Building Automation

By facilitating more open digital platforms in the real estate sector, we create opportunities for innovative, replicable, and cost-effective solutions to reach the market faster.

These solutions enable us to leverage buildings to support flexible energy use, tailored to the needs of tomorrow’s energy system.

REDUCED ENERGY USE — REDUCED CLIMATE IMPACT
Today, the real estate sector accounts for a full 40 percent of Sweden’s energy consumption and approximately 20 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, Sweden aims to halve its emissions, making a transformation of the real estate sector essential. This transformation involves a shift to renewable energy and working to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption.

This also means that buildings must be able to adjust their energy demand based on current electricity prices and the availability of renewable energy — something that requires effective building automation.

BUILDING AUTOMATION AS THE KEY TO EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT
To make buildings smarter and more energy efficient, advanced control systems are needed that can manage indoor climate, energy consumption, and flexibility services in a data-driven way. Building automation means that a computer or microprocessor controls the building’s energy use, ensuring that everything from heating and cooling to ventilation and lighting functions optimally.

Effective building automation and data-driven management are thus central to creating buildings that are not only energy efficient but can also adapt to future energy demands and challenges.

OPEN INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLES FASTER SCALING
When it comes to improving energy efficiency in buildings, we have seen that it is possible to achieve up to 30 percent savings simply through operational optimization and adjustments. However, there is currently a lack of open infrastructure on which to build these services, which would enable faster scaling of energy and flexibility services. This is the infrastructure that we aim to build within this project.

To succeed, the project brings together players from various sectors — property owners, managers, system providers, product manufacturers, and energy companies. By working together, we create a bridge between these areas, enabling new solutions for automation, maintenance, and visualization. The goal is for these open platforms to allow more participants to develop tools that contribute to a faster transition towards energy efficiency and sustainable properties.