EVELIXIA

The project envisions to realize Buildings as Active Utility Nodes (BAUNs) through elaboration of an all-encompassing BAUN Framework which:
i) Coordinates building infrastructure (i.e., massive concrete inertia, energy generation assets, storage systems, energy supply points, interconnection with grids), smart devices, and energy management systems so that their inter-dependencies become visible as financial opportunity.
ii) Develops a Services Marketplace, where stakeholders can construct, access, and exploit novel services and relevant business models including ones that: activate building load shifting and shedding, trade energy between peers in a decentralized manner, dispatch distributed assets such as electrical or thermal storage, identify and validate energy origin. This creates added value for all energy system stakeholders for: less grid congestions and loss-of-load probability, improved grid quality, reduced energy costs through more accurate, close-to-real time energy matching, higher potential for RES penetration, synergies exploitation between multiple energy networks, carbon-free certificates reproduction.
iii) Factors in, IAQ comfort of building users to propose solutions that are non-pervasive, user-friendly and user engaging. The EVELIXIA Stakeholders Interaction Platform (SIP), incorporating the Live Digital Building Logbook and Visual Analytics Engine, targets to alleviate such concerns and establish a harmonic building-to-human interface. EVELIXIA further empowers users’ ownership of data, assets and services, respecting their privacy and security when utilizing their energy data; this is accomplished through the design of a Blockchain Infrastructure, ensuring fair distribution of (monetary or non-monetary) benefits within the energy community.