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Dig-IT Lab open lectures
Our open lectures cover various research themes and provide accessible knowledge on a wide range of current, industry-relevant topics.
Talk with professor Torben Bach Pedersen: Integrating Smart Buildings and Smart Grids using the domOS Common Ontology
2025-03-24
Smart buildings and smart grids share the goal of trying to optimize their respective operations, e.g., to use energy flexibly. However, they struggle to cooperate as they lack a common language to communicate between their different worlds.
This talk describes how the Horizon 2020 project domOS: Operating System for Smart Buildings achieved integration between smart buildings and smart grid using the domOS Common Ontology (dCO), a comprehensive language and information model for formally describing smart building and the sensors, actuators, and assets within them. The focus will be on the Energy Flexibility module which extends the well-known SAREF4ENERGY ontology with energy flexibility concepts from the award-winning FlexOffer model.
Dig-It Lab Ontology workshop – Normalisation and open standards are key to scalability
2025-01-22
This workshop on ontologies, digitalisation and standardisation in rreal estate was held on the 22nd of January 2025. Several representatives from different companies and organisations took part and presented their projects and ideas on how one can use ontologies and the semantic web to make property management more efficient.
The workshop aimed to increase awareness on the importance of ontologies, standardisation and collaboration to promote digitalisation within real estate. The discussions also touched upon the future potential of AI agents and how they can contribute to optimising property performance.
AI applications in Sustainable Energy Engineering
2024-11-13
Speaker: Alva Markelius, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge.
Lecture exploring the hype around AI, addressing both its potential and its pitfalls. It also addresses ethical aspects, current research topics, and ongoing debates.
Read more about the lecture: https://www.digitlab.kth.se/education/educational-activities/dig-it-lab-open-lectures/
Diggin Discussions
Dig-IT lab regularly organises discussions with its partners, with topics spanning from research results to common challenges regarding digititalisation and sustainability in the built environment. Every ”Diggin Discussion” has a new theme, and those that are of general interest will be available here.
A shift from isolation towards a real estate ecosystem
2025-04-25
Speaker: Tobias Davidsson, Akademiska Hus
Listen to Tobias Davidsson from Akademiska Hus discussing a possible shift from isolated, disconnected practices within the real estate industry to a more integrated, collaborative, and technology-driven ecosystem.
An ecosystem approach envisions the real estate industry as a network of interconnected players, platforms, and data streams working together to optimize processes, enhance the user experience, and create a more sustainable, transparent, and efficient environment. Easier said than done, Akademiska Hus discuss how their approach led them to evaluate reference designations, ontologies and data-as-a-product in trying to solve needs in both vertical integration within the company and horizontal integration thru out the value chain.
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White box digital twins
2024-04-11
Speaker: Marco Molinari, Director KTH Live-In Lab
A brief introduction to the concepts of digital models, digital shadows and digital twins. Marco Molinari illustrates applications of digital twins to fault detection and machine learning in buildings and highlights current challenges and opportunities of white box digital twins in buildings.
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