An app that represents a building's energy data in a 3D model

ALICANTE, Spain - Sept. 10, 2024 - PRLog -- The European research project SATO, which aims to create a self-assessment and optimisation platform to integrate all the energy data of a building, has taken a major step forward by developing a program that collects energy data from a building and represents it in a 3D model using BIM (Building Information Modelling) technology.
This tool makes it easier to carry out the analysis and maintenance of buildings by providing a 3D graphical representation of their energy performance. According to Pablo Gilabert, Director of Innovation at CYPE, the company responsible for developing this app, ''This visualisation clearly identifies the energy performance and comfort of each part of the building, facilitating the decision-making process aimed at improving its performance''.
The SATO project, which is led by FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências from Portugal and has a consortium of 15 members from seven European Union countries, will end next September. The research has had a budget of 7,024,568.75 euros, of which 5,873,356.25 are funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
Pablo Gilabert, also responsible for the development of the Open BIM SATO program, highlights that the challenge addressed in this project "has not only been to generate digital twins with data from a multitude of sensors and BIM models, but also to process this information to favour a self-assessment to optimise the energy performance of the building".
To make this possible, this initiative has also developed a platform for collecting and storing data from sensors installed in buildings of different uses, as well as other consumption-related information such as energy bills. In this cloud space, the information is adapted to a common data structure so that the Open BIM SATO program, integrated in BIMserver.center, can represent them in 3D models.
"This solution tries to go beyond the purely flat representation of information linked to sensors in a room or an appliance. We can now process this information and represent it in 3D with a certain colour code to help users identify the weak points of their installation or building", emphasises Pablo Gilabert, who highlights the fact that this visualisation represents the state of the building in real-time, depending on its use.