D1P001: Name of the project
D1P001: Name of the project
  BIPED: Building Intelligent Positive Energy Districts
D1P002: Project assigned code
D1P002: Project assigned code
  101139060
D1P003: Start date
D1P003: Start date
  01/24
D1P004: End date
D1P004: End date
  12/26
D1P005: Ongoing project
D1P005: Ongoing project
  Yes
D1P006: Funding programme/financing model
FP7/H2020/HEU/DUT
 

  • FP7/H2020/HEU

FP7/H2020/HEU
  Horizon Europe
D1P008: Description of project objectives/concepts
D1P008: Description of project objectives/concepts
  The BIPED project is building an intelligent PED model to assist cities with decarbonisation efforts aimed at reaching net zero by 2030. At the core of BIPED solution lies the advanced digital twin technology complete with AI-driven optimisation tools for better urban planning. After the initial deployment in Aarhus, Denmark, BIPED tools and results will be offered to interested adopters across Europe, with a special focus on actors in the climate neutral cities network.
D1P009: Description of project upscaling strategies/potential
D1P009: Description of project upscaling strategies/potential
  Open technical specifications and guidance will allow cities to replicate and scale the BIPED solution to drive the decarbonisation agenda, especially when it comes to designing and implementing green investment plans necessary to achieve climate-neutrality by 2030. The use of standards, and in particular MIMs (Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms) will be a key enabler of cross-border integration, as well as between domains and systems. New MIMs ensure that the necessary technical requirements are met to provide efficient, scalable data-driven services. The use of European standards for data spaces will enable low-level models to inform higher-level aggregated city models employed in urban planning.
D1P012: Description of project expected impact
D1P012: Description of project expected impact
 

  • Extending LDT capabilities to better represent PED’s multi-dimensional profile: Current LDT implementations lack sophistication necessary to characterise PEDs in all their complexity, as they typically address a limited number of urban systems, such as mobility, transport and energy consumption. BIPED will go beyond these domains to provide a deeper understanding of PEDs in general and Brabrand in particular. By integrating social, cultural and political properties of a city, BIPED will guide PED development toward a more holistic model that more accurately represents urban dynamics.
  • Enriching PED development by integrating ‘soft’ datasets: Properties that define a district’s profile can often be measured quantitatively due to their discrete nature, using air or traffic sensors, for example. However, properties that are less quantitatively tangible, such as people’s perceptions or urban environment, are harder to capture but, once tapped, can show whether and where citizens feel happy or sad. This kind of emotional mapping has huge, though as yet unexplored, potential for urban planning. BIPED will pioneer the development of novel methodologies for gathering such “soft data” and its adequate representation in LDTs.
  • Boosting PED’s replication potential for the benefit of climate neutral cities: Although PEDs have common characteristics, they tend to be very specific to the local context. It is not easy to replicate the solution from one district to another, even in the same city, which limits the scalability potential. BIPED will use international standards, and in particular MIMs (Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms), to facilitate cross-district and cross-border integration of datasets, models and services. This will ensure that the necessary technical requirements are met to develop replication strategies on a country level as well as more widely across the Cities Mission.

D1P013: Standardization efforts
D1P013: Standardization efforts
  BIPED will build a world-class LDT for the district of Brabrand in Aarhus. Based on the ambitious EU roadmap for Federated LDTs (Digital Europe Programme), MIMS developed in the context of Living-in.EU (MIMs Plus) and the global y.MIM format, the first iteration of BIPED's solution will be created, comprising a detailed semantic 3D model of the physical environment, along with additional geospatial data and soft datasets.

The geometrical and visual representation of the digital twin will feature a terrain model, orthophotos, 3D vegetation models, street furniture models, and building models as specified by the OGC CityGML standard with at least Level of Detail (LOD) 2 geometrical and semantical differentiation. Higher LODs with additional information of facade and roof structures will be created as needed.

Open standards such as CityGML, GeoJSON, GML, GlTF, and open interfaces such as OGC WMS, WFS, WCS, OGC API Features will be incorporated to a) enable live data exchange with existing spatial data infrastructures and b) ensure portability with IT infrastructures of other European cities.

Subsequent iterations will link spatial data with domain specific data and tie in live information from sensors. Depending on local needs and modelling requirements, further integration with traffic networks, IoT sensors, mobility and energy systems may be undertaken to provide an optimal solution for decision making.

D1P014: Sources
D1P014: Sources
 

  • https://www.bi-ped.eu/

D1P015: Can you specify a suitable contact person regarding the load-management approach within your PED project?
Name
  Henrik Madsen
Email
  hmad@dtu.dk
D1P016: Would you be willing to share data from your PED project for research purposes?
D1P016: Would you be willing to share data from your PED project for research purposes?
  Yes