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News

• The paper and poster of the conference CISBAT 2015 which took place in Lausanne on the 8.09.2015 are now available.
• The new Release 0.5.0 of the Energy ADE is now available here!
• Presentations and minutes of the 3rd Energy ADE Workshop in Sophia Antipolis are now available here.

Short Description of the Energy ADE

No widely applicable open model standard exists until now for Urban Energy Modelling.
Developers of new urban energy tools have created their own tailor-made data-models, while municipalities and other urban information data administrators have their own database structure to collect and manage urban information. As such, these models exist without interoperability and exchange possibilities between the stakeholders, tools and expert fields.

Since May 2014, an international consortium of urban energy simulation developers and users (11 European organisations representing 5 urban energy platform developments) has sought to address this need by developing an Urban Energy Information standard, as an Application Domain Extension (ADE) of the CityGML urban information model.
Following the philosophy of CityGML, this Energy ADE aims to be flexible, in terms of compatibility with different data qualities, levels of details, and urban energy models complexities (from monthly energy balance of ISO 13790, to sub-hourly dynamic simulation of softwares like CitySim or EnergyPlus). It takes into consideration the INSPIRE Directive of the European Parliament, as well as the recent US Building Energy Data Exchange Specification (BEDES).
Its structure is thought of as modular; some of its modules can be potentially used and extended for other applications (e.g. module Occupancy for socio-economics, module Materials for acoustics or statics, module Metadata and Scenarios for every urban analysis).

The concrete output of this development is a class diagramm and a XML Schema freely available.

About us, the Energy ADE Development Group

We are an international consortium of experts from research centers, standardisation institutes and private sector, created in May 2014 and since constant growing:

• in Germany: the Special Interest Group 3D (SIG3D), University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Technische Universität Munich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, European Institute for Energy Research, RWTH Aachen University / E.ON Energy Research Center, HafenCityUniversität Hamburg, M.O.S.S Computer Grafik Systeme
• in France: Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Electricité de France
• in Italy: Sinergis
• in Switzerland: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ETH Zürick

Every new organisation willing to participate actively to this Energy ADE development is very welcome. For this purpose, please contact SIG3D.

Dissemination Activities

Presentations and publications

• Conference CISBAT, 9-11th September 2015, in Lausanne - Switzerland

Conference Paper: Genesis of the new CityGML Energy ADE

Poster: Genesis of the new CityGML Energy ADE

Conference Paper: Urban energy simulation of the EPFL campus in Fribourg using a new paradigm: the CityGML application domain extension energy

• Geospatial World Forum + INSPIRE Conference, 25-29th May 2015, in Lisbon - Portugal

Presentation: Development of the CityGML ADE Energy

Minutes of the workshop

• 93rd OGC TC Meeting| 93rd OGC TC Meeting, 3DIM DWG, 3rd December 2014, in Tokyo - Japan

Presentation: Current Status of the Energy ADE for CityGML

More information: 3DIM DWG

• Publication in Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences

Article: Casper, E.; Häfele, K.-H.; Kaden, R.: "OGC Standard CityGML Opens Up New Applications In Energy Simulations" in: "Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences", Dec 2014, p.30-32 ( JNIBS Article, JNIBS Abstract )

Next participations/contributions to conferences and events

• Conference Building Simulation 2015, 7-9th December 2015, in Hyderabad - India

Presentation: Introduction of the CityGML Application Domain Extension Energy for Urban Energy Simulation (coordinator: Romain Nouvel)

Presentation: Urban energy simulation based on a new data model paradigm: the CityGML Application Domain Extension Energy. A case study in the EPFL campus of Lausanne (coordinator: Jérôme Kämpf)

Related Information and links

• CityGML overview
• Leitfaden 3D-GIS und Energie, A german guideline for 3D-GIS data and energy applications published by Runder Tisch GIS e.V.
• Similar projects, standards and developments

Community Portal (registered users only)

Portal for the ADE Energy developers.