CTC is progressing in analysing and defining possible use case scenarios linked to the European DATAWISE project. The efforts of CTC will establish the groundwork for the successful development of an innovative initiative designed to transform the management and maintenance of buildings through the integration of advanced digital solutions.

Verónica González de Lena and Desireé Ruiz, Energy Industry Manager and Technologist at CTC, respectively, reported on the progress of this task during the first ‘DATAWISE Technical Meeting’, organised by the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS) in Athens.

Besides presenting the status of each of the work packages of the project, the meeting analysed the services to be developed by the 16 members of the consortium and validated their proper implementation across the three pilot demonstrators planned for the research phase.

In this initial phase of the project, CTC is spearheading the description of the ‘Use Case Scenarios’. During the meeting, they explained the methodology for defining the roles of users, their interactions with DATAWISE services and the expected requirements, among other factors. Contributions from members throughout the session further enriched the approach. In this regard, the feedback and evaluations from the entities involved in the project are invaluable for accurately defining these use case scenarios.

The completion of this task, with a deliverable scheduled for January, will concentrate CTC’s involvement during the initial months of the project. As the research advances, the role of the Cantabrian centre will assume a more technical profile. Among its objectives, CTC will develop data extraction routines to collect relevant information from BIM models and sensors, enabling the exploitation of this data across the various services of the project. CTC will also support other members in performing predictive maintenance, fault detection, and energy forecasting tasks.

The DATAWISE project is associated with the HORIZON EUROPE programme and involves 16 members from 7 European countries. They are collaborating on an advanced solution integrating data sources into an AI-powered digital Open BIM twin. This groundbreaking proposal aims to optimise critical aspects such as building flexibility, thermal management, energy forecasting, intelligent sustainability, comfort for occupants and the preventive assessment of hazards of buildings and their life cycles.

The CTC Technology Centre, the Cantabrian company VBE-6D, the Circe Foundation and the Technical University of Valencia are the four Spanish representatives in a consortium led by the CERTH Research and Technology Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece.

This research, funded with 5 million euros, primarily focuses on integrating and utilising data related to building performance. A data-driven management toolkit (DBPM) and an AI-enhanced lifecycle data-driven decision support platform (LD2S) will be tested to achieve this.