Título del proyecto: eDIANA, Embedded Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings

Desde: 2009  hasta: 2011

Área: Ingenieria del SW

Tema:

Investigadores participantes: Roberto Uribeetxeberria, Goiuria SAgardui, Leire Etxeberria

Entidades participantes: ACCIONA (and other 21)

Entidad financiadora: ARTEMISIA

Publicaciones relacionadas: -

Abstract:

eDIANA (Embedded Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings) addresses the need of achieving
energy efficiency in buildings through innovative solutions based on embedded systems. The main
goal of eDIANA, in line with SP7, is to enable sustainable urban life through rationalisation in the
use of resources while increasing comfort in urban environments by means of embedded
intelligence and integration technologies. The eDIANA approach is to achieve greater efficiency in
use of resources, prioritising energy as scarce resource, more flexibility in the provision of
resources and better situation awareness for the citizen and for service and infrastructure owners.
This will be achieved through the deployment and inter-operation of embedded systems throughout
the eDIANA environment of buildings and intra-building units. eDIANA’s main outcome of
application is in fact the improved energy efficiency in residential and nonresidential buildings, first
priority for SP7.

eDIANA is a strong application-oriented initiative which is focus on the conceptualisation,
design, development, demonstration and validation of the eDIANA Platform, which will integrate
intelligent embedded devices, installed in residential and non residential buildings to improve
energy efficiency and optimise overall energy consumption, production and storage. This project is
part of an ambitious industrial research and development approach where Cells (living/working
units), being part of macro-Cells (residential and non-residential buildings), will be connected to
others in a more complex network at a district or urban area, not only as energy consumer but also
producer. Both Cells and macro-Cells will rely on embedded technologies (devices, sensors,
control software, integration middleware, protocols, design methods and tools, reference
architectures, system modeling etc) to deliver the energy management functions required to fulfil
the objectives of the eDIANA project.

eDIANA, as part of the ARTEMIS JTI on Embedded Computing Systems, will address the design,
development and deployment of ubiquitous, interoperable and cost-effective, dependable, safe and
secure electronics and software systems for the domain of energy efficiency in buildings.

eDIANA reference design and architectures will be evaluated through intensive demonstration
activities first at a pre-industrial phase, validating the technical integration of the various modules
developed as different parts of the project. and secondly, at a real-scale demonstration in four
different pilots across Europe, including residential and non-residential scenarios.