.

Listed under: Electronics \ Information Processing & Systems \ Energy Topics \ Food and Drink \ Measurement, Testing & Standards

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Key dates Profile created on: 05 May 2010 Closing date: 31 December 2010

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