Data-Driven Smart Buildings
DDSB
The building is a research and development building of Infineon Technologies Austria AG, world-leading provider of semiconductor solutions. It is a new building completed in 2020 with a total building area of 20,000 m2 on 5 levels. It includes office areas and meeting rooms for around 600 employees as well as 5500 m² of laboratory space.
The primary purpose of this intervention was to test a building tracking system based on the IDA ICE simulation software. This building tracking system (currently under development) is planned to run a digital twin of a building and its services in real time. Within the EU Project Arrowhead Tools, the building tracking system was developed and tested in the laboratory. The selected parts of the Infineon building are used to demonstrate the system in an existing setting.
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The goal of the project is to realize a real-time digital twin and continuously calibrate it during operation to reflect the actual state of the building. With this information, the energy consumption of the building services should be reduced and user comfort enhanced. Within the EU project Arrowhead Tools, the building and system simulation tool IDA ICE was extended to include real-time operation and coupling of the simulation program with real-time sensor data from the building, such as weather data, status of shading, windows and doors.
The first development and implementation step which was completed within the Arrowhead Tools project was the implementation of the real-time digital twin and an approach to force the model into the state of the real building (building tracking) in selected areas of the building (summer 2022). The second step which is not finished yet and subject to further projects is to generate optimized control settings and implement it in the building.
