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Project
Acronym: ThermalMapper 
Name: Thermal 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments for Saving Energy 
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Project status: From: 2010-11-01 To: 2012-09-30 (Completed)
Contract number: ERA 14/01  
Action line: SEE-ERA.net PLUS  
Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: FP7 
Project cost: 141.862,00 EUR
Project funding: 133.662,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH 
Organisation adress: Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen 
Organisation country: Njemačka 
Contact person name: Prof. Dr. Andreas Nüchter 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address: Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb 
Contact person name: Prof. dr. sc. Ivan Petrović
Contact person tel:
+ 385 1 6129 844  Contact person fax: + 385 1 6129 809 
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Bosna i Hercegovina 
Short description of project
Heat and air conditioning losses in buildings and factories lead to a large amount of wasted energy. To prevent such losses, a precise digital model of heat distribution and heat flow is needed. Imagine a technology that enables one to gage the environmental structure in three dimensions and thermal information at the same time. Further imagine clever visualization software that presents the thermal 3D models to a computer screen, lets the user rotate the model for inspection and runs simulations of heat and air flow. The project ThermalMapper aims at constructing precise thermal 3D models of indoor environments. Technology that has been developed in the last years by robotic researchers is now available to be adapted to solve these real world issues. "The Action Plan for Energy Efficiency estimates that the largest cost-effective energy savings potential lies in the residential (around 27%) and commercial buildings (around 30%)". The availability of precise thermal 3D models will enable architects and construction engineers to modify existing buildings to reach these savings. The central point of the project ThermalMapper is to create 3D models that include thermal information as additional modality. In the course of the project ThermalMapper, 3D mapping methods will be enriched with thermal information, visualizations and simulations are developed to continuously gather and present data on what is taking place inside a building. Applications range from thermal 3D modelling of houses to factories. For example, service providers such as data processing centres are highly interested in constant and concurrent data acquisition techniques to optimize load control while providing high availability. Since thermal issues are very important for operators of data centres, we have chosen this scenario for additional demonstrations.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
UNIZG-FER research objective in ThermalMapper is to develop algortihms for   on-line planning of sensor placements. Planning where to make measurements is a hard task. One wants to minimize the number of measurements, while one needs overlapping data to perform registration and modeling. This results in an optimization problem similar to art-gallery problems (where to place guards such that the entire gallery is guarded). It is known that these type of problems are hard. We plan to develop heuristics that perform well in practice.  


   

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