Created in 2012, the Smart Buildings Alliance (SBA) aims to enable its members (industrialists, service companies, design offices, architects, builders, developers, developers, integrators, installers or innovative start-ups) to contribute to the development of the Smart Building sector and draw the value of the building upwards, for all stakeholders : owners, users, communities. The SBA also publishes flagship standards and promotes the use of interoperable solutions based on open standards.
In 2018, a first conference in Luxembourg was held on the theme of building efficiency and the concept of smart buildings. This year, the focus was on energy consumption in a context of rising energy prices and possible shortages or blackouts this winter. By 2050, we will have to reduce our energy consumption while increasing electric mobility at the same time, hence the importance of flexibility and global connection at the micro and macro level for efficient resource management.
The SBA recently published the 2nd version of its R2S Label, after 18 months of consultations, which aims to be a reference guide on the concept of Smart Building. Today, there are about a hundred buildings undergoing R2S certification, including by Certivea.
1st Round Table: Building Operating Systems
* Third parties need connectivity. However, banks are very reluctant to do interconnectivity and prefer two separate networks.
* There is still a lot of work on the smart part and energy management: the installations are still too little optimized to take into account the occupation. * System optimization and space automation still have room for improvement.
* Siemens offers new applications to meet the demands of owners, managers or users of the premises for buildings to talk to their users in order to improve well-being, safety, access, space reservations, and even provide information on the menus of nearby restaurants and waiting times.
* On the new smart lots, there are high expectations on the energy part (price and / or regulations to come) and on the optimization of work since the pandemic.
* Digital twins of buildings (3D models) are also designed.
2nd round table: Smart home
* The Smart is to be dissociated from the home automation gadget
* Some data must be able to be shared at the neighbourhood level (open but anonymous system)
In Luxembourg, the approach is mature and the country can become the bridgehead in Europe according to Emmanuel François, president of the SBA
* The deployment of the smart home allows flexibility and monitoring of load curves and electricity production (especially with the multiplication of heat pumps and electric cars)
* Smart vision is shared in project management projects but in reality, it is limited to the management of lighting and sound in the house while the goal should be to avoid any type of manual adjustments.
A real pedagogical work is to be carried out upstream of the construction to integrate the equipment of the houses.
* It also requires new professionsto support contractors and start from uses.
This will be healthier and simpler than the centralized “Jacobin” approach of GAFAM that has invested in the market.
* The multi-service operating system with user interface will be one of the key success factors of the smart home