Development and Application of a FIWARE-based ICT-Platform for Multi-Energy Systems on Building and District Level

The integration of volatile, renewable energies into building and district energy systems requires novel algorithms that are capable of controlling the augmented complexity and the interactions of subsystems efficiently. Local energy communities will consist of a multitude of different small and large scale components using a variety of communication protocols. A reliable communication among the heterogeneous components is of utmost importance. In this regard, information and communication technology (ICT) platforms are implemented to collect data from the field devices and coordinate the various components. At Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), in the framework of the Living Lab Energy Campus (LLEC) project, a FIWARE-based ICT cloud platform has been developed to gather field data from the energy demonstrators, store them and make them available for control solutions and other applications. In this paper, the architecture and the components of the LLEC ICT platform are described. The implemented solutions are motivated by the needs underlined by the demonstrators in the LLEC project, but easily transferable to other similar setups. Finally, exemplary applications that make use of the proposed ICT platform are presented, to showcase the flexibility of the platform.