Previous Events
Kick-off lunch lecture Smart Energy Efficiency Platform 13 February 2018
“Advanced Methods in Building Diagnostics and Control: a Systems and Control Perspective”
By dr. ir. Simone Baldi - TU Delft DCSC
Buildings consume more than 42% of the energy in Europe. Estimates say that efficient building automation systems can reduce their energy consumption of up to 30%. In order to sustainably achieve this goal, "intelligent" algorithms for monitoring and control of the building automation system are compelling. This talk will show how a systems and control perspective can lead to advanced methods for building diagnostics and control, powered by intelligent adaptive and reconfigurable algorithms. Part of the presented work has been funded by the FP7 EU project AMBI (http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/106312_en.html), a research project on which TU Delft worked in cooperation with Honeywell, University of Oxford and University of Dresden.
ClimateKIC Climathon Delft: Smart Energy Efficiency Challenges
On the 27th and 28th of October 2017, the first Climate-KIC Climathon was organised in the GreenVillage in Delft. In this 24-hour climate challenge participants are asked to generate ideas to solve pressing energy efficiency related issues in an urban environment. Climathon is an annual global climate change hackathon which takes place simultaneously in major cities around the world. The Smart Energy Efficiency Platform has been the content partner for the first Climathon in Delft.
During the 24-hours of the Climathon, the multi-disciplinary teams, consisting of 40 students and professionals from fields such as architecture, business administration, software engineering, process technology, energy technology and urban development, tackled two challenges related to Smart Energy Efficiency:
Challenge 1: Future Buildings - Design the TU Delft Aula of the future to cope with the pressing energy demand challenges and climate change
Challenge 2: Social Energy - How can people be steered towards eco-friendly/energy efficient behaviour with the use of social media, like they are steered towards certain commercial products
The teams were coached by Climate-CIK coaches, PhD students and staff from SEEP partner TOON in interactive sessions towards the prototype presentation of their solution. Finally, the teams presented their solution in a 5-minute pitch to a jury with Dr. Kirsten Dunlop, Climate-KIC CEO, as chair of the jury.
The winning team came up with a set of solutions related to dynamic heating and ventilation using mobile units and innovative vents. These solutions form a nice package of multiple solutions, in line with the philosophy to improve energy efficiency in buildings with unique characteristics, such as iconic buildings and multi-functional buildings, in a low-barrier and non-intrusive manner. All with all, the Climathon has been a fruitful learning experience for the participants from all over the Netherlands and has opened their eyes for which steps in the reduction of energy use can be made in the built environment.
The event magazine, with both visual and textual reports on the event, released by the Climate-KIC can be accessed through: https://climate-kic.h5mag.com/climathon/climathon_cover
Student Visit to TOON
On 7th December, the Energy Club visited TOON, formerly known as Quby, with 10 students. The students visited the TOON installation in Amsterdam, where they saw a demonstration of their setup with a Tesla Powerwall. The students also had a long discussion with the scientists at TOON regarding the potential applications for their product.
TOON is an established partner of the Smart Energy Efficiency platform. Beside participating and assisting in several activities of the platform, such as the Delft Climathon, TOON accommodates students for master thesis projects.
