The Project
As part of a "Smart Buildings Challenge" carried out with the technology group Bosch and partners Microsoft, TÜV Süd and Deka Immobilien, ECE will implement a total of four innovative solutions for smart buildings with selected tech start-ups and test them in practice by the beginning of 2021.
The four start-ups were selected from a total of 26 participants in the Smart Buildings Challenge and presented in February 2020 in Berlin at Bosch Connected World, one of the leading conferences on digital transformation and the Internet of Things, as the winners of the challenge launched last summer.
In close cooperation with the operational ECE project teams, the winners are now in the next step of implementing the concepts in the Ettlinger Tor shopping center in Karlsruhe, which is operated by ECE, and subjecting them to a practical test.
Project leadership of "ECE NEXT"
In order to successfully implement the project, the "ECE NEXT" digital unit, where the Project Manager is operationally based, is working closely with all stakeholders involved. This includes not only the challenge partners and profit-making companies, but also the internal ECE units in particular, which play a key role in the success of the overall project. The local center management, corporate IT and facility management, for example, are also significantly involved.
Four innovative solutions for smart buildings
Smart Space Flow Analytics
The Spanish start-up Cubelizer will use an artificial intelligence (AI)-based sensor network to measure the routes taken by customers in the mall, taking into account data protection requirements, map them in real time and process them for analysis.
Smart Automated Building
With the "Smart Automated Building" approach from "Thing Technologies", the heating, cooling and ventilation technology is to be controlled and analyzed on the basis of the two other installed tools, and measures to increase efficiency are to be proposed.
Smart metering system
The start-up "Aedifion", which was founded in 2018, develops solutions for the cloud-based operation and optimization of building automation systems and will install a "smart metering system" at Ettlinger Tor for the automated reading, analysis and optimization of energy consumption.
Smart Building Cockpit
Finally, a project team from "Holisticon" will set up a "Smart Building Cockpit", a central dashboard for the building data, which will present the collected information visually and in a target and user group-oriented manner, thus creating the basis for comprehensive analyses of energy consumption.
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