Hypertech (Greece)

Smart Subs is developing and improving the existing know-how / technology and applications of language recognition and sentence tagging as well promoting research to synchronize live oral performances in the ambient of a virtual production dome theatre (sound) and written subtitles to develop an application for “smart wearable glasses”, which will allow subtitles to be displayed on smart-glasses for deaf or hard of hearing spectators.

BRIDGE is an important collaboration initiative within Horizon and more specifically high-TRL projects. Attempting to finetune research results and coordinate innovation strategies and frameworks, it manages to extract useful guidelines and contributions to energy system decarbonisation vision of the EU. ACCEPT will actively contribute to BRIDGE initiative and WP10 is dedicated in its larger part to this contribution. ACCEPT will provide its methodologies and conclusions to the activities of business modelling in BRIDGE and will utilise conclusions on regulatory frameworks and data management. Additionally, the ACCEPT large scale validation testbed -which extends to various cultural, geographical and socioeconomic contexts- will constitute a valuable source of conclusion extraction that ACCEPT will share with other projects. The project collaborative activities and participation in BRIDGE will be monitored and reported in WP10 and more specifically in T10.1. The present deliverable is the second version out of four in total and includes the updated planning of relevant BRIDGE and synergies’ activities, an overview of the activities carried out to date under the framework of WP10 and key next steps for the next period (between now and the next version of the deliverable). Chapter 1 of the present document presents the scope and objectives of the task, the deliverable structure as well as its interdependencies with other activity lines of the project. It also includes a short section on the incremental changes and updates included in this report compared to the first version of the deliverable. Chapter 2 includes all the ACCEPT collaboration framework as it has been laid out from the Grant Agreement stage and as it has evolved through the first semester of the project. Within the chapter, the management of BRIDGE participation within the consortium is presented together with the cooperation perspective with other H2020 projects. The main workshops, conferences and events that constitute suitable collaboration platforms are mentioned, such as EUSEW and Sustainable Places, etc. Chapter 3 summarises the already assumed collaboration activities as conducted within M1-M18, including the BRIDGE General Assembly Meetings, Working Group discussions as well as knowledge sharing platforms established between ACCEPT and other projects of the call LC-SC3-EC-3-2020. A reference to planned activities for the next period is also presented. Finally, Chapter 4 includes the conclusions in the form of a brief summary of the document.

This report presents the work carried out in Task 2.3 of ACCEPT regarding the system architecture design process and results up to Month 10 of the project. In particular, the deliverable includes the high-level architecture model of the complete system, with the initial point being the design as presented in the Description of Work, and further refined and updated based on the work carried out in this period. This high-level architecture has also been mapped to the various SGAM layers to assist the future integration and development activities. The main bulk of the document concentrates on detailing the specifications and characteristics of the various system's software components. A dedicated template was created and circulated to all relevant partners in order to provide the components' functional and non-functional specifications, highlight interdependencies with other components, and declare the input/output data requirements (Annex I – Component’s Specifications and Requirements Template). Additionally, detailed component diagrams were created, and finally, the connection with Deliverable 2.1 (D2.1) was performed via a mapping of components to Use Cases that required relevant functionalities. Sequence diagrams were already created for D2.1 and are not presented here. This is the first version of ACCEPT's system architecture. It will drive the development of the first iteration of the system and its constituent components, up to Month 16 of the project. Following that, a pre-validation stage will evaluate the system prototype, resulting to refinements, changes and updates that will be reflected on the Deliverable 2.4, which will present the final version of the architecture.

ACCEPT extends to multiple different geographical and social contexts around Europe, including 4 countries and hundreds of directly involved pilot users. To this end, it is highly important to incorporates ethical aspects in all stages of the research, such as design, development and validation. Confronting these matters at an initial project phase through the definition of a concrete ethics and data management framework will enable the development of innovative technologies while adhering to RRI principles. A multitude of aspects that are adjacent to ethics revolve are analysed in the document, such as data collection, data protection, transparency and privacy. In parallel the national regulatory framework around data management and pilot participant information requirements are laid out. The processes regarding the ACCEPT living lab set-up are described and an initial preview of the cybersecurity provisions is presented. All ethical aspects involved in the community engagement will be followed, including prosumer recruitment with transparency and a strict non-discrimination policy as well as data treatment with the utmost confidentiality. The right to information will be respected as the pilot responsible partners are in charge of analysing the ACCEPT concept to the local stakeholders in the local language and using layman language in order ensure proper understanding. A signed consent form hardcopy will confirm the voluntary participation and acknowledgement of each pilot user. The principles of data minimisation will hedge the risk of non-essential data collection and of accidental exposure of personal data (shadow data). Special attention will be paid to the anonymisation/ pseudonymisation procedures and to an elaborate user management through the proper authentication, authorisation and encryption to guarantee secure access to data. Finally, the deliverable presents the ACCEPT gender equity plan covering both the consortium but also the living lab participants. The equity plan will be further enriched through the course of the project.

Despite its high potential, the building's sector lags behind in reducing its energy demand. Tremendous savings can be achieved by deploying building management services during operation, however, the manual deployment of these services needs to be undertaken by experts and it is a tedious, time and cost consuming task. It requires detailed expert knowledge to match the diverse requirements of services with the present constellation of envelope, equipment and automation system in a target building. To enable the widespread deployment of these services, this knowledge-intensive task needs to be automated. Knowledge-based methods solve this task, however, their widespread adoption is hampered and solutions proposed in the past do not stick to basic principles of state of the art knowledge engineering methods. To fill this gap we present a novel methodological approach for the design of knowledge-based systems for the automated deployment of building management services. The approach covers the essential steps and best practices: (1) representation of terminological knowledge of a building and its systems based on well-established knowledge engineering methods; (2) representation and capturing of assertional knowledge on a real building portfolio based on open standards; and (3) use of the acquired knowledge for the automated deployment of building management services to increase the energy efficiency of buildings during operation. We validate the methodological approach by deploying it in a real-world large-scale European pilot on a diverse portfolio of buildings and a novel set of building management services. In addition, a novel ontology, which reuses and extends existing ontologies is presented.

In this paper, we present the concept of UtilitEE project, an innovative and realistic solution for delivering a customer-oriented Behavioural Change Framework based on an open ICT ecosystem integrated into the building with low cost, off-the-shelf sensors. The solution also incorporates human-centric intelligent control features that use occupant comfort profiles and supportively control HVAC and lighting systems to minimize energy waste, while always keeping occupants comfortable and preserving a healthy indoor environment. Key part of the technical development work is the end users' involvement in co-designing the user interfaces and its features. In the following sections, the objectives and the preliminary high-level system architecture are presented along with the pilot deployment activities for system validation and demonstration.