Ever experienced ‘Museum On The Go’?

Museum On The Go APP is already under development and soon it will be presented to the the public for further testing and improvements. Till then, stay tuned!

2gether we spread art the ‘3D’ way!

Hypertech is proudly participating as project coordinator and member of the consortium of the 2gether project. It’s a partnership of the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki - MOMus, the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). The project was launched in February 2020 and is funded by the Greek National General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) with a three-year horizon of delivery.The project is already in progress but the best is yet to come.Stay tuned and mostly 2gether!

Hagia Sophia 3D virtual representation project completed

HYPERTECH completed the implementation of scenarios and 3D models of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople) for the Foundation of the Hellenic World.The project developed the virtual digital representation of the church of St. Sophia monument in Istanbul, as it was in the period of 11th to 12th century.Project contained the following basic activities:The "Tholos" is the Foundation's dome-shaped Virtual Reality "Theatre" with a capacity of 130 people. It is a building of exceptional architectural design and with unique technological infrastructure, which hosts FHW's digital collections.The "Tholos" resembles a planetarium regarding its natural and morphological characteristics. However, their only common characteristic is the semi-circular shape of the projection surface. The exterior shape of the "Tholos" refers to a whirling celestial body. It a sensation that is rendered through the processing of surfaces and the selection of materials, such as the successive rings that surround the external shell and the special lights that make it stand out during the night. Thus, the "Tholos" becomes a symbol of Hellenism and characterizes Pireos street.The shows are interactive, controlled by the spectator, and not static. It is a unique experience of immersion into the virtual world, which is characterized by immediate response, flexibility, originality and liveliness.

H2020 - ORBEET Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been recently awarded with a new contract from the European Commission with the aim to develop an innovative Building Operational Rating framework, that enables significant energy savings in public office buildings through real time building monitoring, continuous measurement of the impact of different activities on the overall building energy performance and most importantly, timely, relevant and personalized feedback towards triggering sustainable energy behaviours. Ten partners from 6 EU countries - Greece (Hypertech Energy Labs/ Technical Coordinator), Spain (Solintel, City of Asparrena), Austria (BOC, BHOe), Bulgaria (Balkanika Energy, Pernik Municipality), Germany (University of Erlangen), United Kingdom (Coventry University, Grindrop) - will work together for 36 months in the €1.7M ORBEET project.ORBEET proposes an ICT-based framework to induce behaviour change toward energy efficiency by transforming energy measurements into personalized feedback delivered through engaging user interfaces. ORBEET foresees dynamic, spatially fine-grained extensions of building-level Operational Rating methodologies and Display Energy Certificates to provide a detailed view of energy use in office spaces, business processes and organizational entities rather than entire buildings. The fusion of information from Buildings, Business Process Models and real-time energy measurements via a comprehensive ICT cloud service - the Systemic Enterprise Operational Rating framework - will enable energy use tracking and will establish direct accountability of people, processes and spaces toward overall consumption. Furthermore, by exposing the direct influence of occupant behaviour on energy use, enables the design and successful deployment of behavioural change campaigns in public organization buildings.The ORBEET framework and behavioural change interventions will undergo real-life pilot validation in four EU public buildings that provide the business, cultural and geographical diversity for demonstration of result effectiveness and transferability, toward further exploitation of project outcomes in real life applications.

HYPERTECH signs a contract with the Publications Office of the European Union

HYPERTECH has been awarded with a service contract to carry out a study on the replacement of the Publications Office current cataloguing tool.The current system is an off-the-shelf tool adapted to the specific requirements of the Publications Office, notably its need to produce multilingual publications records which may be viewed in the 24 official languages of the EU. In 2018 the Publications Office created more than 26.000 bibliographic records. In total the current tool contains more than 300.000 records covering a collection dating back to 1952.The Publications Office is looking to replace its current cataloguing tool with either a new off-the-shelf solution or a custom-built application. The replacement of the cataloguing tool is also an opportunity to review and optimise workflows and working processes.To successfully respond to the requirements of the study and determine all necessary features to accommodate such a system, HYPERTECH will first review the current cataloguing practice for EU publications and also perform an extensive research on the available market options.HYPERTECH’s work will include a comparison analysis for both open source and commercial choices, taking into account specific core attributes, which a software should provide to be considered for the examined solution, e.g. categorization, metadata management, multilingualism, version control, keyword and filtered search, sharing, scalability, interoperability and open standards, usage tracking and analytics etc.At the end of the analysis, HYPERTECH will provide the recommended choice and also present the advantages and disadvantages of the development of a customized solution that may also be able to fulfil the needs of the Publications Office.

UtilitEE Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: UtilitEE) focusing on the development of novel Energy-as-a-Service business models and associated tools for energy utilities. Hypertech Energy Labs will coordinate an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, actively involving ETRA, Solintel and MyEnergia (Spain), Suite5 (Ireland), the University of Basel (Switzerland), VaasaETT (Finland), Mytilineos/Protergia (Greece), SOREA (France), TAURON (Poland) and Stadtwerke Trier (Germany).UtilitEE is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic EE-7: Behavioural change toward energy efficiency through ICT. The project has officially been launched on November 1st 2017, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €2.8M.Utilities are facing political pressure to reduce the energy end use by their customers and GHG emissions. Consumers, on the other hand, are empowered by the proliferation of IT interfaces and multiplication of channels. Their expectations for everything-anytime-anywhere interaction are redefining the nature of (energy) services. The advent of smart building technologies for energy efficiency reveal a mega-trend on the evolution of consumer choices and highlight the need for addressing their requirements for user-friendly, meaningful and actionable communication. Faced with these realities, business as usual is no longer an option for energy utilities. They must seek new sources of revenues by introducing bundled building energy management service packages including energy efficiency, smart controls and automation.The UtilitEE project will provide a customer-oriented Behavioural Change Framework (Energy-as-a-Service delivery approach via an open ICT ecosystem integrated into the building with off-the-shelf sensors). It focuses on discovering, quantifying and revealing energy-hungry activities and conveys meaningful feedback to engage users into a continuous process of learning and improvement. UtilitEE will leverage well-known behavioural models/ theories and standardized operational rating/ certification methods. It will also incorporate human-centric intelligent control features that use occupant comfort profiles and supportively control HVAC and lights so as to minimize energy waste, while always keeping occupants comfortable and preserving a healthy indoor environment.The framework will be validated in real-life conditions by a large population of residential and commercial consumers and aims to reduce energy use by ~30%. Validation activities will also explore future business models and go-to-market strategies for utilities. A holistic roadmap and business plan for the exploitation and replication of project results will be delivered.

FLEXIGRID GRANT

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: FLEXIGRID). The main goal of FLEXIGRID is to allow the distribution grid to operate in a secure and stable manner when a large share of variable generation electricity sources is connected to low and medium voltage grids. To do so, FLEXIGRID proposes a three-level approach aiming at Flexibility, Reliability, and Economic Efficiency through the development of innovative hardware and software solutions. These solutions will be demonstrated in four Demo-Sites across Europe ensuring their interoperability through its integration into an open source platform able to harmonize the data flow between FLEXIGRID solutions and the real grid.Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by CIRCE (Spain) and actively involving Viesgo, Atos, Ormazabal, Unican and ZIV (Spain), ELIN and Ioannis Sarantis Touristic Hotel (Greece), HEP-ODS and University of Zagreb (Croatia), EDYNA, The LINKS Foundation and SELTA (Italy), Capenergies (France) and CEDEC (Belgium).FLEXIGRID is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LCE-01: LC-SC3-ES-1-2019 - Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid. The project has officially been launched on October 1st 2019, its duration is 48 months and it has a total budget of €6.8M.The expected increasing share of variable RES is challenging the electric grid in terms of reliability, stability and security of supply. Indeed, the European renewable target for 2030 (32% of total energy consumed) means that more than 50% of electricity will be generated from RES, most of which will be connected to the MV and LV grids. As an answer to these present and incoming challenges, FLEXIGRID project proposes to improve the distribution grid operation making it more flexible, reliable and cost-efficient, through the development of 4 HW and 4 SW solutions. Furthermore, a single open source platform will integrate the different solutions making them interoperable with the IT systems used by the energy stakeholders, increasing its replication potential.With the aim of increasing the project’s replication potential, 8 use cases have been identified to address EU most common distribution grid problems. These use cases are represented by 4 complementary demo-sites ready to upgrade FLEXIGRID solutions towards TRL8: a rural and peri-urban network in Spain with a RES share of 39%; a resort in the Greek Island of Thasos able to integrate 10% of RES; an urban grid in the city of Zagreb with congested areas, and an isolated valley in the South-Tyrol region of Italy with more than 50% of hydroelectric energy.To reach the project objectives, the consortium counts with partners representing all the energy system value-chain. In this sense, 2 RTOs and 2 Universities will work together with 5 technology providers to develop the project solutions and deploy them in the four demo-sites, represented by 3 DSOs and 2 large companies. Finally, 2 associations will ensure the exploitation and dissemination of the project results along the EU energy community.Finally, FLEXIGRID will support the ‘Clean Energy for All’ Europeans package while actively cooperating with BRIDGE initiative thanks to the presence of the consortium in 10 of its projects

WiseGRID Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been awarded a large R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: WiseGRID) focusing on the development of innovative tools and novel business models that can facilitate the wide deployment of Smart Grids and Demand Response around Europe. Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by ETRA I+D and actively involving ICCS/NTUA, AUEB, HEDNO, Aegean Energy Agency and EPA (Greece), Bouygues Energy Services (France), Engineering, ASM Terni and E-Motion (Italy), Romanian Energy Centre (Romania), ECOPOWER, RESCoop.EU and Partago (Belgium), Enercoop, Ampere, ITE and AENOR (Spain), Varta (Germany) and Queen Mary University (United Kingdom).WiseGRID is a light-house project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LCE 2 – 2016: Demonstration of smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with increasing share of renewables: distribution system. The project has officially been launched on November 1st 2016, its duration is 42 months and it has a total budget of €17.6M.WiseGRID has two intertwined and equally important strategic goals: on the one hand, it aims at successfully putting in the market, within a horizon of 24 months after project completion, a set of solutions and technologies which increase the smartness, stability and security of an open, consumer-centric European energy grid, with an enhanced use of storage technologies and a highly increased share of RES. On the other hand, the project intends to have a significant impact in the business and innovation activities of the consortium -with a planned ROI for the partners of less than 30 months after commercialisation of WiseGRID products and services starts- and the European sector at large, contributing to the creation of jobs, the access to new energy services of citizens and public/private organisations, the saving of CO2, and the increase of RES, among other impacts.The achievement of these strategic goals will involve the four aspects addressed by LCE-02-2016: (a) Demand Response, (b) Smartening the Distribution Grid, (c) Demonstrating Energy Storage Technologies and (d) the Smart Integration of Grid Users from Transport.WiseGRID technologies and solutions will be packed within 9 different products, the impact of which will be demonstrated under real life conditions in 4 large scale demonstrators –in Belgium, Italy, Spain and Greece-. In order to facilitate the assessment of the performance, transferability and scalability of these solutions, the demonstrations will be conducted following 7 high level use cases.The involvement of Hypertech Energy Labs in the WiseGRID project is mainly focused on the configuration and demonstration of innovative solutions for Context-based demand flexibility profilng, Consumers' flexibility analysis, Demand Response strategies optimization and Human-Centric Lighting and HVAC automation.

Social Community for Sport & Culture Clubs for Municipality of Filis

HYPERTECH has been awarded to implement a services framework for widespread availability and open public access to sports facilities and cultural events of Filis Municipality based on HYPERTECH sport and culture social community.Additionally project aims to promote the activities of sports and cultural clubs in the region including social networking features like micro-sites/ profiles, walls, groups, multimedia content exchange etc.

HYPERTECH successfully redesigned the ESPON website

HYPERTECH was awarded and successfully executed a service contract to deliver a new creative design proposal for the ESPON website.The main objective of the project was to design a modern, innovative and interactive website for ESPON to communicate with the relevant stakeholders and disseminate European territorial evidence resulting from the ESPON activities.To achieve this, the project targeted the following goals:The project execution included the following main activities:About ESPONESPON started in 2002 and has continued since then building a pan-European knowledge base related to territorial dynamics. The ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme is financed by the ERDF, as well as by the 28 EU Member States and 4 Partner States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The Programme plays the specific role in supporting policy development, institutional capacity, effective policy making and efficient public administration with European territorial evidence.Since 2002 ESPON communicates with many different stakeholders, ranging from scientists to policy makers, politicians, professionals, media, and at local, regional, national and European level. This communication shall further expand and the outreach of territorial evidence shall become even wider. The redesign of the ESPON website plays an important role in this context.

HYPERTECH signs a new three-year framework contract with ESPON EGTC

HYPERTECH was assigned a three-year framework contract to host and maintain the ESPON website, the ESPON EGTC e-Tendering Platform and all the existing and new ESPON web applications and tools as well as provide support regarding website related issues and web development of new functionalities and applications.The main tasks expected to be performed during the contract period are the following:Setup an appropriate web hosting cloud environment, which can guarantee performance, bandwidth, fast networking, high availability with minimal service interruptions, frequent backups with restoration solution and sufficient storage capacity.Perform seamless, lossless and fast migration of all the ESPON applications, their content, stored files and functionalities from the previous to the new hosting environment.Provide regular hosting and maintenance services by constantly checking, monitoring, testing, and updating the cloud environment and ensuring high standards for all the running systems.Develop additional technical solutions such as new web applications and functionalities, improve User Experience (UI/UX) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) practices as well as provide consultation regarding the evolution of the ESPON tools and the programme in general.ESPON started its operations in 2002 and has continued since then building a pan-European knowledge base related to territorial dynamics. The ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme is financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the 28 EU Member States and the four Partner States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland). The Programme plays an important role in supporting policy development, institutional capacity, effective policy making and efficient public administration with European territorial evidence.

PLANET Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project: PLANET - Planning and operational tools for optimising energy flows and synergies between energy networksThe PLANET aim is to design and develop a holistic Decision Support System for grid operational planning and management in order to explore, identify, evaluate and quantitatively assess optimal strategies to deploy, integrate and operate conversion/storage systems on the distribution grid of several energy carriers within boundary constraints of real deployments outlined in the future energy system scenarios. Such tools are crucial for policy makers and network operators who need support in decision making process.The simulation of the integration between electricity, gas and heat networks models, together with conversion/storage technologies models for power-to-gas, power-to-heat and virtual thermal energy storage, will help to understand and quantify how these conversions can affect network stability, reliability and responsiveness as well as to optimize these metrics across networks.The PLANET tools will be demonstrated and validated using information from the actual premises and customers of two distribution network operators in Italy and France. They manage electricity, natural gas and district heating networks, hence they provide a solid testbed corresponding to real-world solution deployments to evaluate the actual benefits of PLANET solutions.Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and actively involving Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy and Vaasaett LTD AB OY (Finland), Iren SPA and Fondazione Links – Leading Innovation and Knowledge for Society (Italy), Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anptyxis (Greece), Grindrop LTD and ITM Power (Trading) Limited (UK), Forschungsgemeinschaft Fuer Elektrische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft E.V. (Germany), Sorea (France) and Merit Consulting House SPRL (Belgium).HYPERTECH will lead WPs on System architecture design and energy system projections, Grid and Networks simulation, management and global demand coordination framework.PLANET is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LCE-05-2017 - Tools and technologies for coordination and integration of the European energy system. The project has officially been launched on November 1st 2017, its duration is 50 months and it has a total budget of €3.9M.The main objectives of the project are:To develop cost effective and highly efficient human-centric Virtual Energy Storage using power-to-heat conversion capabilities in the European building stock. To further develop and optimize the integration of power-to-gas and system for decentralised energy conversion deployment in the distribution grid.To provide policy makers & network managers and operators with the necessary tools for the grid planning, optimization, impact assessment and operational management through enhanced interconnection between diverse energy networks with the deployment of decentralized conversion/ storage solutions.To contribute to the creation of a viable route for the adoption of decentralized storage/conversion solutions in the Energy Union by means of a market-driven policy.To contribute to the creation of new regulation recommendations for changing energy environments and policy suggestions to improve market efficiency.

Interactive social network platform for Fyli municipality

The portal created a modern framework for integrated and flexible services for accessing sports facilities (for citizens, Sports associations, stakeholders, etc.) and promotion of the activities of sports and clubs in the municipality via social community features.The portal provides integrated information for all available installations, sport events and activities and uses social interaction, calendars, pictures and videos. It utilizes digital cartography, suitably updated to present all the necessary spatial data and information specifying the locations of sports facilities, points of interest and events, based on the digital content of the municipality and the material posted by users.Additionally, the system promotes activities of sports and cultural clubs in the region including social networking features like micro-sites/ profiles of sport and culture clubs, walls, groups, multimedia content exchange etc.The system provides also online booking facilities, where citizens can quickly and easily make reservations for specific dates and time. Citizens can use the swimming pool, the soccer fields, or basketball courts, etc. of the municipality by booking them online and in real time. The system also manages citizen requests and complaints related to the managed sports facilities ensuring good operation and safety of the installations and events.Fyli (Greek: Φυλή) is a municipality in the northwestern part of Attica, Greece. It lies in the northeastern corner of the West Attica regional unit, and is a suburb of Athens. The municipality Fyli was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units: Ano Liosia, Fyli and Zefyri. The municipality boasts a population 50.000 citizens.

The PLANET project white paper

HYPERTECH is proud to be part of PLANET H2020 consortium and present its White Paper that summarizes the key aspects of the research framework and shares its conclusions with the interested stakeholders.The publication is targeting DSOs as network operators and planners, policymakers at EU and national level, energy market and policy regulators, standardisation bodies, RES producers, aggregators, P2G/P2H solution providers, end-prosumers, the scientific community as well as representatives of the EU/ National Smart Grid and Energy Conversion and Storage Industrial communities.It aims to:The file can be downloaded here:

MERLON GRANT

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: MERLON). MERLON introduces an integrated modular local energy management framework for the holistic operational optimisation of local energy systems in presence of high shares of volatile distributed renewable energy sources. Optimisation in MERLON applies to multiple levels spanning optimal coordination of local generation as well as flexibility provision to facilitate maximum integration of renewable energy, avoidance of curtailment and satisfaction of balancing/ancillary grid needs. In this sense MERLON will also enable the realisation of novel business models, allowing local energy communities to introduce themselves in local flexibility markets, while assigning to local Distribution System Operators the tools for the provision of added value services to the overlay distribution grid.Hypertech Energy Labs holds the role of project coordinator of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners involving Atos and Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S.A. (COBRA) (Spain), Imperial College London and University of Newcastle UPON TYNE (UK), Suite5 (Cyprus), GUSSING and European Center for Renewable Energy Güssing Ltd (Austria), SOREA (France), MERIT CONSULTING (Belgium), XOROTEXNIKI and University of Peloponnese (Greece) and India Smart Grid Forum India.MERLON is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ LC-SC3-ES-3-2018-2020 - Integrated local energy systems (Energy islands). The project has officially been launched on January 1st 2019, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €7M.The de-centralization of electricity generation requires equally de-centralized and affordable solutions to integrate more RES, increase the security of supply and decarbonize the EU energy future. The combination and unique integration of de-centralized storage with technologies for local energy system optimization, including demand response, electric vehicle charging optimization and synergies with other energy vectors at the local level, can offer a cost-efficient pathway (in comparison to high-CAPEX grid upgrade investments) for local energy systems optimization in presence of high volumes of volatile and intermittent RES, since huge amounts of currently non-utilized flexibility can be unleashed to ensure optimal congestion management and effective tackling of local instabilities and imbalances. MERLON introduces an Integrated Modular Local Energy Management Framework for the Holistic Operational Optimization of Local Energy Systems in presence of high shares of volatile distributed RES. Optimization in MERLON applies to multiple levels spanning optimal coordination of local generation, with demand and storage flexibility, as well as flexibility offered by EVs and CHP Plants to facilitate maximum RES integration, avoidance of curtailment and satisfaction of balancing/ ancillary grid needs. MERLON will enable the realization of novel business models, allowing local energy communities to introduce themselves in local flexibility markets, while paving the way for the realization of novel Microgrid-as-a-Service models, assigning to local DSOs the role of “Aggregator of Aggregators” for the provision of added value services to the overlay distribution grid. It equips local stakeholders (DSOs, energy cooperatives, prosumers) with innovative and highly effective tools for the establishment of robust business practices to exploit their microgrids and dynamic VPPs as balancing and ancillary assets toward grid stability and alleviation of network constraints.

Data Analytics by HYPERTECH on Health Data to delay older persons frailty

HYPERTECH has been recently awarded with a new contract from the European Commission. The FrailSafe project was launched on 1st January 2016 with the ambitious aim to delay frailty by developing a set of measures and tools, together with recommendations to reduce its onset. To achieve these objectives, FrailSafe will combine state of the art information technologies and data mining techniques with high-level expertise in the field of health and ageing. The project is funded by the European Research programme Horizon 2020 and will last three years.Ageing population is increasing worldwide to reach an estimated two billion people aged over 65 years by 2050. While the increasing life expectancy is a positive outcome due to long-lasting health and social improvements, there is still much to do to improve the Healthy life years indicator i.e. the number of years without disability. Frailty is a syndrome characterized by diminished strength, endurance, and reduced physiologic function that increases an individual’s vulnerability for developing increased dependency, and/or death. Frailty is also related to multiple pathologies: weight loss, and/or fatigue, weakness, low activity, slow motor performance, and balance and gait abnormalities. It makes older persons more vulnerable to stressors and has major health care implications, which in turn have an impact on the planning and delivery of health and social services. Frailty together with functional decline and disability are common conditions among older people, and are increasing with ageing. However, frailty is a dynamic and not an irreversible process; it seems preventable, may be delayed, or reversed. FrailSafe, an international partnership of nine partners from six countries, decided to join forces to find solutions to delay the onset of frailty. Partners include: the University of Patras (Greece, coordinator), Brainstorm (Spain), Smartex and Gruppo SIGLA (Italy), CERTH and HYPERTECH (Greece), INSERM (France), AgeCare (Cyprus) and AGE Platform Europe (Belgium). FrailSafe aims to:better understand frailty and its relation to other health conditions; identify quantitative and qualitative measures of frailty through advanced data mining approaches and use them to predict short and long-term outcome and risk of frailty; develop real life sensing and an intervention platform; provide a digital patient model of frailty sensitive to several dynamic parameters, including physiological, behavioral and contextual; create “prevent-frailty” evidence-based recommendations for older persons; strengthen the motor, cognitive, and other “anti-frailty” activities through the delivery of personalised treatment programmes, monitoring alerts, guidance and education; achieve the above through a safe, unobtrusive and acceptable system for the ageing population while reducing the cost of health care systems.Due to its extensive expertise, HYPERTECH contributes to key phases of the FrailSafe life-cycle: Requirements analysis, architecture definition, user profile modelling, data analytics and visualization, system integration. HYPERTECH also plays a significant role as the leader of tasks related to dissemination, exploitation and generation of the FrailSafe business models.

Contract for Technical Consultancy Services to the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture

HYPERTECH has been recently awarded, along with KPMG Cyprus, with a service contract to deliver Technical Consultancy Services to the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC).The contract consists in designing and specifying a modern integrated information system which will cover MoEC’s needs. It will assist public schools and institutions across the Republic of Cyprus at their educational goals, while providing MoEC with a powerful cyber-governance tool for better monitoring of personnel, students, resources, processes etc.The contractor will initially design an invitation to tender including all the criteria, specifications and requirements in terms of processes, software and hardware needed for this new integrated information system. During the system’s implementation, the contractor will be responsible for project monitoring, consultancy to the different involved parties, while ensuring thorough technical testing and acceptance on behalf of MoEC.HYPERTECH, based on its long expertise in IT and information systems lifecycle, will be responsible for the entire system’s design, including detailed requirements analysis, technical specifications, acceptance testing and compatibility analysis for future integration with external systems.The entire project is being co-financed by the Republic of Cyprus and EU’s European Regional Development Fund and will last over 5 years until October 2023.

HOLISDER Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: HOLISDER) focusing on the development of novel solutions for the realization of highly effective demand response programmes in EU Energy Markets. Hypertech Energy Labs hold the role of the technical manager of the project and will coordinate the technical activities to be realized by an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by the Tecnalia (Spain) and actively involving Honeywell (Czech Republic), TNO (Nehterlands), ETRA and Solintel (Spain), Koncar KET (Croatia), BELIT and BEOELEK (Serbia), ASM (Poland), Mytilineos/Protergia (Greece), KiWi Power (UK) and Caverion (Finland).HOLISDER is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic EE-12: Integration of Demand Response in Energy Management Systems while ensuring interoperability through Public Private Partnership. The project has officially been launched on October 1st 2017, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €5M.HOLISDER introduces a Holistic Demand Response Optimization Framework that will enable significant energy costs reduction (~45%) at the consumer side, while introducing buildings as a major contributor to energy networks’ stability in response to network constraints and conditions.HOLISDER brings together a wide range of mature technologies and integrates them in an open and interoperable framework, comprising in a fully-fledged suite of tools addressing the needs of the whole DR value chain. In this way it will ensure consumer empowerment/transformation into active market players, through the deployment of a variety of implicit and hybrid DR schemes, supported by a variety of end-user applications for Personalized Informative Billing, Human-Centric Energy Management, Load Scheduling and Intelligent Controls, Self-consumption promotion and cost-effective storage, Predictive Maintenance, along with Context-Aware Automation.The backbone of HOLISDER project consists in an “open” and modular interoperability and data management framework that will enable open standards-based communication along the DR value chain. It will integrate two main commercial technologies/ products (JACE, EF-i) to ensure seamless information exchange, communication and operation on top of any Building and District EMS, as well as, Smart Home systems/devices. On the business side HOLISDER will focus on the definition of new business models for intermediaries and third parties (aggregators, energy retailers, facility managers, ESCOs) that will facilitate consumers’ involvement into energy markets by acting on their behalf and making the most out of their flexibility value.The HOLISDER framework will be validated in 4 large-scale demonstrators/pilot sites, located in Greece, UK, Finland and Serbia, incorporating diverse building types, heterogeneous home, building and district EMS and devices, a variety of energy carriers and spanning diverse climatic conditions, demographics and cultures.

HYPERTECH participates in a consortium to build the ESPON European and Macro-regional Territorial Monitoring Tool

HYPERTECH, as part of a pan-European consortium, has been recently awarded with a service contract to deliver the ESPON European and Macro-regional Territorial Monitoring Tool (EMTM Tool).The aim of this contract is to develop a practical and operational tool to continuously observe the development trends and patterns taking place in Europe, its macro-regions (Adriatic-Ionian, Alpine, Baltic Sea, Danube), regions and cities. The tool will support European, macro-regional, national and regional policy makers and other stakeholders with territorial information, data, analytical features and short reports. By reading and interpreting the quantitative statistical information in the light of policy objectives and aims, the EMTM Tool shall help policy makers to monitor development trends and policy performance, identify development opportunities and territorial challenges, as well as better understand the diversity and position (benchmarking) of regions and cities in the heterogeneous European context.HYPERTECH is responsible for the development of a simple and highly communicative front-end web interface for the EMTM tool, providing an interactive user experience and offering a collection of dashboards, methods and algorithms for the analysis and interactive visualization of different types of data. These dashboards will present relevant information in the form of maps and graphs and provide interactive visual exploration tools to assist in the identification of patterns in the data.A first demo version of the EMTM Tool was presented in two recent events:The ESPON Seminar "Territorial Cohesion Post 2020: Integrated Territorial Development for Better Policies", took place in Sofia, 30-31 May 2018.The 9th Annual Forum of the EUSBSR (EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, held in Tallinn, 4-5 June 2018.A relevant video is available at ESPON’s YouTube channel, presenting an overview of this service contract (at 51:00) and a live demo of the draft EMTM tool (at 59:50).

Two centuries of Greek school textbooks fully accessible and intelligently searchable, online by HYPERTECH

HYPERTECH, as a subcontractor of TREK Consulting successfully completed an important project for the educational and scientific community: the creation of a public digital library providing open access to historical school textbooks used in the educational process from the 19th century till the early 1980s.The project contained the following primary activities:The digital library offers open access to school teachers, academic staff, researchers and the general public through a plethora of services:The project was assigned by the Institute of Educational Policy (IEP) and HYPERTECH acted as IT subcontractor to TREK Consulting.The digital library is now available at the following address: http://elibrary.iep.edu.gr/

Significant Distinction for Hypertech Energy Labs: Ranked 1st among all Greek Enterprises in H2020 Energy grants awarded for 2014

Hypertech Energy Labs' successful participation in the FP7 Programme, with the award of 4 large grants (Adapt4EE, Inertia, BESOS, OS4ES) in 3 years and 3 consecutive top ranked proposals at EU level, continues in the recently launched Horizon 2020 (H2020) programme as highlighted in a recent report published by the Greek National Documentation Centre (Greek National Contact Point for H2020).According to the report, named "Greek Participation in the Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy of Horizon 2020 Programme - 2014 Work Programme" Hypertech Energy Labs are ranked 1st among all Greek Enterprises and 3rd among all Greek Organization in terms of funding received by the European Commission for the implementation of new projects/ grants that have been awarded within 2014.This significant distinction comes after the recent announcement of the 2 new grants that have been awarded to Hypertech Energy Labs (H2020-Nobel Grid and H2020-ORBEET) in 2014 and highlights the strong research orientation of the company towards the production and delivery of highly innovative products and solutions in the energy management arena.More information about the report can be found in the National Documentation Centre website or in the attached document.

FP7 - BESOS Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a major Smart Cities contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: BESOS), as part of an international consortium of renowned industrial and academic partners like ETRA, Portugal Telecom, Lisboa e-Nova, University of Duisburg-Essen, Enercast, Sodexo, COBRA, FICO and the city of Barcelona. HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a major Smart Cities contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: BESOS), as part of an international consortium of renowned industrial and academic partners like ETRA, Portugal Telecom, Lisboa e-Nova, University of Duisburg-Essen, Enercast, Sodexo, COBRA, FICO and the city of Barcelona. BESOS is a STREP project co-funded by the EC under the FP7 Programme. For the third year in a row (as in the case of Adapt4EE and INERTIA project proposals), HYPERTECH Energy Labs are part of the top ranked proposal among all others submitted in the specific call objective. The BESOS project starting date is the 1st of October 2013, with a duration of 36 months and a total budget of 4,6M€.The strategic goal of BESOS is to enhance existing neighborhoods with decision support system to provide coordinated management of public infrastructures in Smart Cities, and at the same time provide citizens with information to promote sustainability and energy efficiency.The project will target two main stakeholders: the owners of the infrastructure –municipalities – and its operators – ESCOs. The former will be provided with a Business Balance Score Card to audit the SLAs established with the ESCOs against a number of KPIs. The latter will make use of the same tool to analyze new business models and will be also provided with a DSS Cockpit to Monitor and Control information from the infrastructure and establish coordinated energy efficiency strategies.Different Energy Management Systems within a smart city will be able to share data and services through a new Open Trustworthy Energy Service Platform. Stakeholders as ESCOS, public authorities, Distribution and Transmission System Operators, and domestic users, will be able to access and interface the existing infrastructure in smart cities. As an additional benefit, the deployment of such platform will open new opportunities to mobile application developers willing to increase energy efficiency awareness among citizens.BESOS will be tested in two leading cities: Lisbon and Barcelona. The assets that are available for the trials include: public lighting (>150000 luminaries), public buildings (>150), residential buildings (250), PV micro-generation (55 installations), wind turbines, smart heating, cogeneration, electrical vehicle charging points (> 250), and mobility systems (> 40000 traffic lights). In total >250GWh/year of consumed electricity and 168 MWh/year of produced electircity.The transferability of results is guaranteed by the strong involvement of BESOS consortium in the City Protocol Society, where more than 30 worldwide capital cities participate.

NOVICE Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: NOVICE) focusing on the development of novel business models for the simultaneous deployment of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programmes. Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by the International Energy Research Centre (IERC/ Ireland) and actively involving Tecnalia and Solintel (Spain), KiWi Power (United Kingdom), e7 (Austria), Joule Assets (Finland/ Italy), NL Green Energy Solutions (Ireland) and Apleona (Germany).NOVICE is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic EE-25-2016: Development and roll-out of innovative energy efficiency services. The project has officially been launched on June 1st 2017, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €2M.NOVICE will develop and demonstrate a new business model in building renovation to better monetize energy efficiency by consolidating services and subsequent revenue streams from both energy savings and demand response. In order to do so NOVICE introduces new actors (aggregators) in building energy upgrade projects and fosters their collaboration with ESCOs, financing institutions, facilities management companies, engineering consultants to facilitate the roll out of the dual (grid services and energy efficiency) energy services model.The main business bond to be forged between ESCOs and Aggregators through NOVICE will allow their seamless collaboration in exploiting economies of scope and scale along with risk sharing on implementing building energy renovations. That business relationship will take the form of a MoU and will result in the composition of a new enhanced EPC template that can deliver the successful deployment of the dual energy services scheme in building renovation. The enhanced EPC template and the overall dual energy services scheme will be scrutinized by a financing institution to assess its bankability and identify the appropriate financing mechanisms for initiating and rolling out investments under that scheme.NOVICE throughout its duration targets to trigger the initiation of more than 20.8 m EUR of investments in building renovation based on the dual energy services model that will result in primary energy savings of more than 25.2 GWh/year. To achieve that target NOVICE brings together a highly experienced consortium that consists of stakeholders from the entire value chain (research institutions, technology vendors, engineering consultants and facilitators, Aggregators, ESCOs, Financing institutions, Facilities Management companies) of building renovation. Strong participation of SMEs (6 out 9 partners) demonstrate the commercial exploitation potential of the NOVICE outputs and supports the successful rollout of the NOVICE business model.

HYPERTECH signs a contract with the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission

HYPERTECH, as the leader of a European consortium which also includes E3-Modelling and Global Climate Forum, has signed a contract with the Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER) of the European Commission. During this 15-month contract, the consortium will analyse and assess the potential risks to EU’s security of energy supply up to year 2050 in view of energy sector integration and clean-energy transition at the EU level.The general objective of the contract is to enhance DG ENER's understanding of potential risks that lie ahead for the energy system in the context of increasing smart sector integration, system coupling and climate change.In this regard, the HYPERTECH-led consortium will identify underlying threats, energy system vulnerabilities and risks which might endanger the short- and long-term reliability, resilience and performance of the EU energy sector in 2030 and 2050, based on the analysis of the current energy system, 2030 policy targets and the 2050 decarbonisation scenarios.The consortium will develop a custom methodology aiming to combine state-of-the-art methods and tools in order to holistically capture vulnerabilities, risks and their impact on the energy system. The main methodological steps include:This approach encompasses macro and micro perspectives, combining macro-economic tools for quantification of economic parameter impact at the EU or country level, thus enabling the establishment of causal relations among risks, their sources and their impact across the entire energy sector chain.

FLEXCoop Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: FLEXCoop) focusing on the development of novel solutions for the realization of highly effective demand response programmes in EU Energy Markets. Hypertech Energy Labs hold the role of the technical manager of the project and will coordinate the technical activities to be realized by an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by the Fraunhofer FOKUS Germany) and actively involving ETRA, CIMNE, CIRCE and Som Energia (Spain), the Danish Technical University (Denmark), Grindrop (UK), Koncar KET (Croatia), Suite5 (Ireland), RESCOOP.EU and Merit (Belgium) and ODE (Netherlands).FLEXCoop is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LCE-01: Next generation innovative technologies enabling smart grids, storage and energy system integration with increasing share of renewables: distribution network. The project has officially been launched on October 1st 2017, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €4M.FLEXCoop introduces an end-to-end Automated Demand Response Optimization Framework. It enables the realization of novel business models, allowing energy cooperatives to introduce themselves in energy markets under the role of an aggregator. It equips cooperatives with innovative and highly effective tools for the establishment of robust business practices to exploit their microgrids and dynamic VPPs as balancing and ancillary assets toward grid stability and alleviation of network constraints.Optimization in FLEXCoop applies to multiple levels. It spans local generation output, demand and storage flexibility, as well as the flexibility offered by EVs to facilitate maximum RES integration into the grid, avoidance of curtailment and satisfaction of balancing and ancillary grid needs. This is achieved via automated, human-centric demand response schemes with the participation of appropriately selected residential prosumers. To enhance prosumer acceptance, the FLEXCoop innovative services will feature non-intrusiveness, comfort and well-being preservation, non-violation of prosumer daily schedules as well as maximization of benefits through transparent and open participation in markets. It will also guarantee easy switching between DR service providers, vendor lock-in avoidance, customized DR service contracts and objective settlement and remuneration, thus establishing an energy democracy context and empowering prosumers to become active energy market players.FLEXCoop brings together a wide range of baseline technologies to build an open and interoperable DR optimization framework, including a fully-fledged tool suite for energy cooperatives (aggregators) and prosumers involved in the DR value chain, ensuring: (i) DR stakeholders empowerment and transformation into active market players, (ii) end-to-end interoperability between energy networks, energy management systems and devices and (iii) the realization of new business models for energy cooperatives.

DRIMPAC GRANT

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: DRIMPAC). The main outcome of DRIMPAC is to develop a comprehensive solution to empower consumers to become active participants in the energy market. DRIMPAC aims to bridge the gap of communication between grid/market and buildings by providing a unique and universal technological framework that facilitates the end-to-end communication of the necessary information for the discovery and delivery of demand flexibility. Hypertech Energy Labs holds the role of the technical manager of the project and will coordinate the technical activities to be realized by an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by the CERTH-ITI (Greece) and actively involving Siemens (Romania), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and SWT(Germany), Joint Research Centre – European Commission JRC and STAM (Italy), MyEnergia (Spain), SOREA (France), University of Cyprus (Cyprus) and E7 (Austria).DRIMPAC is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic EE-12-2017 - Integration of Demand Response in Energy Management Systems while ensuring interoperability through Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP). The project has officially been launched on September 1st 2018, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €4.6M.Buildings constitute a vast, yet currently untapped, source of energy demand flexibility that can provide invaluable services to the energy system. This flexibility currently remains unattainable due to the lack of a technological framework that can connect the multitude of buildings and building systems with the energy system in a cost-effective manner as well as the reluctance of energy consumers to enroll in demand response programs.DRIMPAC offers a comprehensive solution to empower consumer to become active participants in the energy markets. It comprises three main pillars:a) A legacy and Standards-compliant interoperability framework to interconnect building energy loads/appliances and expose their demand flexibility as price-responsive demand to the grid or for market actors to aggregate and bid in ancillary service markets.b) A human-centric, intelligent building energy management system that will lift the burden of demand response from the consumers shoulders and reduce reluctance and fear of participation in DR programs. It will infer user comfort preferences and dynamically control building loads to minimize energy cost and use for the building occupant leveraging dynamic prices, while always preserving comfortable and healthy indoor conditions.c) Innovative business models and service offering for energy retailers in order to facilitate their transformation from commodity suppliers to digital energy service suppliers and kick-start the deployment of the DRIMPAC solution in the market.The DRIMPAC technological framework and business models will be validated by four retailers supplying three energy carriers – electricity, natural gas and district heating – in four different national markets across the EU - France, Cyprus, Germany and Spain. Pilot demonstrations will take place in a range of building types, including residential, office, educational and others, in order to validate the DRIMPAC benefits across most building typologies.

HYPERTECH participated & presented in the “The Role of Digitization of textbooks and curricula in our Educational Heritage” Conference

Following the successful implementation of the digital public library of historical school textbooks used in the educational process from the 19th century till the early 1980s for the Greek Institute of Educational Policy, HYPERTECH, along with TREK Consulting, were invited to make a keynote presentation in the “The Role of Digitization of textbooks and curricula in our Educational Heritage” conference, co-organized by the Institute of Educational Policy and the Eugenides Foundation.The event took place in the Eugenides Foundation main conference hall in Athens, Greece on March 1st, 2016, with the presence of project stakeholders and representatives of institutions and organizations related to school textbooks and education. All participants expressed the great importance of the performed digitization and scientific documentation process for the educational and scientific community but also for the general public.The digital library, which will act as the main repository of the Greek historical school textbooks, is now publicly available at the following address: http://elibrary.iep.edu.gr/

IELECTRIX GRANT

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: IELECTRIX ) focusing on the development and demonstration of of solutions and tools for the optimisation of local energy networks to support a smooth development of Local Energy Communities (LECs) and which have a high replication potential in Europe and in India since allowing additional renewables to generate and distribute electricity at lower costs than a traditional grid reinforcement. Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by ENEDIS (France).The consortium is made of 15 partners from 8 different European member States. The consortium has the key competences along the value chain of the distribution grid and electricity markets first to successfully implement the demonstrations and second to foster the affordable deployment of an optimal mix of flexibilities by market players allowing network operators to ensure both system resilience under very high shares of RES generation and the resulting growth of Local Energy Communities. The partners are:One Indian DSO is hosting and contributing, in cooperation with ENEDIS, to one demonstration in the New Delhi state (India) IELECTRIX is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LC-SC3-ES-3-2018-2020 - Integrated local energy systems (Energy islands). The project has officially been launched on May 1st 2019, its duration is 42 months and it has a total budget of €10M.An increasing role is foreseen in Europe for local energy communities (LECs) to speed up the grid integration of RES. To-day, the enabling role of DSOs in support of LECs is hampered by a lack of flexibility when planning cost-efficient LEC connections to their network at MV level, and by a lack of digitalization of the LV networks to make LEC’s smart prosumers benefit economically when serving the DSO flexibility needs. Four European DSOs (E.ON, ENEDIS, E.DIS, Güssing Stadtwerke) and an Indian DSO (TATA) have joined with IT-based, innovative product and solution providers, and technology and research centers, to demonstrate the combined roles of innovative functionalities serving the MV and LV networks, when implemented in 5 different regulatory regimes (Austria, France, Hungary, Germany, India- state of Delhi-).For MV networks, a mobile storage concept at substation level is demonstrated in Hungary, Germany and Austria. It enables DSOs to reduce investment uncertainties, avoid hindering future renewables connection and foster the local use of flexibility with participating non-regulated market solutions (Demand Side Response-DR-).For LV networks, 3 functional use cases served by ATOS and Schneider are tested simultaneously in Austria and India with prosumer support: i) Forecasting/scheduling of Distributed Energy Resources for the optimized energy management of Local Energy Systems, ii) Customized, human-centric prosumer participation in explicit DR programs using context-aware flexibility profiles, iii) Grid-forming/islanding capabilities in Local Energy Communities to optimize their energy system resilience.The joint work of DSOS aims at accelerating scaling up and replication tested by HEDNO (Greece) and E.ON (Sweden). Dissemination towards players of the energy value chain recommends business models, possible regulatory adjustments and deployment roadmaps of the most promising use cases, in support of the implementation of the Clean Energy Package.

Contract signature with the CTBTO Preparatory Commission on UX Design Consultancy

HYPERTECH has been assigned a 4-year framework contract lasting through December 2023 to consult the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) on user experience (UX) and web application design issues. The contract also includes the provision of specialized recommendations and know-how regarding best practices and technologies used in web design.The main tasks to be performed by HYPERTECH during the contract include among others:On top of its technical consultancy role, HYPERTECH will also act as a know-how agent within CTBTO by offering guidance for the use of interactive elements in websites, providing recommendations for software tools or technologies, and suggesting best practices for the entire design and development process.Additionally, HYPERTECH will transfer knowledge on static or interactive visualization schemes and offer assistance to CTBTO’s staff on UX issues (communication strategy, storytelling, design, content creation and evaluation). Specialized recommendations will also be provided on data protection and security issues, as well as on interoperability and web compatibility.CTBTO is the international organization setting up the global verification system foreseen under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which is the international treaty banning any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion. The headquarters of CTBTO are in Vienna, Austria.

GDPR Compliance Consulting Services

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Parliament and the Council, was adopted on April 2016 and focuses on the protection of natural persons, with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.It came to replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy.GDPR increases organisations’ liabilities and imposes very high fines in cases of non-compliance with its requirements. The implementation of the GDPR aims to:According to the GDPR:GDPR goes into effect in 25 May 2018 and has international reach. So, when GDPR goes into effect, any organization that processes data of EU data subjects will encounter new, uniform data protection requirements or strict fines for non-compliance, 4% of annual turnover or €20 million per incident, whichever is higher.The project of preparing an organization to comply with the GDPR requirements is distinguished in the following phases:HYPERTECH with its specialized consultants is able to assist your organisation and provide all the necessary services for the compliance with GDPR requirements.

Citizen's portal for Kallithea municipality

Hypertech’s goal was to create a multi-channel approach for citizens as an interface to the Municipality of Kallithea and the public sector in general, that allows for active participation. Kallithea (Greek: Καλλιθέα) is the 8th largest municipality in Greece (100,641 inhabitants, 2011 census) and the 4th biggest in the Athens urban area. Additionally, it is the most densely populated municipality in Greece.Hypertech created:A proactive and personalized information hub that provides insights on public services of the city.A system that encourages participation of the citizen in decision-making and allows public debate, promoting the concept of participatory democracy and open cities.Citizens digital neighborhood that combines the most advanced features of social networks such as personal or corporate profiles and blogs, publishing and sharing of digital content, etc.Hypertech’s e-participation portal for the Municipality of Kallithea:Eases communication with the Municipal Authority and the Municipal Services and enhances the process of making requests and obtaining corresponding responses.Enhances citizens' access to knowledge through the use of upgraded services utilizing distance learning and digital educational contentEnhances local entrepreneurship, by offering online consulting and e-learningTechnologies used: Liferay, Moodle, BigBlueButton, JW Player, Kannel SMS Gateway.

Active Involvement of Hypertech Energy Labs in the "Energy Efficiency in Buildings" VoCamps

HYPERTECH Energy Labs' active involvement in the research towards an holistic approach of building energy performance incorporating business processes and occupancy modelling, continues with the participation in the 1st VoCamp on Energy Efficiency Modeling in Buildings held in Thessaloniki, Greece on 15-16th of November 2012. HYPERTECH Energy Labs' active involvement in the research towards an holistic approach of building energy performance incorporating business processes and occupancy modelling, continues with the participation in the 1st VoCamp on Energy Efficiency Modeling in Buildings held in Thessaloniki, Greece on 15-16th of November 2012.The Vocabulary Camp focuses on the delivery of ontologies that can be used for the analysis of the Building Performance in terms of its Energy Efficiency. Focus is given to domains, in which vocabularies and ontologies used are not mature yet. The ultimate goal is to deliver or enrich existing ontologies that can be used in various stages of the Building Lifecycle and especially on the early design stages. The 1st VoCamp addresses both Simulation & Management systems and ontologies will be created for multiple factors that contribute to the Energy Consumption in Buildings, having as main catalyst the human behavior and presence (building occupants).

PARITY Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: PARITY). PARITY addresses the “structural inertia” of DGs by delivering a transactive flexibility framework that will increase durability and efficiency of the electrical grid, while simultaneously enabling the adoption of more RES through enhanced realtime control of DER Flexibility combined with novel Active Network Management functionalities. PARITY will go beyond the traditional “top-down” grid management practices by delivering a unique local flexibility management platform through the seamless integration of IoT and Blockchain technologies. By delivering a smart-contract enabled market platform based on blockchain technology, PARITY will facilitate the efficient deployment of local micro-transactions and reward flexibility in a cost-reflective and symmetric manner, through price signals of higher spatio-temporal granularity based on real-time grid operational conditions. Finally, by deploying advanced IoT technology PARITY will offer distributed intelligence (DER profiling) and self-learning/ self-organization capabilities (automated real-time distributed control), orchestrated by cost reflective flexibility market signals generated by the blockchain LFM platform. Within PARITY, DER will form dynamic clusters that essentially comprise self-organized networks of active DER nodes, engaging in real-time aggregated & P2P energy/ flexibility transactions.HYPERTECH Energy Labs holds the role of the technical manager of the project and will coordinate the technical activities to be realized by an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by the CERTH-ITI (Greece) and actively involving CIRCE, Montajes Eléctricos Cuerva (CUERVA), URBENER and Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto (Spain), University of Nicosia (Cyprus), BFS SA, Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A. and QUE Technologies (Greece), MERIT Consulting House (Belgium), Checkwatt AB and Energilösningar Aktiebola (Sweden), Azienda Elettrica di Massagno (AEM), Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana and Hive Power Sagl (Switzerland), e7 Energie Markt Analyse GmbH (Austria).HYPERTECH will also lead WP on DER flexibility management & storage-as-a-service and it will offer its office premises – fully-equipped with sensor/ metering/ actuation devices – for pre-validation of the PARITY Building-as-a-Battery solution.PARITY is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LC-SC3-ES-1-2019 Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid (IA). The project has officially been launched on October 1st 2019, its duration is 42 months and it has a total budget of €9.3M.PARITY aims to enable the set-up and operation of local flexibility markets at the distribution network level via a holistic offering encompassing:

Interactive e-learning courses for KANEP-GSEE by HYPERTECH e-learning team

HYPERTECH has finished the development of 21 e-learning courses delivered for KANEP-GSEE. The courses development included innovative features like the production of forty two (42) tree minutes interactive videos with Articulate Storyline and two (2) thirty minutes interactive support videos for the use of e-Learning platform by learners and instructors.The courses address the following topics:KANEP-GSEE represents the Greek General Confederation of Labour in the area of Education and Lifelong learning, promoting the agenda of trade unions which includes employment policies, policies for combating social exclusion, and reinforcement of trade union presence in society.Check some of Interactive keywords video for KANEP-GSEE from HYPERTECH on Vimeo and YouTube.

HYPERTECH gets in to the smart agriculture domain

HYPERTECH has been awarded a contract for the development of EMPORIA, a next generation electronic marketplace-platform offering farmers in the Southeast Europe region, the ability to effectively identify, target and directly sell their goods to groups of end-consumers that have been traditionally served by middlemen in the value-chain. EMPORIA, through its powerful retail data sourcing, analysis and visualization functionality allows the farmer to apply intelligent product pricing and delivery strategies, based on state of the art machine learning algorithms & tools, with the aim of maximizing revenues and profits, minimizing logistics costs and build a trustfull direct relationship with the consumer. The system enables direct interaction between farmer and end-consumer and allows the farmer to apply effective customer relation management strategies through the provision of targeted offers to specific customers recommended by the system based on extensive consumer behavior profiling. The project is part of HYPERTECH's initiative to enter the field of smart agriculture and agrifood business.This project is funded by FRACTALS (Future Internet Enabled Agricultural Applications, an EU initiative), under the funding framework of the European Commission.

TIGON Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project: TIGON: Towards Intelligent DC-based hybrid Grids Optimizing the network performance). It focuses on the deployment and integration of intelligent DC-based grid architectures within the current energy system while providing ancillary services to the main network. To do so, TIGON proposes a four-level approach aiming at improving 1) Reliability, 2) Resilience 3) Performance, and 4) Cost Efficiency of hybrid grids through the development of an innovative portfolio of power electronic solutions and software systems and tools focused on the efficient monitoring, control and management of DC grids. These solutions will be demonstrated in two main Demo-Sites located in France and Spain, while additional use cases in the residential and urban railway sectors will act as niche markets for analysing and further solidifying the replication of TIGON developments after the project’s end. TIGON has involved for this purpose a multidisciplinary team of 15 partners from 8 different European Member States with a well-balanced consortium integrated by 7 non-profit entities and 7 companies. This partnership provides the required expertise from fields such as power electronics, cybersecurity, standardisation, etc. to design the solutions proposed within TIGON as well as the industrial capabilities required for the manufacturing, integration and validation of the whole TIGON concept.HYPERTECH Energy Labs is leading the activities related to the replication potential of the project. Moreover, along the whole project execution HYPERTECH Energy Labs works on providing a data quality plan and homogenising the collected information for its detailed evaluation and comparison.TIGON is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic: LC-SC3-ES-10-2020 - DC – AC/DC hybrid grid for a modular, resilient and high RES share grid development. The project has officially been launched on September 1st 2020, its duration is 48 months and it has a total budget of €7.9M.Main innovations within TIGON project will include smart transformers, innovative DC/DC converter topologies, PE for MVDC connection and DC protection systems. These developments will be supported by an adequate framework composed by modelling, simulation, control, optimization of generation and loads and security analysis activities. Only in this way will be TIGON able to demonstrate a comprehensive solution for DC-based hybrid grids that generates confidence on the market and lays down the foundations for their replication throughout the EU.

AEGIS Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: AEGIS) focusing on the the introduction of innovative big data technologies and solutions in critical domain sectors for public safety and personal security. Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by Fraunhofer FOKUS and actively involving GFT Italia and HDI Assicurazioni (Italy), KTH (Sweden), UBITECH (Cyprus), VIF (Austria), NTUA (Greece), EPFL (Switzerland) and Suite5 (United Kingdom). AEGIS will bring together data owners related to PSPS issues (linked to them directly or indirectly) from various sectors across Europe, indicatively from the public, insurance, automotive, environmental, criminal, juridical, health, agriculture, etc. sectors, as well as from Web 2.0 sources and enable their interrelation and interoperation. AEGIS aims to capitalise on modern technological breakthroughs in the areas of the data driven economy, and roll out a completely new value chain of interrelated data streams coming from diverse sectors and languages. The platform to be delivered and its service will reside on cross data technology innovations and data being delivered in different formats, as well in different states (e.g. structured/unstructured). This data blend will revolutionise the way PSPS organisations and stakeholders from other domains (e.g. insurance companies, etc.) work, showcasing how a huge but at the same time realistic economic, societal and environmental impact can be achieved by introducing a new economy of knowledge principle.This will be made possible through semantic links, based on agreed schemas that respect and extend where necessary the most commonly used ontologies in each area, and the usage of (or even extension of) data-vocabulary standards used by different sectors. At the same time, data from devices such as car sensors, wearable devices, smartphones, home automation systems, smart city infrastructures and other specific sensor data types that can be leveraged for PSPS services will be identified and a semantically aware structure will be defined in order to allow the homogenisation of sensory information, its efficient processing and its connection to more traditional data sources. AEGIS will develop a central platform to manage data collection, cleaning, semantic annotation and interlinking which will allow 3rd parties to explore, visualise and add data, enforcing the agreed schema and providing the infrastructure to support blockchain-enabled data transactions.The main outputs of the project will be novel services and applications that allow PSPS-related industries, organisations and stakeholders in general to generatemore factual and evidence-based analytics,improved decision support models, andnew business services focused on real-time collaboration, knowledge sharing and notifications amongst the key stakeholders, based on both (i) real-time data streams taking into consideration the data and temporal granularity aspects, and (ii) on batch processed data to extract analytics and intelligence to influence strategic mid-term and long-term operations planning.AEGIS aims to constitute the central node of a dynamic and expanding network of data contributors and consumers. The data services offered by the platform (e.g. integration, storage, semantic enrichment, analytics, visualisation etc.) are envisioned to constitute the main building block that organisations (or coalitions of organisations) will exploit in order both to contribute their own data (further enriching the plethora of “raw materials”) and to consume value added services that will innovate their everyday way of operation. Thus, AEGIS will be a constantly growing pool of cross-sectorial and multi-lingual linked data, offering services to and bringing together organisations of different activity fields and needs, following novel shared economy principle based on data exchange.In order to achieve the aforementioned target, the whole concept relies not only on technology integration activities that are necessary for the development of the technology offering, but also on actions that will bring domain shareholders together and infuse an open collaboration culture based on shared value creation and intelligence exchange. The latter are considered as the key elements to drive the project’s success and accelerate the market uptake of its results.

Location3 project - Innovative solutions for the media and entertainment industry

HYPERTECH continuing its long tradition in developing software solutions for the Media and Entertainment Industry, has been recently awarded in collaboration with CERTH-ITI, and Argonauts Audiovisual Productions a new contract by the Special Management and Implementation Authority for Research, Technological Development and Innovation Actions (MIA-RTDI) of the Greek Ministry of Development and Investments for a highly innovative project named LOCATION3.LOCATION3 aims in the development of a database and a search engine with special features that will support, at the level of pre-production of a film, the crucial function of location scouting (the detailed recording of points of interest for the shooting of film productions).LOCATION3 will be realised as an online platform that:The LOCATION3 consortium aims to expand with appropriate partnerships initially across Europe and in the future worldwide aiming to meet the needs of the entertainment industries in terms of location scouting internationally.

ACCEPT Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project: ACCEPT - ACtive Communities & Energy Prosumers for the energy Transition).Demand flexibility from residential buildings is the main untapped source of flexibility currently in the market and promises significant flexibility potential, especially taking into account the electrification of heat and transport mega-trends. Energy communities are a promising organizational vehicle for involving citizens – who directly control residential demand - in the energy transition, but currently lack the necessary tools to exploit the available opportunities and create financially viable operations based on the provision of services that citizens want. ACCEPT aims to fill this gap by delivering a digital toolbox that energy communities can use to: i) offer innovative and desired digital services, complementing their existing non-digital services to their members and customers, and ii) gain access to revenue streams that can financially support their operations and ensure longevity and well-functioning of the community itself. To achieve this aim, the ACCEPT consortium is framing the citizen engagement and business modelling activities in the same priority as the technical development ones. Their intertwined implementation will be the critical success factor for the delivery of the ACCEPT solution as a Minimum Viable Product that has already passed preliminary market testing and financial viability checks.Hypertech Energy Labs holds the role of project coordinator of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners involving Fundacion Circe Centro de Investigacion de Recursos y Consumos Energeticos, La Solar Energia Sociedad Cooperativa and Viesgo Distribucion Electrica SL (Spain), GECO Global IVS (Denmark), QUE Technologies Kefalaiouchiki Etaireia, Ethnico Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anartysis, Mytilinaios Anonimi Etaireia (Greece), Witside International Markets Limited (Cyprus), University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (Ireland), Rina Consulting SPA (Italy), Bedrijfsbureau Energie Samen BV and Cooperatief Energie Dienstenbedrijf Rivierenland BA (Netherlands) and Azienda Elettrica Massagno (AEM) SA.HYPERTECH will also lead WPs on project management and quality assurance, prosumer/ building-level modelling and optimization tools, cooperation and collaboration activities, data management plan, ethics manual, RRI reporting and ethics management report, business scenarios – use cases – requirements and system architecture description.ACCEPT is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LC-SC3-EC-3-2020 - Consumer engagement and demand response. The project has officially been launched on January 1st 2021, its duration is 42 months and it has a total budget of €7.5M.Penetration of renewables is a no-regrets option for energy system decarbonization. Despite their benefits for the energy system, the grid integration of variable RES presents major challenges in matching their non-deterministic output to electricity demand. Resolving this necessitates the deployment and penetration of several solutions, a key on being demand response, which in turn depends on the role of prosumers with regards to their engagement with the energy system. Demand flexibility from residential buildings is the main untapped source of flexibility currently in the market and promises significant flexibility potential, especially taking into account the electrification of heat and transport mega-trends. Energy communities are a promising organizational vehicle for involving citizens – who directly control residential demand - in the energy transition, but currently lack the necessary tools to exploit the available opportunities and create financially viable operations based on the provision of services that citizens want. ACCEPT aims to fill this gap by delivering a digital toolbox that energy communities can use to:

3D models of Hagia Sophia at Istanbul (Constantinople) for the Foundation of the Hellenic World

HYPERTECH has been awarded to implement scenarios and 3D models of Hagia Sophia at Istanbul (Constantinople) for the Foundation of the Hellenic World.The project aims to develop the virtual digital representation of the church of St. Sophia monument in Istanbul, as it was in the period of 11th to 12th century.Project contains the following basic activities:

H2020 - NobelGrid Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a large R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: NOBELGRID) focusing on the development of innovative tools and novel business models that can facilitate the wide deployment of Smart Grids and Demand Response around Europe. Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by ETRA I+D and actively involving NTUA and AUEB (Greece), ALGINET, BDIGITAL, SURTEL (Spain), UNINOVA (Portugal), FRAUNHOFER, DERlab (Germany), AIT (Austria), Engineering SpA, ASM TERNI (Italy), ECOPOWER, FINNOVAREGIO (Belgium), SICS (Sweden), ECRO (Romania), Carbon COOP, University of Manchester, GOODWOLFE (United Kingdom) and DNV-GL/ KEMA (Netherlands).NOBELGRID is a light-house project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LCE 7 – 2014: Distribution grid and retail market. The project has officially been launched on January 1st 2015, its duration is 42 months and it has a total budget of €13,9M.The strategic goal of the NOBELGRID project is to develop, deploy and evaluate advanced tools and ICT services for Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and electric cooperatives, enabling active consumers’ involvement in demand response schemas and addressing demand flexibility as a key parameter on energy markets through new business models for Aggregators and Energy Service Companies (ESCOs).Through the dual-use of telecommunication networks, and by validating the integration of distributed renewable generation and demand response systems, NOBEL GRID will offer advanced services, not only for DSO’s but also for all actors involved in the distribution grid operation and retail electricity market in order to ensure that EU citizens will benefit from better prices, more secure and stable grids and renewable electricity supply.Five electricity cooperatives and non-profit entities will test new business models and tools for DER integration, Demand Response, Predictive Maintenance and flexible low-cost Smart Metering. The demonstration of the project results will take place under real-life conditions, with the participation of at least 20.000 energy consumers in the 5 pilot testbeds of the project.The involvement of Hypertech Energy Labs in the NobelGrid project is mainly focused on the configuration and demonstration of innovative solutions for Context based demand flexibility profilng, Consumers' flexibility analysis, Demand Response strategies optimization and Human-Centric Lighting and HVAC automation.

Virtual reality museum experience by HYPERTECH, MOMus and CERTH/ITI under the 2gether project

HYPERTECH is proudly participating as project coordinator and member of the consortium of the 2gether project. The project was launched in February 2020 with the vision to develop a cutting edge and state of the art technological and conceptual framework for the accessibility of the general public to art. The project is funded by the Greek National General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) with a three-year horizon of delivery. In recent years, European cultural heritage organizations, as well as companies active in the field, have realized the need to abandon the traditional passive ways of presenting cultural heritage and turn to creating new, more attractive presentation methods that will allow the active participation of visitors. Recent technological developments in both mobile devices and wireless networks offer innumerable possibilities to users, while opening a new field of research for the creation of innovative applications and services.Combining the possibilities of producing and sharing digital information provided by modern technologies, a new field of opportunity is created for cultural institutions to reach the public, but also to interact with it in a creative and innovative way. In this way, new channels of approach are created, providing targeted information and messages to users, while promoting their active participation in the dissemination of cultural heritage.2gether is a partnership of the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki - MOMus, the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and Hypertech aiming to design and deliver a 3D walkthrough of the MOMus -and not only- exhibition in an environment of Virtual Reality. In parallel, 2gether will establish a real time Crowdsourcing platform to promote young artists and their work while at the same time collecting the audience’s reaction and preferences.The main objective of 2gether is to:

H2020 - MOEEBIUS Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been recently awarded with a new contract from the European Commission with the aim to develop a Holistic Energy Performance Optimization Framework that enhances current (passive and active building elements) modelling approaches and delivers innovative simulation tools which (i) deeply grasp and describe real-life building operation complexities in accurate simulation predictions that significantly reduce the “performance gap” and (ii) enhance the continuous optimization of building energy performance as a means to further mitigate and reduce the identified “performance gap” in real-time or through retrofitting.Fifteen partners from 10 European countries - Greece (Hypertech Energy Labs), Spain (Tecnalia, Solintel), Czech Republic (Honeywell), Ireland (Tyndall, Cork Institute of Technology), Netherlands (Almende), Germany (Fraunhofer IBP), Serbia (Belit, Beogradske Elektrane), United Kingdom (KiWi Power, Grindrop), Portuqal (ISQ, City of Mafra) and Poland (ASM) - will work together for 42 months in the €7.3M MOEEBIUS project. The MOEEBIUS Framework comprises the configuration and integration of an innovative suite of end-user tools and applications enabling:Improved Building Energy Performance Assessment on the basis of enhanced Building Energy Performance Simulation models that allow for more accurate representation of the real-life complexities of the building,Precise allocation of detailed performance contributions of critical building components, for directly assessing actual performance against predicted values and easily identifying performance deviations and further optimization needs,Real-time building performance optimization (during the operation and maintenance phase) including advanced simulation-based control and real-time selfdiagnosis features, Optimized retrofitting decision making on the basis of improved and accurate LCA/ LCC-based performance predictions andReal-time peak-load management optimization at the district level.Through the provision of a robust technological framework MOEEBIUS will enable the creation of attractive business opportunities for the MOEEBIUS end-users (ESCOs, Aggregators, Maintenance Companies and Facility Managers) in evolving and highly competitive energy services markets. The MOEEBIUS framework will be validated in 3 large-scale pilot sites, located in Portugal, UK and Serbia, incorporating diverse building typologies, heterogeneous energy systems and spanning diverse climatic conditions.

Hypertech signs new service contract with ESPON EGTC organisation

Hypertech has been recently awarded with a service contract to deliver a new creative design proposal for the ESPON website.The main objective of the project is to design a modern, innovative and interactive website for ESPON to communicate with the relevant stakeholders and disseminate European territorial evidence resulting from the ESPON activities.To achieve this, the project will target the following goals:Enhance user experience, both for specialist and non-specialist audiences, and make ESPON more “sociable”.Build an informative and widely accessible website as well as modern in style and communication.Enable better integration of research performed by ESPON in policy making.Build visibility based on original and high quality content.Promote ESPON as evidence-driven reference point for policy use of pan-European territorial evidence in Europe.ESPON started in 2002 and has continued since then building a pan-European knowledge base related to territorial dynamics. The ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme is financed by the ERDF, as well as by the 28 EU Member States and 4 Partner States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The Programme plays the specific role in supporting policy development institutional capacity, effective policy making and efficient public administration with European territorial evidence and in doing so pursue the following overarching mission.Since 2002 ESPON communicates with many different stakeholders, ranging from scientists to policy makers, politicians, professionals, media, and at local, regional, national and European level. This communication shall further expand and the outreach of territorial evidence becomes even wider. The redesign of the ESPON website plays an important role in this context.

HYPERTECH at the Local Energy Communities workshop

HYPERTECH (project coordinator of MERLON H2020 project) actively participated at the workshop on Local Energy Communities, organised on 15 May 2019 in Brussels by the H2020 projects COMPILE, MERLON, MUSE GRIDS, STORY with the support of the BRIDGE initiative.On 15 May 2019, the Local Energy Communities Workshop took place in Brussels, Belgium, at VLEVA Auditorium. The event was centered around the implementation of local energy communities around Europe, focusing specifically on the activities of four EU-funded projects: MUSE GRIDS, MERLON, COMPILE and STORY, all supported by the BRIDGE initiative.Hosted and moderated by Martin Watson, from Prospex Institute, the day was introduced by a keynote speech delivered by Jan Steinkohl, Policy Officer at the European Commission. Participants then heard a brief presentation of the four projects from their coordinators, who shared the challenges encountered and key aspects of success of their work: Andrej Gubina from Compile, Antonis Papanikolaou from HYPERTECH, Alessandra Cuneo from MUSE Grids and Mia Ala-Juusela from STORY. Among the common challenges, the concept of energy community emerged strongly in all presentations.After a coffee break, a panel discussion saw Leen Peeters from TH!nk-E, Jure Ratej from ETREL, Torsten Knop from Innogy, Brittney Elzarei from The European Association for Storage of Energy and Stanislas d’Hebermont from RES.Coop debating and exchanging views on the role of technology integration in local energy communities. Participants were very involved in the interaction, motivated by the inputs from moderator Martin Watson. Overall, the discussion floated around the importance of having variable renewables entering the system more and more and focusing on affordable technologies with a clear return for consumers, among which energy storage.In the afternoon, participants were asked to take a more proactive and dynamic role, participating in two out of four roundtables proposed by the event. Technology, regulation, economics, deployment and social acceptance were the four macro-themes that were discussed in each corner, addressing the challenges found in each of these contexts for local energy communities and how to overcome them. Each roundtable was managed by two moderators, each with their own style of brainstorming and interactions, which lay the ground for very interesting exchanges. Moderators then shared the outcomes of the discussions that took place in the two shifts of roundtables that they hosted.

EcoInnovation - ECOPROWINE Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been recently awarded with a new technology demonstration project contract with the European Commission, as one of the main partners of an international consortium comprised of renowned academic and industrial organizations from Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, Portugal and Bulgaria.The ECOPROWINE ("Life Cycle perspective for Low Impact Winemaking and Application in EU of Eco-innovative Technologies") project is co-funded by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and innovation of the European Commision in the framework of the 2012 Eco-Innovation Work Programme. ECOPROWINE is the only, among all awarded projects under the 2012 Eco-Innovation Call for Proposals, that incorporates Greek participation and Hypertech Energy Labs proudly lead Greece’s representation in the 2012 Eco-Innovation programme by concentrating over 80% of the total funding allocated to Greece for 2012. The starting date of the 3-year long project is the 3rd of September, 2012, and its total budget will be approximately 1M €.ECOPROWINE aims at minimizing the environmental impacts of wine production, by assessing and optimizing common wine making processes adopted in pan-European level by wine producers and proposing cost-effective and efficient improvements towards optimizing the environmental performance of the wine-making business sector throughout the whole life cycle chain of wine-making processes and achieving significant environmental impact by reducing energy consumption by 15%, water consumption by 30%, raw materials use by 25% and the generation of waste and CO2 emissions by 40% and 20% respectively.To this end, Hypertech Energy Labs will lead the development of the ECOPROWINE Self Assessment Framework, aiming at analyzing and evaluating the environmental performance of alterrnative contemporary wine production processes during their full lifecycle (from grape farming to commercialization stage) against specific environmental performance indicators and comparing them (benchmarking) with prototype optimized reference processes, promoted as a roadmap for achieving high environmental benefits through their adaptation by wine producers. The self-assessment framework will be properly designed in order to simplify the tasks associated with the query, acquisition, extraction and analysis of environmental impacts information, thereby enabling wine producers to address issues of uncertainty when devising policies, strategies and action plans. In this respect, the key process areas are identified and an optimum environmental performance goal is assigned to each step on the basis of benchmarking with optimized winemaking processes, in terms of CO2 emissions, energy consumption, water consumption, etc. The overall aim of the self-assessment framework is to properly guide wine-makers towards identifying poorly performing areas of their wine-making process and tailor specific action plans for improving the environmental performance of their wineries, given their individual needs and overall constraints in terms of investment costs, technology availability and environmental responsibility.Ultimately, ECOPROWINE will offer the opportunity to wine producers all over the EU, to apply for, obtain and use the ECOPROWINE Environmental Label in their brand products, thus increasing their commercial competitive advantage, visibility and market share, since more than 40% of EU consumers tend to make their purchasing decisions upon their concerns about environmental issues.The pilot application of the ECOPROWINE Self Assessment and Label Registration Framework will initially involve 105 wineries from the consortium member countries, including 20 wineries from Greece (mainly Northern Greece), while the business exploitation and commercialization of the project results foresees the engagement of at least 560 wineries/customers of the ECOPROWINE Assessment and Labeling Framework.

Advanced Search Engine of Cultural Content for Mobile Devices Using Augmented Reality Technology

Trek Innovations SA, the Thessaloniki based affiliated company of HYPERTECH, implemented and successfully completed the R&D project entitled “Mobile Search: Advanced Search Engine of Cultural Content for Mobile Devices Using Augmented Reality Technology”.The project aimed to create a sophisticated engine for mobile devices, for the promotion and dissemination of the cultural heritage, using state-of-the-art 3D object search, routing recommendations and augmented reality technologies. The implemented project services target to provide, among others:Advanced visual search and retrieval services on multimedia cultural resourcesRecommendations on alternative indoor tours or outdoor cultural/touristic routesPersonalised and adaptive user experience assisted by attractive augmented reality techniquesThe produced project results were successfully evaluated and validated in two representative pilot cases:Indoor scenario, took place in the exhibition halls of the State Museum of Contemporary ArtOutdoor scenario, organised and executed in the historical centre of ThessalonikiMobile Search, was a collaborative R&D project funded by the Hellenic General Secretariat for Research & Technology (GSRT).

FP7 - OS4ES Grant

HYPERTECH has been awarded a major Smart Energy Grids R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: OS4ES) as part of an international consortium of prominent research and academic organizations like the German Research Foundation of Power Systems and Power Economics (FGH), the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Fundacion TECNALIA Research & Innovation as well as renowned industrial partners like Stedin, T-Systems, it4power Gmbh and KONCAR KET. OS4ES is a STREP project (“Open System for Energy Management”) co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Programme / Objective 2013.6.1 “Smart Energy Grids”. The OS4ES project will be coordinated by FGH. It started on July 1st, 2014, its duration will be 36 months and it has a total budget of 4,3M€.The mass and ever increasing presence of grid-connected distributed energy resources (DERs) causes a number of adverse effects on the reliability and robustness of the electricity grid. Their distributed and intermittent power generation capabilities and novel characteristics such as energy storage introduce new challenges to the Smart Gridand severely complicate or even compromise the network management by distribution system operators (DSOs).The OS4ES project aims to tackle this problem by closing the current information, communication and cooperation gap between DERs and DSOs. It will provide an Open System for Energy Services for Smart Grid actors (DSOs, BRPs, Retailers etc. acting as aggregators) to enable dynamic and automated integration of millions of DERs, including electrical vehicles, private or commercial PV plants, small/medium /large wind power plants as well as privately and commercially owned CHPs, into the electrical grid. This open system with plug & play interfaces based on international standards will provide Smart Grid actors with an ideal means of monitoring and controlling the enormously high numbers of DERs on-the-fly that otherwise would need to be addressed “manually” one by one in a very ineffective and time-consuming way.The Open System for Energy Management will be based on the Service Oriented Architecture model to offer key services to Smart Grid actors with unparalleled scalability and interoperability. Services will include the coordination, reservation and exploitation of aggregated DER flexibility through the formation of Virtual Power Plants and will be offered as cloud-based grid management services to DSOs and Aggregators for Smart Grid robustness and reliability enhancement.The OS4ES system will be based on standardized and interoperable communication interfaces, as well as generic interfaces among DERs that produce, consume or store electrical energy and Smart Grid actors, like DSOs, Aggregators, BRPs, etc. Novel business models, use cases and service scenarios will be explored during the project based on the exploitation of DERs for the optimal management of Smart Energy Grids enabled by the Open System. Extensive laboratory tests and focused field validation in carefully selected urban areas in the Netherlands will be conducted to demonstrate the Open System’s value to key Smart Grid stakeholders and the interested public.To this end, an OS4ES Industrial User Group has been already established before the project initiation and will be further extended during its execution. Founding members include Energinet.dk, Ericsson Croatia, Hamburg Energie, Phoenix Contact, Senertec, IDS, E.ON Ruhrgas, IFAK and ABB Switzerland. User Group members will provide feedback to project work and will in turn profit from access to project results before publication. Since the project aims to steer future standardization efforts, this privileged access will enable them to gain a head start in the development of Smart Grid enabling components before respective standards (e.g. IEC 61850-7-420) are released in their final versions.

SENDER Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project SENDER: Sustainable Consumer engagement and demand response)A key feature of the SENDER solution will be its pro-activeness, characterized by the fact that, unlike current demand-response systems, consumers will not react to signals received from the market and grid operators. Sensor data from the consumer’s premises and the environment will be collected and processed in a cyber-secure way to identify typical pro-/consumption patterns based on artificial intelligence technologies. The clustering of identified characteristics according to gender and climatic conditions, values, will allow creating highly accurate, predictive consumption/load patterns of digital twins that represent various consumer/prosumer profiles. The acquired sensor data will also be processed so that they can be used for applications in the areas of home automation, supervision, security, convenience and assisted living. The open interface among the actors and services together with the extensive testing and validation will enhance the interoperability and interchangeability of the different components of the developed solution. This will make it possible to use legacy systems and/or thirdparty applications and enables new business models that will be analysed during this project. Some of them focused on the role of the DSO as a facilitator; others focusing on energy communities and cooperatives as local actors that will actively take over the role of aggregators of their members´ assets. The envisaged co-creation process will also be continuously utilized to actively prepare this kind of community engagement during and after the project.Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, actively involving Smart Innovation Norway, NXTech and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), Anonymous Industrial Trading Company of Information and New Technology, Paragon and QUE technologies (Greece), Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (Italy), Trialog and Euroquality (France), University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Weizer Energy and Innovation Centre and Austrian Institute of Technologies (Austria), Ecoserveis and Distribution of Electrical Energy of Alginet (Spain) and Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland).Hypertech as a main partner will participate to the solution development by participating to the definition of the architecture of the system and to the package solution definition. Hypertech will also adapt and design the IoT framework that is responsible for information collection and analyse the data to improve the solution and participate to the monitoring of the demonstration sites. Hypertech will be responsible for developing the flexibility solution for demand response based on previous projects and ensure its interoperabilitySENDER is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic: LC-SC3-EC-3-2020 - Consumer engagement and demand response. The project has officially been launched on September 1st 2020, its duration is 48 months and it has a total budget of €6.7M.SENDER’s overall aim is to develop and test the next generation of energy service applications for demand response, home-automation and -convenience addressed in the topic LC-SC3-EC-3-2020 “Consumer Engagement and Demand Response”. SENDER takes into account that consumers/prosumers are at the heart of the energy market by engaging them directly in a co-creation process with other actors from the energy domain during the design, development and utilization of pro-active demand response mechanisms. These mechanisms will be paired with cross-sectoral, value-adding services that will be defined according to consumer/prosumer preferences. SENDER builds upon the results of several completed H2020 projects and creates a strong connection with ongoing ones. Moreover, SENDER aims for a very high degree of replicability based on the insights and experiences from the three pilots that are planned.

Cooperation 2011 - ECOBUILDING Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a major R&D contract from the Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Project Acronym: ECOBUILDING), as part of a consortium comprised of renowned industrial and research partners like CERTH-ITI, PRISMA, TERNA, Atlantis Engineering, KLEEMANN, Euromedica and the Centre for Renewable Energy and Savings. HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a major R&D contract from the Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Project Acronym: ECOBUILDING), as part of a consortium comprised of renowned industrial and research partners like CERTH-ITI, PRISMA, TERNA, Atlantis Engineering, KLEEMANN, Euromedica and the Centre for Renewable Energy and Savings.The ECOBUILDING project starting date is the 15th of October 2013, its duration is 24 months and its total budget approaches 1,9M€.The ECOBUILDING project will research and develop a highly novel energy-saving integrated system that aims to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions in enterprise buildings by incorporating in the operational phase of a building, a modular, extendable and non-intrusive smart sensor system (consisting of heterogeneous wireless sensors and devices) and will provide an effective mechanism for determining and predicting occupancy in critical building zones towards optimal adaptation of building assets to the overall enterprise energy needs. To this end, the project will deliver an integrated building automation system that will be capable to effectively and efficiently monitor the occupant behavior in order to create intelligent energy profiles (generalized and personalized). Moreover, ECOBUILDING will allow inherently the optimum alignment of building energy needs on occupant operations related to both primary business-related and individual preferences taking into account end-user comfort. The proposed framework will investigate the use of novel algorithms for analyzing and extracting building dynamic behavior through its occupancy in various zones and levels based on the combination of low-cost infrared and other smart metering sensors (e.g. RFID, movement sensors, etc.) that will enable optimal generalized and individual energy profiles based on the investigation of the most important business-related primary activities.Furthermore, the proposed project will address the lack of energy-awareness tools for both building managers and occupants by designing and delivering a fully interactional framework that provides incentives for improved energy saving behavior. To cope with this need, various visualization tools will be designed and developed for both types of building stakeholders, i.e. occupants and building managers. Building managers tools, known as Building Management Systems (BMS), will be enhanced using Visual Analytics technologies to better detect and analyze potential sources of high energy consumption in their building zones, whereas use of personalized web-based services for building occupants will be delivered mainly through monitors (e.g. tablet devices integrated in the building environment) and/or mobile devices (e.g. PDAs). In both cases, the proposed innovative framework will allow each building user, including the facility managers to adapt during building operation its energy performance by providing optimal balance among consumption, business performance and occupants comfort level.

D^2EPC Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project: D^2EPC: Next-generation Dynamic Digital EPCs for Enhanced Quality and User Awareness)D^2EPC aims to set the grounds for the next generation of dynamic Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for buildings. The proposed framework sets its foundations on the smart-readiness level of the buildings and the corresponding data collection infrastructure and management systems. It is fed by operational data and adopts the ‘digital twin’ concept to advance Building Information Modelling, calculates a novel set of energy, environmental, financial and human comfort/ wellbeing indicators, and through them the EPC classification of the building in question. To accomplish the above aims and objectives, the D2EPC framework will be demonstrated in 6 sites, while its 12 partners coming from 7 European countries will collaborate and provide their expertise and resources within the 36 months of the project’s lifetime.HYPERTECH Energy Labs are leading the activities in relation to the elicitation of indicators that impact the overall dynamic building performance from the user’s comfort and wellbeing point of view and for the deploying the entire IoT framework that is responsible for information collection from the building towards dynamic EPCs through a non-intrusive performance measurement and monitoring, leveraging on its existing HYP Gateway. Further to that, HYPERTECH Energy Labs undertake the activities for extending the D2EPC digital platform with the performance benchmarking tool and verification and credibility tool under one integrated toolkit. D^2EPC is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic: LC-SC3-EE-5-2018-2019-2020. The project has officially been launched on September 1st 2020, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €2.9M.The implementation of the proposed project is also anticipated to foster the energy saving consciousness of buildings’ users, through their regular information on the actual energy performance of their buildings and suitable incentivisation. The proposed D^2EPC scheme is expected to transform EPCs into a user-friendly, reliable and cost-effective informative tool for both the wide public (building users, occupants, owners, etc.) and professionals (building managers, engineers, designers, etc.), as well as to establish the grounds for turning EPCs registries into consistent policy feeding mechanisms.

COGITO Grant

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project: COGITO: COnstruction-phase diGItal Twin mOdel). COGITO aims to materialise the digitalisation benefits for the construction industry by harmonising Digital Twins with the Building Information Model and building a digital Construction 4.0 tool-box to unleash the untapped potential in productivity improvement and increased safety.Hypertech Energy Labs holds the role of project coordinator of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners involving University College London and The University of Edinburgh (UK), Aarhus Universitet (Denmark), Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis, QUE Technologies Kefalaiouchiki Etaireia and Olympia Odos Concession Company SA for the Motorway Elefsina-Korinthos-Patra-Pyrgos-TS (Greece), Universidad Politechnica de Madrid and Ferroval Agroman SA (Spain), BOC Asset Management GMBH and Phomberg Sersa Rail Holding GMBH (Austria), Novitech AS (Slovakia), ASM Centrum Badan i Analiz Rynku SP. Z O. O. (Poland)HYPERTECH will also lead WPs on quality assurance, data management, system architecture, IoT data pre-processing module, data transformation for 3D BIM rendering and Construction of digital Twin 3D Visualizations module.COGITO is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LC-EEB-08-2020- Digital Building Twins (RIA). The project will officially be launched on Noverber 1st 2020, its duration is 36 months and it has a total budget of €5.9M.COGITO considers the construction phase embedded and a part of the construction project design and lifecycle thread, rather than in isolation. In that way, upstream information like the as designed model is employed as input. The as-build model evolves getting updated regularly (e.g. daily) as part of the construction progress to become the as-is model in post-construction and after handover and closeout. In that sense, in addition to the value brought to stakeholders from the various applications, it also conceptually and practically contributes to bridging the lifecycle interoperability gap. This is particularly important from an outcomes-based perspective, as it does not only contribute to construction-level efficiencies and impact, but ultimately ensures high quality of the built asset, which is linked to increased value and lower risks for all stakeholders involved.Such a model allows: (a) construction stakeholders to have live access to information about the state of the construction site provided by real-time monitoring of worker, equipment, tool and material monitoring (aligned with the lean construction principles); (b) evolution of the BIM model as the process evolves to mirror the as-build status through input from a multitude of reality capture tools; (c) automated and real-time geometric tolerance compliance checking (using data acquired by robotic systems, like drones) with communication to stakeholders (including Building Control authorities); (d) on-the-field guidance to construction workers – through wearable device applications – and real-time asset monitoring for real-time safety management; (f) more efficient planning and scheduling of construction steps with optimal resource (human, material, equipment, etc.) allocation including realtime readjustment to counter contingencies or actual discrepancies between plans and construction, (g) documenting and evolving the digital infrastructure of the construction project and create functional tests to ensure proper installation and programming.COGITO relies on a number of key components in order to achieve its objectives:

BIMERR GRANT

HYPERTECH Energy Labs have been awarded a new R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: BIMERR). BIMERR will design and develop an ICT-enabled Renovation 4.0 toolkit comprising tools for AEC stakeholder support throughout the energy efficiency renovation process of existing buildings. It will enforce semantic interoperability among its own tools as well as with third-party ICT tools to enable seamless BIM creation and information exchange among the AEC community in an effort to boost the rapid adoption of BIM in renovating of the existing EU building stock.Hypertech Energy Labs constitute a leading member of an international consortium of renowned academic and industrial partners, led by Fraunhofer (Germany) and actively involving Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), CONKAT and University of Peloponnese (Greece), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), UBITECH and Suite5 (Cyprus), MERIT Consulting (Belgium), Xylem and BOC Asset Management (Austria), GlassUp (Italy), Budimex (Poland), Exergy and Heriot-Watt University (UK) and NOVITECH (Slovakia).BIMERR is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme/ Topic LC-EEB-02-2018 - Building information modelling adapted to efficient renovation (RIA). The project has officially been launched on January 1st 2019, its duration is 45 months and it has a total budget of €7M.Building Information Modelling is a critical element in the digitalization of the construction industry, which is necessary in order to unleash huge efficiency and productivity improvements. BIMERR will design and develop a Renovation 4.0 toolkit which will comprise tools to support renovation stakeholders throughout the renovation process of existing buildings, from project conception to delivery. It comprises tools for the automated creation of enhanced building information models, a renovation decision support system to aid the designer in exploring available renovation options through an the accurate estimation of renovation impact on building performance as well as a process management tool that will optimize the design and on-site construction process toward optimal coordination and minimization of renovation time and cost. At the heart of the BIMERR toolkit lies an interoperability framework, which will enforce semantic interoperability among BIMERR tools as well as with third-party legacy ICT tools to enable seamless BIM creation and information exchange among AEC stakeholders in an effort to enhance the rapid adoption of BIM in renovation of the existing EU building stock. The BIMERR toolkit will be validated and demonstrated in 4 buildings in 3 European Member States. Two buildings will be used for pre-validation and implementation refinement and the refined BIMERR toolkit will support the actual renovation design and works in one residential building in Poland and a second one in Spain. The assessment and evaluation of the BIMERR toolkit after these real-life activities will feed material into two supporting horizontal project activities: i) dissemination and exploitation of project outcomes through the creation of best practice examples of BIMERR use that will guide further replication effort, and ii) promotion of BIMERR outcome to the most relevant standardization bodies.

FP7 - INERTIA Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been awarded a major Smart Energy Grids R&D contract from the European Commission (Project Acronym: INERTIA), as part of an international consortium of renowned industrial partners like Engineering- Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Enel.si, Hellenic Public Power Coorporation S.A., INDESIT, CNET Svenska AB and prominent research and academic organizations like CERTH-ITI and Fundacion TECNALIA Research & Innovation.INERTIA is a STREP project (“Integrating Active, Flexible and Responsive Tertiary Prosumers into a Smart Distribution Grid”) co-funded by the EC under the FP7 Programme / Objective 2011.6.1 “Smart Energy Grids”. For a second year in the row (as in the case of Adapt4EE project proposal), Hypertech Energy Labs are part of the top ranked proposal among all others submitted in the specific call objective. The INERTIA project starting date is the 1ST of October 2012 and with a duration of 36 months and a total budget of 5,3M€.INERTIA will introduce the Internet of Things/Services principles to the Distribution Grid Control and DSM Operations. It will develop an overlay network for efficient coordination and active grid control, running on top of the existing energy grid infrastructures and incorporating high levels of distributed intelligence within autonomous and semantically enhanced Prosumer Hubs (local consumers and producers). This way, it will address the present “structural inertia” of the Distribution Grid by introducing more active elements combined with the necessary control and distributed coordination mechanisms.INERTIA will deliver multilevel logical nodes corresponding to dynamic clusters of semantically enhanced DER (local generation and consumption). Within INERTIA, DERs will constitute active and flexible components carrying contextual knowledge of their local environment. DER will form dynamic clusters comprising self-organized networks of active nodes that will efficiently distribute and balance global and local intelligence. This DER self-organized overlay network will allow a seamless management and control of the active grid and the optimal exploration of single and aggregated prosumer capacity (generation and consumption) to participate in energy balancing and other DG related services. Global Operational & Technical Distrbution Grid parameters will be seamlessly and continuously translated into real-time Local DSM Strategies.INERTIA will offer fine grained control even higher than existing Direct (DLC) and Indirect (Price Based) Control Programs, while also securing privacy and autonomy on the local level, fully respecting prosumer preferences and needs. Moreover INERTIA will promote the efficient integration of flexible demand with distributed generation within the smart grid as the mean to tackle the problems resulting from the continuous and massive integration of distributed intermittent and non-controllable renewable sources. INERTIA will also deliver innovative tools for the Aggregators and propose viable Business Models for flexible service-oriented contracts distributing potential benefits to all stakeholders involved in the DSM value chain.

Interinstitutional framework contract for the Development of Static & Interactive Information and Storytelling Products

HYPERTECH as part of a Consortium with European Service Network (ESN) Belgium was assigned a four-year interinstitutional framework contract (06/2020-05/2024) to consult eight EU Bodies (European Food Safety Authority – EFSA, European Securities and Markets - ESMA, Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications - BEREC, European Union Agency for Railways - ERA, European Investment Bank - EIB, Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking - BBI JU, Single Resolution Board - SRB, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority - EIOPA) on communication, web design & user experience, as well as provide consultation on digital media strategy.More specifically, the main tasks to be performed by HYPERTECH during the contract include among others the consultancy, conception, design, development & implementation of various digital communication products such as:Additionally, HYPERTECH supports the EU Bodies to strengthen their digital presence by providing:

Contract signature with DG REFORM to provide Technical support in strengthening the capacity of the Cyprus Tax Department to analyse and implement court decisions on tax matters

HYPERTECH undertook (July 2020) and has been implementing (until July 2021) along with Everis Belgium, a service contract with the DG REFORM of the European Commission to deliver technical consultancy to Cyprus Tax Department (CTD).The contract aims in assisting the CTD for the provision of:technical and functional specifications for the development of an e-library,collection and analysis of domestic tax court decisions of tax tribunals, Administrative and Supreme Court with relevant links to EU legislative acts and case law of CJEU.Its scope ranges from background research to review existing literature, documentation and tax information systems, to business analysis and definition of requirements, proposing a detailed plan for the development of an e-library, specifically a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution and concluding by the design and delivery of a comprehensive training program that will secure proper maintenance and update of the e-library.HYPERTECH aims for the design of an effective tool that will help CTD define, record, organize, classify and eventually easily locate and recall, all tax related court decisions. HYPERTECH will deliver the proposed functional, non-functional and technical specifications of the new system, as well as the security requirements and a selection of best practices for its implementation.

H2020 - Heat4Cool Grant

Hypertech Energy Labs have been recently awarded with a new contract from the European Commission with the aim to develop an innovative, efficient and cost-effective solution to optimize the integration of a set of rehabilitation systems in order to meet the net-zero energy standards in buildings. Heat4Cool develops, integrates and demonstrates an easy to install and highly energy efficient solution for building retrofitting.Smart building retrofitting complemented by solar assisted heat pumps integrated within a self-correcting intelligent building energy management system.Twelve partners from 9 European countries - Greece (Hypertech Energy Labs), Spain (Tecnalia, Solintel, Symelec), Italy (Politecnico di Milano), Germany (Sortech), Hungary (ThermoWatt), United Kingdom (Sunamp, AES), Bulgaria (Balkanika Energy), Poland (IZNAB) and Belgium (European Heat Pump Association) - will work together for 48 months in the €7.5M Heat4Cool project.Residential buildings use a significant amount of energy and Heat4Cool project argues that the best energy efficiency savings can only be achieved through integrated physical solutions always in combination with the improvement of the building operation, which is highly related with user behavior and control strategy. The proposed solution is founded on three developments:The non-technical part of the Heat4Cool project will involve analysis of retrofitting solutions and existing technologies from current running projects, exploitation of the developed solutions and their integration into the Heat4Cool project, the increase of replicability of the envisaged solution along with the mitigation of relevant barriers and the development of an effective marketing strategy as part of the Heat4Cool business model.