“Energy efficiency” is often used in discussions around combating climate change and global warming. It has become an essential part of political agendas all over the world. Simply put, “energy efficiency” means using less energy for the same job. Every year, much of our energy consumption (through products, homes, buildings, etc.) is wasted due to inefficiencies in current technologies, transmission, and heat loss. This increases energy costs for all consumers and leads to increased carbon pollution.
Energy efficiency is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to combat climate change, achieve a more sustainable and secure energy supply, reduce pollution (carbon/greenhouse gas emissions), and cut our energy bills. Efforts to develop and deploy energy-efficient solutions for buildings have significantly increased in the past couple of years.
Nevertheless, almost 40% of the current building stock in Europe is not built according to any energy efficiency plan. To reach 2050 climate goals, an intelligent and “deep” renovation of residential buildings is required, enabling considerable energy and CO2 emission reductions.
Avineon and Tensing participate in a research consortium (DITUR or Digital Twins for Upscaled Retrofits) that explores the potential of advanced data analytics to support the renovation challenge of the existing residential building stock by focusing on the digital twin concept.
Avineon acts as a partner for 3D modelling, and Tensing takes on the role of developing the digital twin infrastructure and data integration processes. Of course, we used a lot of FME for this.
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- combat climate change
- achieve a more sustainable and secure energy supply
- reduce pollution
- cut our energy bills
We believe, energy efficiency is the
easiest and most cost effective way to
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What is DITUR?
DIgital Twins for Upscaled Retrofits.
● Belgian consortium
● Research institutes
● Universities
● Industry partners
● Data driven methodologies for upscaling and
accelerating building renovations
● Avineon: 3D modeling
● Tensing: Infrastructure and data integration
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Platform capabilities
∙ 3D data exchange compliant to CityGML standard
+ Energy Application Domain Extension
∙ Connection to building energy modelling tools &
energy consumption databases (smart meters)
∙ Registry of data updates by end users
∙ Multi-tenant infrastructure enabling user-specific
and GDPR-compliant data access and visualisation
(data-marts)
∙ Publication of building properties and scenarios in
3D building viewer, and as summary graphs and
reports for individual buildings, or aggregated by
street segment, census or neighborhood area
∙ Partner development of additional web-based app
functionality connecting to the data power of the
Digital Twin.
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Why DITUR?
• Engage with citizens
• Simulation of
• renovation strategies
• Solar panel potential
• Climate action plans
• Data for asset
management
• Support decisionmaking
• Increase renovation rate
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How - Craft the 3D modeling
BGT
DTM
• Largescale map
• Lidar / DTM / DSM
• Stereo imaging
• LOD 2.3 models
• CityGML
• Textured
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Link 3D models
• 3DcityDB – LOD2.3 / 3.0
• Energy Application Domain Extension
• EnergyVille Energy Calculation Service
• Additional data from multiple sources
(e.g. year of build)
Source for calculating
• options to save energy
• associated costs
• anticipated decrease in energy
consumption.
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How to present FME awesomeness??
Bite the bullet and present
‘the other side’ of the project
in detail
Give highlights of FME usage
Have Lizard and Zippster
pop up randomly during
presentation
Show how the project would
have looked without FME
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Thermal opening with FME
https://hub.safe.com/publishers/ellipso-facto-official/transformers/rasterhsvconverter
Convert Wall-bitmaps to HSV. Almost no ML needed
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Unexpected FME benifits
Make REST-version of some java tooling for CityGB
• 3DcityDB commandline import/export tooling
• We needed that as a service
• C# developer … eh… have to dive into that
• FME Server + Workspace with SystemCaller
• Write post-body
• Run ‘java -jar $(lib)/impexp-client-4.2.3 ………’
• Read result
• Write to streaming..