Portal de Murcia
www.portaldemurcia.com
The City of Murcia has participated in the first meeting for the launch of the European project whose overall goal is SmartSpaces enable European public authorities to significantly improve energy management in buildings they occupy.
The project will substantially reduce overall peak demand and energy and water in public buildings in the EU (at least 20%), by implementing the same so-called Information Technology and Communication (ICT ), the awareness of users of the buildings in the consumption of energy and water resources, and efficient management of machinery and equipment in each building.
SmartSpaces The project, which just started last 36 months and will focus the implementation of two pilot tests for monitoring and remote management of energy consumption in the buildings that comprise groups: La Glorieta and building adjacent to City Hall, the Local Police Headquarters and Fire headquarters Polygon Infante D.
Juan Manuel.
The challenge is to create an intelligent system that can make use of energy data of buildings and inform both local and central levels in a simple and understandable.
The City of Murcia ALEM through its Local Agency for Energy and Climate Change Murcia, provide support in optimizing the habits related to energy consumption in buildings based on the consistent measurement and knowledge of pilot buildings.
The service management components include effective control of ICT, renewable energy from local sources and consumption of electricity and fuel for air conditioning and lighting.
The desired result is a system that can provide the following information:
- Monitoring of energy consumption on a centralized and computerized (monitoring).
- Use of the building data such as schedules and demands, for managers of buildings and their staff to manage it more efficiently.
- Improved performance of the building and monitoring throughout the year
Improved communication to all staff in the performance of your building.
To increase awareness of energy consumption and user engagement in its efficient use should lead to considerable energy savings.
In operational terms, the European consortium that integrates SmartSpaces conducted intensive work on the optimization of services for all user groups and maximizing the impact on resource consumption habits.
A total of 11 pilots in over 550 buildings in eight countries including UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Turkey and Serbia.
These buildings are used by over 20,000 professionals and users, and around 6,000,000 visitors a year.
SmartSpaces The project will last 3 years is structured as follows:
- Year 1: 2012: Evaluation of the potential energy savings of the proposed buildings in the pilot, consideration possible technological solutions to energy savings in these buildings to enter, identify the persons responsible for the management of energy, and inform users about the new building project.
- Year 2: 2013: will be purchased and installed the equipment and technology components in the buildings of the pilot, there will be the implementation thereof, and train managers on their management and energy on actions to be out to reduce energy consumption.
Also, users of the buildings will be informed of the measures implemented and will be asked their collaboration for energy efficient buildings.
- Year 3: 2014: Measurements are taken and acquire new data on energy consumption, and compared with those with the buildings prior to the installation of equipment and efficient management of the building.
Results will be disseminated to both building users and society in general.
They draw conclusions about the appropriateness of the actions carried out for playback on other municipal buildings.
As for the technology to use in the project SmartSpaces, will explore the feasibility of providing buildings of systems for the following tasks in energy efficiency and intelligent management of buildings:
- Limitation of temperature control units to operate at temperatures no higher than those considered to be efficient in winter (21 º C) and summer (26 º C).
- Temperature sensors in the various rooms to create alarms if passed setpoints or windows open while air conditioning is running.
- Motion sensors and lighting in different rooms to detect the spaces not found anyone or those over-illuminated lights off where not needed.
- Turning off appliances and lights associated with "ghost consumption": those that occur at times when the building is empty (air conditioning machines are left on by mistake at night, computers and printers that you forget to turn during the weekend, etc. ..)
- Rationalization of the use of unnecessary lighting equipment and cleaning schedules for the building to prevent an entire building remains steady while only a few people are doing cleanup.
- Monitor instantaneous and historical consumption of the building so that it allows to know how and where energy is being used and set consumption limits to generate alarms when these are exceeded.
In this way, you can act instantly on the elements of energy consumers to avoid energy waste and improve performance.
- Provide information to building users about energy is being consumed and the savings in both energy and carbon dioxide emissions, which are getting with the measures taken by collaborating.
SmartSpaces is a dynamic project that includes multiple technology solutions to optimize energy consumption of buildings according to their geographical location, building characteristics, and type of use.
Thus, each participating country will use a different technology solution specially tailored to the nature of the buildings to be optimized.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies