Using operational data effectively for energy optimization instead of continuing to discuss decarbonization strategies. aedifion and Alpha IC at the gefma Lounge Bayern-Nürnberg
The gefma Lounge Bayern-Nürnberg kicked off the 2023 event year with a webinar on energy optimization. The speakers, Marc Baranski, Head of Engineering and Research at aedifion GmbH, and Matthias Domke, Partner and energy optimization expert at Alpha IC GmbH, presented a decarbonization roadmap for simple and fast operational and energy optimization in existing buildings in dialogue with each other.
For this purpose, aedifion GmbH, a PropTech company in Cologne spun off from RWTH Aachen University in 2017, provides an AI-based and manufacturer-independent cloud platform. Marc Baranski presented the cloud solution, which functions as a link between smart metering, TGA and ESG reporting, in live operation. The associated edge device, which is connected to the respective building in a plug-and-play process, delivers the data to the platform.
Participants at the gefma Lounge agreed that the data situation in approximately two-thirds of the building stock will not be optimal enough for the software to be immediately usable. According to Marc Baranski, however, this is not an obstacle to tackling energy optimization, since retrofitting for data collection is easily possible without wiring and is energy self-sufficient: "If the data situation is good, however, we can propose optimization measures in a first step within just a few weeks, based on eliminating errors in the building operation. In one example, it was fixed valves. Even without investment measures, we achieve up to 40 percent annual energy savings, savings in operating costs and avoidance of CO2 emissions." The next step in the work with aedifion is optimization measures for demand-driven operation. Here, in addition to consumption data, room occupancy apps are included, for example. In the final step, individually derived investment measures are proposed. The AI used helps to clarify questions via simulations, for example, whether the use of a heat pump is sensible and possible or whether an additional photovoltaic system is required on the roof.
For Matthias Domke, the challenge of the hour is to accelerate operational optimization at the property level with a view to achieving climate targets: "A tool like aedifion naturally also provides asset management with the data for ESG reporting at the overall portfolio level. But the crucial thing is that if the data is good, we can immediately define the specific properties in a portfolio whose operations can be optimized most profitably. We need to leverage this treasure trove of data by harnessing existing operational data for the purpose of CO2 reduction and energy optimization."
Lounge leader Sebastian Hölzlein, managing partner of Alpha IC, repeatedly focused the discussion on the opportunity for operational facility management to use this lever: "How do we get these easily implementable operational and energy optimizations into the field, from which not only the climate but all stakeholders from asset management to users and tenants benefit?" Here, Matthias Domke and Marc Baranski immediately agreed that, in addition to a dynamizing intrinsic motivation of the stakeholders, there must above all also be results-oriented rather than performance-based tenders in order to push energy optimization projects forward.
Do you have any questions on this topic? Then please feel free to contact our partner, Matthias Domke, at: m.domke@alpha-ic.com oder 0151- 422 204 24.
If you were not able to attend the event but would like to have the presentation or would like to receive invitations to the next gefma Lounges, please write to: marketing@alpha-ic.com
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