An ICT platform for building analytics

Significant research effort is underway towards designing intelligent BEMS, adapted to the properties of each building at hand and to the microclimatic conditions of the building location, complemented by a collection of assessment services. On the other hand, the adoption of such solutions by the market is still hampered by the necessity of engineering experts to take over system installation on buildings. Thus, optimizing the energetic performance of buildings is not only about defining intelligent services, but also providing an ICT platform able to host and manage a collection of such analytics. In the proposed approach, such a platform is developed to facilitate the provision of building analytics services. Open source technologies and service-oriented architectures establish the openness, transparency and interoperability characteristics of the platform, while development of generic analytics allows applicability to a large portion of the existing buildings stock i n Europe and world-wide.