Digital Transformation in Energy Transition

The emergence of the Internet of Things, which enables the connection of almost every building-element to the Internet, provides a huge and appealing amount of data to the Smart Building and Smart City ecosystem. These data also create value by enriching the offer and quality of applications designed for optimal management of energy efficiency. The topic of energy saving has also been evaluated for 119 buildings managed by the Territorial Agency for the House (ATC) in 9 districts of Turin. All the useful information, concerning the sample of buildings analyzed, were collected; in particular, its characteristics: the envelope, the technological systems and the type of use. By gathering the energy consumption data for 4 heating seasons, the energy signature has been represented for each building in order to analyze its thermal behavior and to identify operating anomalies. Finally, with a cost-optimal analysis, the most effective energy efficiency measures were identified. A comparative study of energy consumption is also started on other similar typological houses, new buildings ended two years ago with high energy standard certification, and located in south of Italy at different latitude from Turin. The apartments are part of three public buildings classified in Italy like social housing or low income people's houses, managed from the regional office named ‘ARCA Sud Salento’ (Regional Agency for House and Dwelling). This study shows how using monitoring devices and where in the internal spaces of buildings, equipped directly by display on the wall in each apartment so that each household could have the possibility to control their use at the same time of the operating, to be influenced by that visualization and to be pushed to modify his behavior for energy saving purposes. These devices will lead the household to virtuous behaviors in the energy use at home.