A global model based energy management system applied to the canopea building

This paper deals with the global model based antic-ipative energy management system adapted for the CANOPEA building prototype proposed by the team Rhˆone-Alpes for the Solar Decathlon Europe con-test. It presents a practical application of theoreti-cal studies originally developed in Grenoble Research labs (G-SCOP, G2Elab and LIG) and improved by the Vesta-System company. The different configurations of the building system including the envelope with the HVAC system, a battery and domestic appliances are presented: shutters, water storage, a temperature phase shifter, an air/air heat pump, an water/water heat pump, hybrid panels, The system, able to adapt to many different contexts to harvest the maximum energy, is so complex that it is difficult for a human to define the best configuration according to weather context and occupant activities. The proposed energy management system embeds a CANOPEA model con-nected to actual measurements, forecasts, realtime en-ergy costs and occupant demands collected thanks to an Android tablet. It is able to support decision regard-ing the day ahead best CANOPEA configurations with a one-hour resolution.