Data centres and server rooms are increasingly important in our digitised world. But such areas require an advanced upkeep and use a great amount of energy. Support for our IT infrastructures in an efficient and intelligent manner – digital and physical – is a necessity.
For the past three years, the Hybrid COOLing & management for IT project has been focussing its energies on the smart management of electricity consumption of server rooms in tertiary buildings. Its key goal is to develop a set of processes that can be replicated through standardization.
In this context, the BDTA Building Digital Twin Association, consortium partner of the HYCOOl-IT project, has proposed a new CEN workshop. The workshop will centre around the concept of SIMBOT – an open source, semantic expression of mathematical models of a market equipment. The challenge of the workshop is to understand the methodology of SIMBOTs and how these can aid in the integration of market equipment into simulation software. Being able to provide simulation in real time would improve energy performance and supervision, while trustable and clear equations would result in lower costs of simulation and greatly facilitate integration for both manufacturers and software developers.
The workshop will focus on solving 6 problems:
- SIMBOT conceptualization: input, outputs and parameters for tracking;
- How to define performance curves based on product information (usually public data sheets);
- how to generate the semantic information to add in the knowledge Graph of SIMBOTs:
- How to implement a library component in a legacy simulation software using the semantic information extracted from the knowledge graph;
- How to use in practice the SIMBOTs for big models;
- Practical details and use of simulation for real time.
The resulting CWA will focus on the concept of the mathematical representation of the equipment. It has the potential to be an innovative piece of standardization work which could serve in the future as the basis for a European standard.
The kick-off meeting will take place remotely via Microsoft Teams on 20th May 2026 from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. (CEST). To attend, please use this link.
All interested parties are invited to submit comments on the draft Project Plan using the commenting form below, to the Workshop Secretary Esther Bermejo Núñez (ebermejo@une.org) by May 8th, 2026.
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