BlueBird Components
The Bluebird platform consists of a set of generic components which will be deployed in the project pilots depending on the pilots' use case needs.
The overall architecture allows to integrate seamlessly with existing IoT infrastructures in the different pilot sites, while ensuring that the minimum requirements are met for deploying the full suite of BlueBird services. This architecture strikes a balance between flexibility and robustness, providing a versatile foundation for energy data management and demand response applications.
This strategy ensures that the deployment of BlueBird services is sustainable in the long term. After the project, partners will be able to continue providing and scaling the developed services within their own infrastructures, maintaining the value created and supporting ongoing innovation in energy management and flexibility services.
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User Empowerment
For user empowerment, we use insights from social and behavioural science to help people actively engage in energy flexibility and demand-response. By combining psychological research and behaviour change models with intuitive tools and explainable AI, we support users in understanding their options, making informed decisions, and adopting sustainable practices over the long term. We directly work with people in our Pilots to empower them within the project and beyond.
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Use Case System
The BlueBird use case system is organized along both energy sectors, including different types of equipment and appliances, and functionalities. The functionalities are clustered into a set of high level use cases that include services which can be chosen as components based on the specific situations at a pilot site.
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Regulatory background, barriers and best practices
BlueBird performs an in-depth analysis of the regulatory framework that enables or constrains the transformation of buildings into energy flexibility assets. The analysis includes mapping relevant provisions in EU directives such as the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), and the Electricity Market Design (EMD).
Pilot partners contribute insights on existing regulatory, economic, and legal barriers related to the national and regional implementation of these directives, with a particular focus on the Smart Readiness Indicator, building systems, renewable energy, smart technologies, aggregators, and energy communities. This is complemented with the identification of successful local policies that serve as good practices and enablers, assessing their potential applicability in other Member States.
Business Modeling
BlueBird characterises the route to market of small-scale flexibilities. It requires a number of actors with different interests and a large number of data requirements and exchanges between the actors.
In this respect, the barriers and drivers for the provision of small scale flexibilities are identified. The research focuses on flexibility market integration, identifying data flows between market actors, elaborating baseline concepts and characterising barriers along the route to market for small flexibilities.
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