EuroEnergest

Today climate change has become a reality and all efforts are focused on mitigating human actions against the environment. In addition, the automotive industry has to face new challenges in a market that is becoming increasingly competitive, and has to contend with high energy prices.

These threats make it necessary to rethink production processes to increase energy efficiency. Therefore, the EuroEnergest project, led by Enertika, is created in order to achieve this goal. This project is funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Program.

The objective of the project is to reduce, by at least 10%, the energy consumption of air conditioning systems and manufacturing processes in the automotive industry through the development of an Intelligent Energy Management System (IEMS). IEMS allows the interaction between loads, power generation equipment and the environment and operating conditions to optimize energy consumptions.

This R&D project has the ambitious challenge of implementing a prototype in such a demanding sector as the automotive industry (SEAT facilities, in the outskirts of Barcelona – Spain), which will allow the transfer of the technology developed in other markets and the return of the public-private investment.

The consortium partners teaming up with Enertika and SEAT are UPC (SE), Brunel University (UK), Comfort Engineering Consulting (HU) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FIN).

inLab’s contribution to this project has been to develop part of the frontend of this application. Specifically we have developed the frontend of the configuration of the optimization input parameters and the part of displaying the optimized IEMS data to the web.