Efficient data driven commissioning and functional analysis focused on energy and indoor climate

The data driven building is coming which gives new possibilities for a better commissioning and continuous operation of the delivered indoor climate and energy consumption. 

The project is aimed at the stakeholders involved in the commissioning process and the ensuing operation. The focus is on developing methods for a data driven supplement to the normal commissioning process and a method for continuous surveillance of the building in operation, which can be used as fault detection of the building control system. The idea is to combine easy access to data with expert knowledge. 

The data collection method has been developed in a current project using systematic data acquisition from IoT-based sensors. In a commissioning process the first year of operation should be monitored. It is the goal of this project to show how this can be done efficiently based on data which is collected continuously in a building context as a supplement to the acceptance tests using dimensioning conditions, which do not tell about the actual operation of the building.

After the commissioning process is finished the project will shift to a phase where the same sensor setup is used for surveillance of the delivered indoor climate and consumption. This is inspired by an approach to monitoring IT systems and is called functional monitoring focused on energy consumption and indoor climate. This is used as an efficient and targeted way to find faults in the building operation whether it is in the BMS system or in technical installations.