D6.1 Pilot operation, preparation, engagement and M&V plan
Creators: name: Gema Hernández Moral
name: Sofía Mulero Palencia
name: Carla Rodríguez Alonso
name: Víctor Iván Serna González
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Large Scale Pilots
Validation
Pilot Operation
Measurement and Verification Framework
Key Performance Indicators
User satisfaction
Baseline assessment

description: The EU-funded MATRYCS project will deliver Big Data applications that provide comprehensive energy efficiency services in buildings and improve building operation and infrastructure design. An open reference architecture for smart energy efficient buildings will be created to align advanced architecture and vocabularies, allowing B2B sovereignty. The methodology will preserve multi-party data exchange and provide full interoperability of Big Data enablers with smart buildings standards.


The validation of such framework will be carried out through the deployment of analytics services focusing on different applications of a building’s lifecycle such as digital building twins, improved buildings operation, building infrastructure design, EU/national policy assessment for energy efficiency investments on 11 Large-Scale Pilots (LSPs). These will be led by different stakeholders (facility managers, ESCOs, financial institutions, construction companies, municipalities, electricity grid and DH operators, policy makers), who will act as main beneficiaries.


The validation of this framework is the main focus of Work Package (WP) 6 “Deployment and Validation in Real Environments”, and the generation of this framework is scope of deliverable D6.1 – “Pilot operation, preparation, engagement and M&V plan”. In particular, the objectives and the activities under Task T6.1 “Pilot planning, Requirements and KPIs” and Task T6.2 “Pilots detailed specifications and preparation” are reported in the present document and aim at developing a plan for the deployment of the pilots throughout the project, establishing the measurement and verification (M&V) plan of the project, assessing and defining the current status of the LSPs.


To this end, deliverable D6.1 “Pilot operation, preparation, engagement and M&V plan” introduces the objectives pursued in WP6 and Tasks 6.1 and 6.2 (section 1), and presents the main concepts used in MATRYCS’ pilot operation and engagement (section 2). In this respect, special focus is placed on the description of MATRYCS LSPs (section 2.1), the development cycles followed in the project (section 2.2) and the main pillars of the Evaluation Framework, which are presented in section 2.3. This Evaluation Framework will serve to measure the progress and the impact achieved in the LSPs and guide the validation process. It is composed by three main pillars containing sets of Key Performance Indicators, which address different aspects of the LSP deployment and validation: (1) Strategy and general context, (2) Data, Infrastructures and digital technologies and (3) User satisfaction. To complement these three pillars, two additional ones are proposed to ensure capturing user needs and facilitating the replication of the MATRYCS’ solutions: (4) Main stakeholders and (5) Procedures to personalise MATRYCS.


The interplay and coordination of these elements (LSPs, development cycles and the Evaluation Framework) is what will drive the LSPs’ operation and engagement plan in the coming months. This Pilot operation plan, as well as the envisaged engagement methods and the identification of potential risks are presented in section 4.


Finally, this document also presents a baseline assessment report for each of the pilots in section 5. In it, the calculation of all general and specific KPIs that can be calculated at this stage are presented, i.e. the pillars of (1) Strategy and general context, (2) Data, infrastructures and digital technologies and (4) Main stakeholders. To ease comparability among LSPs, summary tables are provided in section 6.