TOPAs European Consortium for buildings energy consumption management accomplishes first pilot site installation
September 12 2016 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Lead by Motorola Solutions, the TOPAs project successfully
connected the pilot buildings at Cork Institute of Technology with
an early prototype of the project’s platform
- Launched in November 2015, the TOPAs
Project is developing a set of analytic tools aimed at minimising
the gap between predicted and actual energy consumption in blocks
of buildings
- The project targets reducing that gap
to 10% and contributing to reduced energy consumption in the pilot
regions by 20%
- The project outcomes will be tested and
validated in three representative sites of commercial and public
buildings in Ireland and France
The TOPAs International consortium of academic and industrial
partners, led by Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), has recently
completed connecting the first pilot buildings in a project aimed
at reducing energy consumption. The buildings, at the Cork
Institute of Technology, were connected with an early prototype of
the TOPAs project (Tools for Continuous Building Performance
Auditing) cloud-based analytic platform. Launched in November 2015,
TOPAs consortium is building a set of analytic tools for continuous
performance auditing of energy consumption in office buildings,
aiming to reduce the gap between predicted and actual energy
consumption.
“Successfully connecting the buildings at the Cork Institute of
Technology proves the feasibility of our architectural approach.
This is an important milestone for the TOPAs consortium on the path
towards full platform validation, which begins during next year”,
said Boris Kantsepolsky, business development manager,
Motorola Solutions Israel and TOPAs project coordinator. “We
are confident that our fruitful collaboration will facilitate us in
achieving the ambitious Project goals - leveraging the potential of
energy efficiency solutions for new businesses, taking another big
step towards a more sustainable world.”
According to reports from World Energy Outlook, buildings in the
western world are accountable for approximately 40 percent of total
energy consumption. This in turn contributes 30 percent to the
world’s total CO2 emissions. Extensive evidence shows that
buildings usually do not perform as well as predicted. The
cloud-based Tools for Continuous Building Performance Auditing
(TOPAs) project will provide better visibility on how
energy-related decisions impact management, cost, air quality and
comfort of buildings’ occupants.
The TOPAs international consortium brings together
multidisciplinary and complementary partners from academia, small
to medium enterprise and industry. Led by Motorola Solutions
Israel, the TOPAs consortium consists of the Cork Institute of
Technology, The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy
Commission (CEA), Azimut Monitoring, Energy Solutions, Fraunhofer
Institute for Solar Energy Systems, IBM Research Ireland, Technical
University Dresden and EMBIX. The project has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
under grant agreement No 676760.
For further information please visit: www.topas-eeb.eu
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