Course

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The course provides insight into selected current research topics in the field of intelligent buildings. Typical topics can be:

• Demand Side Management and Demand Response in buildings.
• Potential of permanent measures to increase plant efficiency.
• Increased added value of storage and generation through neighbourhood considerations such as local energy communities.
• Comprehensive considerations of mobility, heat and electricity for sector coupling in buildings and neighbourhoods.
• Home automation systems as a means of intelligent plant operation.
• Market-based approaches as means for optimized plant operation.

After the course, the students will be familiar with individual current technical developments in the field of intelligent buildings. As a result of the course, they have obtained a detailed assessment of their advantages and disadvantages. The students

• can present the specific technological developments presented and describe how they work
• recognise the need for the development of new technical solutions at the level of buildings and residential areas for the successes of the energy revolution
• can evaluate the technologies considered in the course and the concept of sector coupling in terms of their advantages and disadvantages
• can critically reflect individual approaches and technologies with regard to their effects on the building, the neighbourhood and higher-level systems (such as energy networks)

Lectures

Final Examination

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• Castilla, María del Mar u.a. (2014): Comfort Control in Buildings. London: Springer London (= Advances in Industrial Control). 
• Pereira, Pedro F.; Ramos, Nuno M.M.; Delgado, João M.P.Q. (2019): Intelligent Residential Buildings and the Behaviour of the Occupants: State of the Art. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Servatius, Hans-Gerd; Schneidewind, Uwe; Rohlfing, Dirk (Hrsg.) (2012): Smart energy: Wandel zu einem nachhaltigen Energiesystem. Heidelberg: Springer.

Presence event. No obligation to attend.