RE-COGNITION

The goal of the RE-COGNITION project is the development of a Buildings’ Integration Framework for Renewable Energy Technologies, with a focus on small/ medium-sized residential and commercial buildings in Europe. An ICT platform for long-term and on-the-fly optimal decision making will be developed, for efficiently utilizing RETs and their pairing with appropriate storage technologies and innovative energy conversion systems to meet the electricity and heating/cooling demand of the buildings. The framework is designed to enable the integration of multiple, heterogeneous, energy generating systems covering the spectrum of available building-scale RES (such as PV/ solar-thermal/ cooling, wind, biogas-based micro-CHP, geothermal) and demonstrating future-proof extensibility. To this end, the project also entails R&D at the level of single technologies and their interconnection with novel energy conversion systems. For 36 months, 15 partners from 7 EU countries will provide technology know-how, lab facilities & 5 validation sites and will work towards meeting EU’s expectations for reduced dependence on fossil fuels and cost effectiveness compared to conventional energy generation and management solutions in buildings.

Within RE-COGNITION, ITI is responsible for the quality assurance and risk management of the project. It also leads the activities related to the Architecture definition and the design and development of the ICT integration platform. Starting from the definition of the system specification, CERTH will coordinate the activities about the definition of Common Information Model, the development of the Automated Cognitive Energy Management Engine (ACEME) and the development of the Visual Analytics Dashboard. Finally, it coordinates the activities for the deployment and testing of a small-scale RE-COGNITION framework in pre-pilot site (ITI-Smart Home).

Consortium

• POLITECNICO DI TORINO [POLITO], Italy

• ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS [ITI], Greece

• ENERGY@WORK SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA A R.L. [E@W], Italy

• INTRACOM SA DEFENSE ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS [IDE], Greece

• ZH SRL [ZH], Italy

• ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE [EPFL], Switzerland

• CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D’ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA – RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT [CSEM], Switzerland

• Windcity srl [WindCity], Italy

• MICRO TURBINE TECHNOLOGY BV [MTT], Netherlands

• ELLINIKA PETRELAIA AE [HELPE], Greece

• SERVELECT SRL [SVT], Romania

• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL [UoB], United Kingdom

• ELECTRIC CORBY COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY [EC CIC], United Kingdom

• ETREL SVETOVANJE IN DRUGE STORITVE DOO [Etrel.], Slovenia

• UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-NAPOCA [TUCN], Romania