The Living Lab Energy Campus is an innovative research project at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It consists of three identical experimental buildings in the form of single-family homes and two office buildings. Each house is equipped with a different controllable heating system and has an electric car charging station and a stratified storage tank. In addition, the electric cars can be used as buffer storage for times when little regenerative energy is available or when a lot of energy is needed at once. The intelligent networking of the houses and office buildings can create a neighborhood network that supports the public power grid. All houses are fully automatically controllable, meaning that everything from opening and closing windows and doors, to turning on and configuring electrical appliances (e.g. stove or washing machine), to controlling heating and exchanging electricity and heat between houses can be automated.
We are developing the web interface for configuring and controlling the houses in the living lab and implementing the connection to the server. Thanks to the software we have developed, researchers in the living lab can easily create, start, and evaluate complex research scenarios. The research results enable the further development of learning, forward-looking, and grid-supportive building concepts.
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