What is TABEDE?

To fully realize the European Demand Response (DR) potential, buildings must enter DR schemes and expose all available flexibilities, including heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) and thermal inertia, to the DR aggregator. However, several existing limitations need to be overcome:

• Interoperability and communication: A variety of communication technologies, protocols and data models are used in building automation and energy management systems and numerous smart grid standards exist.
• Cost: It is often cheaper to install a new building management system (BMS) than to spend time and money to adapt an existing BMS.
• Functionality: Current BMSs do not support demand response applications out of the box. Moreover, market-ready interoperable solutions do not exist that considers DR potential of thermal inertia and comfort-related systems in buildings.

TABEDE aims to allowing all buildings to integrate energy grid demand response schemes through a low cost extender for BMS systems or as standalone system, which is  independent of communication standards and integrate innovative flexibility algorithms. The name of this solution is the “BMS-E” which stands for “Building Management Systems-Extender” and details along with pictures of the hardware can be found at the “About” page.