TIPS4PED

Project Info

TIPS4PED will design, develop and test in a relevant environment the effectiveness and techno-economic viability of a Digital Twin-based Platform, to support municipalities in the implementation of Positive Energy Districts. The TIPS4PED Platform will be able to support municipalities in decision-making, delivering a series of evidence-based results, thus increasing the environmental sustainability of cities, and reducing operational costs.

The project will adopt a people-centric approach which aims to engage, train and empower citizens and potential stakeholders. TIPS4PED will do this by leveraging consortium knowledge and prior EU experience, motivated by the goals set out by the European Commission. To design and manage the PED effectively and foster its implementation through city-planning actions, different modules will be made available on the Integrated Assessment Platform to support municipalities from the technical perspective as well as the social, financial, regulatory and administrative perspectives.

The tools will be developed thanks to an end-user co-design approach, capable of providing constant feedback to the software development process. The TIPS4PED solutions will be tested in one ‘LightHouse’ city (Turin), where the IAP will be connected to a sensoring system for real-time management of the assets, and replication studies will be conducted in three ‘Follower’ cities (Cork, Kozani and Budapest). The testing and replication phase will result in the creation of Digital Twins and decarbonisation roadmaps for the four cities. TIPS4PED seeks to suggest scalable and easily reproducible technologies and digital optimisation as a key solution for achieving the 2030 EU goals, while taking into consideration various market circumstances, and environmental, safety and regulatory aspects.