Lifecycle of a sub-metered tertiary multi-use (GreEn-ER) building's open energy data: from resource mobilisation to data re-usability

TL;DR

This paper introduces OPENDAL, a comprehensive open energy data lifecycle model that enhances data reuse by capturing complex information flows and stakeholder interactions, demonstrated through datasets from a multi-use building.

Contribution

The paper presents a new open data lifecycle model, OPENDAL, tailored for complex built environment data, and applies it to real datasets from a tertiary multi-use building.

Findings

OPENDAL improves data reuse in the built environment.

Application to GreEn-ER datasets demonstrates practical utility.

Highlights diverse use cases to incentivize data sharing.

Abstract

The proliferation of sensors in buildings has given us access to more data than before. To shepherd this rise in data, many open data lifecycles have been proposed over the past decade. However, many of the proposed lifecycles do not reflect the necessary complexity in the built environment. In this paper, we present a new open data lifecycle model: Open Energy Data Lifecycle (OPENDAL). OPENDAL builds on the key themes in more popular lifecycles and looks to extend them by better accounting for the information flows between cycles and the interactions between stakeholders around the data. These elements are included in the lifecycle in a bid to increase the reuse of published datasets. In addition, we apply the lifecycle model to the datasets from the GreEn-ER building, a mixed-use education building in France. Different use cases of these datasets are highlighted and discussed as a way to incentivise the use of data by other individuals.