Project scope

The project addressed the consumer (mass) market of the home, private dwellings, but also common public buildings and offices, and the standard appliances used in that environment. Elevators and other special equipment are not covered.

The project covers the following appliances:

  • Home and buildings sensors (temperature, humidity, energy-plugs, energy clams, energy meters, water-flow, water quality, presence, occupancy, air monitors, environmental sensors, CO2 sensors, weather stations, etc.) and actuators (windows, doors, stores). Sensors belonging to appliances are treated individually.
  • White goods, as classified by CECED
  • Rinsing and Cleaning
  • Cooking and Baking
  • Refrigerating and Freezing
  • Vacuum Cleaning
  • Washing and Drying
  • HVAC; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, plumbing, security and electrical systems, as classified by Eu.bac
  • Lighting, with use cases as defined by LightingEurope (f.k.a. ELC)
  • Micro renewable home solutions (solar panels, solar heaters, wind, etc.)

Multimedia and home computer equipment devices will be explored only with respect for semantic requirements for the energy relevant operations (switch on, standby), but not for the content management (i.e. channel choice).

The study covers the following interoperability use cases:

  • Interoperability with construction design tools (product information, product performance and product behaviour)
  • Interoperability with Facility Management and Energy Management Systems
  • Interoperability with Building Control systems
  • ESCO (Energy Services) systems
  • Interoperability with the Smart Grid

As primary stakeholders the manufacturers of the following home energy producing and consuming products will be consulted:

  • Manufacturers of white goods
  • Manufactures of HVAC, plumbing, security and electrical systems
  • Manufacturers of lightings
  • Manufacturers of sensors and actuators (windows, doors, stores)
  • Manufacturers of micro renewable home solutions (solar panels, solar heaters, wind, etc.)
  • Manufacturers of multimedia and home computer equipment

Furthermore stakeholders from directly linked industries will be consulted:

  • Construction industry
  • Facility Management and Building Control industry
  • ESCO (Energy Services Providers)
    • Utilities and operators of the power grid

The work packages and tasks in the project will fulfil the following objectives:

  • An overview of existing explicit or implicit semantic assets and use case assets.
  • Detailed analysis of the existing semantic assets or requirements in an exhaustive way.
  • Proposal for a unified ontology to be contributed to ETSI for consideration as a future standard.
  • Documentation of the proposed the ontology into the ETSI M2M architecture.