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Buildings are responsible for about 40% of the energy consumed in Europe and up to 75% of the EU’s building stock is considered inefficient. And to efficiently power indoor spaces, there’s a need for solutions that reduce energy consumption. The EU-funded Auto-DAN project, coordinated by IES, brought together a consortium of 12 partners across 4 countries to explore how smart monitoring and analytics – including iSCAN – can support homes and small businesses by assessing in-use performance (including appliances and occupant behaviour) and pointing to opportunities to reduce consumption.
What is Auto-DAN?
The energy performance of buildings generally does not include consumption from appliances and devices that are not part of technical building systems, for example heating and ventilation. Auto-DAN set out to address this gap. By using a range of software and augmented intelligence, the project developed methods to assess in-use energy performance that also consider the quality of appliances/systems installed, user operational habits and the smart readiness of the structure. This type of insight can help users make more informed choices in terms of investment, usage and maintenance.
The Auto-DAN Project
The project set out to deliver a way to evaluate the actual energy performance of buildings and provide building users with the awareness to proactively optimise their energy use. Auto-DAN focused on:
IES contributed to Auto-DAN by applying iSCAN to bring together monitored building data and turn it into performance insights that can be surfaced through dashboards.
iSCAN can also support:
Auto-DAN delivered flexible hardware specifications and component designs to support deployment across different small-building contexts, alongside a unified data management approach with interoperability achieved between iSCAN and SenseIoTy. The project also developed and user-tested UX dashboards and integrated a KPI-based live self-energy assessment method into the dashboard. In parallel, Auto-DAN explored business models and market opportunities for flexibility and demand response, informed by surveys and industry engagement.
Our collaboration with Auto-DAN was recently featured in CORDIS Results in Brief, so if you’d like to discover more about the project, you can read the full article here.
This project is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101000169.
