We collaborate with the Horizon 2020 project Phoenix around Riksbyggen’s brf. Skellefteåhus 13 in Skellefteå. It is one of five pilot properties in the project. The others are in Greece, Spain and Ireland.
We have connected to the building management system in the building where we get access to already existing data. We have also replaced the thermostats and installed carbon dioxide sensors in 4 of the apartments in the house, and developed an app where the residents receive messages and can control their thermostats.
We have also done a preliminary study together with Skellefteå municipality where we compared energy data from a number of schools, to find strange deviations that can then be remedied to save energy.
Several of the challenges in our hackathon Arctic Challenge 2022 had to do with energy savings. Team SMPS worked on a challenge from the Phoenix project.
Team JANN took on a challenge from the SSiO project, where they used the SSiO sensor kit to get temperature data from the inside of a wall, the outside of the wall, and the outdoor temperature some distance away from the wall. In this way, they calculated the K-value for the wall, or for example a window.
Dino Team worked on a challenge from ABB. A new building for the ”Arctic Center of Energy (ACE)” will be built on Campus Skellefteå. ABB is involved in the energy management of the building, where there will also be an energy exchange with other buildings on Campus, so energy is taken from buildings that have a surplus to those that have a deficit. The challenge was to visualize the energy transfer.
