1. OPTIMUS SCEAF & Tracker

2. Contents How “OPTIMUS” a city is… ? Structure of the Framework
SCEAF at Different Levels (City / Building Level SCEAF)
OPTIMUS Rating Chart
OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool
OPTIMUS Tracker

3. Smart City Energy Assessment Framework
How “OPTIMUS” a city is… ? (1/2)
You can’t improve something if you cannot measure it.
In an ordinal scale, how “OPTIMUS” is a city?
Assess the performance before (ex-ante) and after (ex-post) the implementation of any beneficial action (e.g. OPTIMUS DSS).
Smart City Energy Assessment Framework
Approach

4. How “OPTIMUS” a city is… ? (2/2)
SCEAF aims to direct “Smart Energy Cities” to energy optimization by highlighting the strengths, the vulnerabilities and the opportunities arising, given the existing energy strategy, environmental policy, municipal facilities and related infrastructures of each city.
ex-ante and ex-post status of a City, in relation to energy optimization, compared with the “OPTIMUS” city, which is the city that achieves the best performance in all proposed indicators.

5. Structure of the Framework (1/2)
Evaluation Axes
Political Field of Action
How ambitious am I?
Energy & Environmental Profile
How energy efficient am I?
Related Infrastructures & ICT
How “Smart” am I?
energy savings and environmental commitments/ targets, Funding
RES, Energy Efficiency, CHP plants, energy storage, CO2 emission levels and energy mix
ICT, automations, monitoring & forecasting systems, social media and energy cost

6. Structure of the Framework (2/2)
Pillars
Political Field of Action
Energy & Environmental Profile
Related Infrastructures & ICT
Energy saving targets
CO2 emission targets
Efficiency at fulfilling targets
Funds devoted for energy efficiency
Energy consumption intensity
Energy production via RES
Energy conservation
Air pollution
Network efficiency
Monitoring systems
BEMS & automations, Smart Meters and ICT solutions
Forecasting systems
Social media

7. SCEAF at Different Levels
City Level
Sector Level
Building Level
Political Field of Actions
Energy and Environmental Profile
Related Infrastructures and ICT
SCEAF Axes
Data Aggregation
Same Philosophy
Same Methodology
Same Axes
Modified indicators

8. City Level SCEAF (1/3) 1. Political Field of Action Axis
1.1 Degree of ambition
1.1.1
CO2 reduction target in municipal buildings till 2020 (Num)
1.1.2
Energy consumption reduction target in municipal buildings till 2020 (Num)
1.1.3
Peak electricity demand reduction target of the city till 2020 (Num)
1.1.4
Renewable energy sources in the final use target in municipal buildings till 2020 (Num)
1.2 Efficiency at fulfilling targets
1.2.1
Medium term results for CO2 reduction in Municipal Buildings (Num)
1.2.2
Medium term results for energy consumption reduction in Municipal Buildings (Num)
1.2.3
Medium term results for peak electricity demand reduction in the city (Num)
1.2.4
Medium term results for renewable energy sources in the final use in Municipal Buildings (Num)
1.3 Asset management
1.3.1
Cost reduction for electrical energy needs in the city (Num)
1.3.2
Cost reduction for natural gas needs in the city (Num)
1.3.3
Level of switching energy providers (electricity/gas) (Ling)
1.3.4
Funds devoted for renewable energy sources & energy efficiency (Num)

9. City Level SCEAF (2/3) 2. Energy and Environmental Profile Axis
2.1 Energy consumption intensity
2.1.1
Energy consumption reduction in city per capita (Num)
2.1.2
Percentage reduction of fossil fuels in energy mix (Num)
2.1.3
Percentage of electricity in energy mix (Num)
2.1.4
Energy consumption reduction in public transport per capita (Num)
2.1.5
Energy consumption reduction in municipal fleet per capita (Num)
2.1.6
Energy consumption reduction in Water treatment units, Recycling centers, Composting plants and Sewage treatment units per capita (Num)
2.2 Energy production via Renewable technology
2.2.1
Installed capacity (PV, Wind) (Num)
2.2.2
RES production intensity (Num)
2.2.3
Percentage of RES in energy mix (Num)
2.3 Energy conservation features
2.3.1
Ability of storing electricity produced (electrical storage - batteries, hydrogen etc.) (Int)
2.3.2
Ability of storing thermal power produced (thermal storage - boilers etc.) (Int)
2.3.3
Cogenerating Heat and Power (Num)
2.3.4
Exploitation of weather conditions to optimize energy performance in municipal buildings (Lin)
2.4 Network efficiency
2.4.1
Efficiency of transaction (Num)
2.4.2
Efficiency of transmission (Num)
2.4.3
Reduced heat losses from district heating network (Num)
2.5 Ambient air pollution
2.5.1
Emissions reduction per capita (Num)
2.5.2
Reduction of CO2 Emission intensity (Num)

10. City Level SCEAF (3/3) 3. Related Infrastructures and ICT Axis
3.1 Level of integration of automations, Smart Meters and ICT solutions in Municipal Buildings
3.1.1
Environmental Monitoring Systems (Ling)
3.1.2
Air pollution Monitoring Systems (Ling)
3.1.3
BEMS (Ling)
3.2 Level of integration of automations, Smart Meters and ICT solutions
3.2.1
Controlled outdoor lighting on roads (Ling)
3.2.2
Smart meters and automations (Ling)
3.2.3
System providing pricing information (Ling)
3.2.4
Multi-carrier energy network plants (Ling)
3.3 Forecasting systems
3.3.1
Forecasting energy consumption (Ling)
3.3.2
Forecasting temperature (Ling)
3.3.3
Forecasting CO2 levels (Ling)
3.3.4
Scheduling huge energy demanding operations (Ling)
3.4 Exploitation of Social media
3.4.1
Municipal Buιldings surveillance strategies (Ling)

11. Building Level SCEAF 1. Political Field of Action 1.1
CO2 reduction target in municipal buildings till 2020
1.2
Energy consumption reduction target in municipal buildings till 2020
1.3
Renewable energy sources in the final use target in municipal buildings till 2020
1.4
Medium term results for CO2 reduction in Municipal Buildings
1.5
Medium term results for energy consumption reduction in Municipal Buildings
1.6
Medium term results for renewable energy sources in the final use in Municipal Buildings
1.7
Funds devoted for renewable energy sources & energy efficiency
Related Infrastructures and ICT
3.1
Monitoring Systems, BEMS and BACS
3.2
Energy Monitoring Systems
3.3
Forecasting systems
3.4
Level of switching energy providers
3.5
Cost reduction for energy needs in the municipal building
3.6
Existence of social media
3.7
Building management action plans influenced by occupants preferences
2. Energy and Environmental Profile
2.1
Energy consumption reduction in municipal buildings
2.2
Percentage reduction of fossil fuels
2.3
Average CO2 emission factor
2.4
Renewable Energy Sources (RES) production intensity
2.5
Ability of storing energy produced (thermal storage, electrical storage)
2.6
Cogenerating Heat and Power
2.7
Energy performance and envelope efficiency of the building

12. OPTIMUS Rating Chart (1/2)
Calculated score per axis
Scaling
Political Field of Action
OPTIMUS City
Highest score in every indicator
Energy & Environmental Profile
Specific score in each indicator
Related Infrastructures & ICT
City under Evaluation

13. OPTIMUS Rating Chart (2/2)
“OPTIMUS Rating Chart” supports the classification according to the rating resulted from the analysis, based on the following linguistic term set:
S = {s0 = Insignificant (I), S1 = Very Low (VL), S2 = Low (L), S3 = Medium (M), S4 = High (H), S5 = Very High (VH), S6 = Optimus (O)}
Results can be presented transparently;
Are easily understood by the experts, since the SCEAF main outputs are words;
Include also the numerical value that depicts the difference between the numerical value and the index of the closest linguistic term (no loss of information).
Herrera F., Martinez L. An approach for combining linguistic and numerical information based on 2-tuple fuzzy representation model in decision-making, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 8 (5) (2000)

14. Fill SCEAF questionnaire
OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (1/6)
Fill SCEAF questionnaire
Evaluation
Visualization
Data Collection
SCEAF methodology

15. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (2/6) “Home” page.
Describes the purpose of the SCEAF and the present tool, while a user can create an account or sign in.

16. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (3/6) “SCEAF” page.
SCEAF questionnaire form, in order to collect data for the evaluation process.
Fill in the form with each building’s data to proceed to the evaluation.

17. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (4/6) “All Submissions” page.
A list with all the different one year submissions and a comparison of all year aggregates .

18. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (4/6) “Submission” page.
It provides the results of SCEAF (Total and per SCEAF axis) both for the each building imported and for all the municipal buildings as a whole

19. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (4/6) “One year submission”
The arithmetic and linguistic result of the evaluation
The buildings of a year’s submission
The buildings sorted by the results of the evaluation

20. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (4/6) “One year submission” The evaluation axis
The evaluation pillars
(The numbers were explained previously)
The building’s results for each evaluation pillar
Graphical display of the evaluation results for each pillar

21. OPTIMUS SCEAF Tool (4/6) “All year aggregates”
Comparison of the aggregated results for the different submission years

22. What is the potential of the city / building for optimization?
OPTIMUS Tracker (1/17)
What is the potential of the city / building for optimization?
OPTIMUS Tracker constitutes a web tool for the energy managers, in order to assess the potential of the city / building for optimization and identify specific buildings where the OPTIMUS DSS can be applied

23. OPTIMUS Tracker (2/17) DSS Indicators Reduction of Energy Consumption
Reduction of CO2 Emissions
Reduction of Energy Cost
Increase of RES Production

24. % improvement due to the implementation of the APs
OPTIMUS Tracker (3/17)
Evaluation Process
Energy Consumption
CO2 Emissions
Energy Cost
RES Production
% improvement due to the implementation of the APs
Administration
Education
Hospitals
Sport Facilities
Entertainment
Other
Heating
Cooling
Other
Evaluation

25. OPTIMUS Tracker (4/17) Click to make a new submission for a city.
Home
Click to make a new submission for a city.
Click to see the user’s past submissions.

26. OPTIMUS Tracker (5/17) Fill in the city’s general information.
New data input (1/2)
Fill in the city’s general information.
Choose the year for which you will insert data, the baseline year to be used for comparison and the year for which you set the targets.
Choose if the submission can be viewed by other users

27. OPTIMUS Tracker (6/17)
New data input (2/2)
Set the city’s long term targets for energy optimisation
Set the country’s CO2 emission factors for each energy source.

28. OPTIMUS Tracker (7/17) Add a new building in the submission
The municipal buildings
Add a new building in the submission
Insert the building’s energy data
Choose to include or not the building in the submission

29. OPTIMUS Tracker (8/17)
Building’s energy data (1/2)
Fill in the building’s name and category (administration, education, etc.)
Fill in the building’s annual energy consumption for heating, cooling or other use

30. OPTIMUS Tracker (9/17)
Building’s energy data (2/2)
Give the percentage use of each energy source for heating, cooling or other.
Fill in the building’s energy prices
Fill in the building’s annual RES production

31. OPTIMUS Tracker (10/17)
Baseline energy data
The same energy data for the baseline year. If it is the same with the submission year, then they are already filled in.

32. OPTIMUS Tracker (11/17)
The action plans
Choose if you want to use the minimum or the maximum values of each action plan’s expected impact for the submission.
Select the action plans to be applied on the building.
The minimum and maximum expected impact of each action plan.

33. OPTIMUS Tracker (12/17)
Click if you want to choose a different scenario for the application of action plans.
The submission’s overview
Click to see the results for each building category.
The overview of the city’s targets, current progress (if the submission year is different from the baseline) and projected progress for the next year after the implementation of the selected action plans.

34. OPTIMUS Tracker (13/17)
Change action plans
Select the building for which you want to change the applied action plans.
Choose the building’s new action plans.

35. OPTIMUS Tracker (14/17)
The submission’s overview
Comparison between the projected results of the last two different scenarios for the action plans’ application.
Click to do the submission.

36. OPTIMUS Tracker (15/17)
Past submissions
The list of the submissions already made from the user. Click to see each submission’s overview.

37. OPTIMUS Tracker (16/17)
The submission’s overview
Click to edit the current submission or compare it with one of yours or one of other users that it is made public.
The submission’s overview.

38. OPTIMUS Tracker (17/17) The compared submission’s overview.
The compare submission’s overview
The compared submission’s overview.