Presentation given on the EU VERYSchool project at the SmarTABCD’15, Workshop on Smart Technologies and Applications on Buildings, Cities and Districts. The workshop was organized in parallel to the 1th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 15) organized in Bayonne from the 14th to the 17th of September, and focused on results generated by recent European initiatives for the development of innovative smart technologies for buildings and districts efficiency. Building energy consumption is strongly dependent on the functionality of the building, the occupancy behavior, the outdoor environment, the structure and building materials, and the operation management. Nowadays and to optimize energy consumption, buildings are using automation systems with equipment, metering systems, smart devices and IoT (Internet of Things) applications to optimize their usage. Today’s automation systems produce tremendous amounts of data. This data can be very hard to organize and use across different applications because it is stored in many different formats; has inconsistent naming conventions and very limited data descriptors. In essence it lacks information to describe the meaning of the data. And without meaning a time–consuming manual effort is required before value creation can begin.

1. SmarTABCD’15 Workshop
Smart Technologies
and Applications on Buildings,
Cities and Districts
Bayonne Château-Neuf - France
International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence Application and Innovations (AIAI’15)
Mike Brogan, CEO & Co-Founder
VERYSchool
Valuable Energy for a Smarter School

2. QSET
software
Energy
consultants
large MNC’s
(IS 393 software)
Members
EN/ISO
50001
committees
First installs:
buildings &
industry
EN 16001
software
deployed
Enerit ISO
50001
software
launched
20 years in
Management System Software
ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001
1995 2004 2006 2008 2010 2011
Enerit
Founded

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The VERYSchool Project
Project Title: Valuable EneRgY for a smart School - Project Acronym: VERYSchool
Project start: December 2011 - Project duration: 36 months (November 2014)
Project Cost: € 2.860.000 - EC Funding: up to € 1.430.000 (50% of eligible costs)

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VERYSchool Project at glance

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VERYSchool Project at glance
VERYSchool is a result-oriented project with an Energy Action Navigator (VSNavigator)
focusing on Energy Management, at the core of its development.
VSNavigator is a decision-making tool, customized for Schools, developed using mature
hardware and software technologies, with the main objective to drive:
 the whole chain of Stakeholders in the definition of an Energy Management Program
according to ISO 50001 International Standard;
 users in the execution of an effective Energy Management System.

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ISO 50001 Energy Management System (EnMS)
Plan – Do Check - Act

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The VERYSchool Pilots

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The BEMS installations in the Pilots
Temperature Sensor
Presence Sensor
Luxmeter
LED Lighting 60W
ON/OFF Valve

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ExperimentalData
Energy
Action Management
System
VSNavigator
Virtual Environment
Simulations
The overall architecture of VSNavigator

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VSNavigator:
Individual School model
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VSNavigator:
School District model
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VSNavigator: Monitoring and High Quality Data Set
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Review 
VERYSchool
Optimization Scenario
Playbook
VSNavigator: Energy Performances and Optimization Scenarios

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VSNavigator: Energy Performances and Optimization Scenarios
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VSNavigator: Energy Performances and Optimization Scenarios
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IES Simulation Engine embedded into VSN
Lesa
Genoa
Lisbon
Plovdiv

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VSNavigator: Optimisation Scenarios and Action Management
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Impact Factor Band Score
[TS] Total
Estimated
Savings
TS < €10,000 1
€10,000 < TS < €25,000 2
€25,000 < TS < €100,000 3
€100,000 < TS 4
[PB] Payback
Period
PB < 2 Years 4
2 Years < PB < 5 Years 3
5 Years < PB < 10 Years 2
10 Years < PB 1
[TF] Timeframe
TF < 1 Years 4
1 Years < TF < 5 Years 3
5 Years < TF < 10 Years 2
10 Years < TF 1
[GHG] GHG
Scope 1 and 2
emissions
reduction
Zero: There is NO reduction of S1/S2 scope emissions 1
Low: Reduction of S1/S2 scope emissions is relatively low 2
Medium: There is a significant reduction of S1/S2 scope emissions 3
High: There is a high reductions of S1/S2 scope emissions 4
[NR] Impact on
Natural
Resources
Adverse impact to natural resources 1
No impact on natural resources 2
Positive impact on natural resources 3
[SS] Impact on
Social
Sustainability
Adverse impact to social sustainability 1
No impact on social sustainability 2
Positive impact on social sustainability 3
Prioritisation  ISO 50001 & Improvement Opportunities
• identified
• prioritized
• recorded
 Facilitating decision making
 Encouraging adoption of IOs
 Mitigating risk and uncertainty

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Results
 The entire Energy Management Programme established in each pilot school has been
validated in compliance with the ISO 50001 during one year of experimental activities.
 A methodology for the application of IPMVP in school buildings has been developed,
with examples on how to calculate energy savings and comfort conditions.
 The energy performances assessment, and the achieved energy savings in the project,
was performed with both:
– energy indicators calculated for the current year over the previous one, using measured versus
and billed data;
– the eeMeasure software, that is provided by the European Commission as a tool to calculate
energy savings with a standard methodology.
 Using the Optimization Scenarios appropriate to each pilot school, a Green Design has
been performed as best practices to show how the selected pilot schools can be
transformed into Near-Zero Energy Building.
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VERYSchool: Green Digital Charter Award 2013
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Conclusions
 VSNavigator has been developed with the contribution of European funds as CIP-ICT-
PSP project.
 VSNavigator is a replicable model. Any reference to the school building, or school
organization, automatically extends to the general concept of "building" or
"organization".
 VSNavigator functionalities, and energy performance resulting from the VERYSchool
project methodology have been demonstrated and validated in four European school
pilots.
 A demo version of VSNavigator is available from the project website for any e-Learning
user and to support the commercial activities that the Consortium purses by selling to
Customers the rights of the software.
 The Catalogue of the Optimization Scenarios, which support the decision-making
process of VSNavigator has been published as e-Book and it is free downloadable
from the project website.
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VSNavigator
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