The Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will demonstrate smart building and smart city technologies for the first time outside of Japan.
It is part of an innovation and research district being developed in the Berlin TXL project at the former Tegel Airport in Berlin, Germany on September 1.
Using a legacy building at the Urban Tech Republic, the demonstration aims to improve energy efficiency, thermal comfort and operational efficiency.
It will also explore the potential for optimised energy management at the district-level by leveraging building data such as CO2 emissions.
The initiative will include technologies developed and verified at SUSTIE, Mitsubishi Electric’s ZEB (net Zero Energy Building) technology test facility in Japan.
This will be the first time these technologies are applied to a legacy building outside of Japan.
Since signing a partnership agreement in May 2024 with Berlin TXL Management GmbH (formerly Tegel Projekt GmbH), the developer and manager of the Berlin TXL project, the German Branch of Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been preparing for this demonstration by selecting target buildings and defining technical requirements.
For the demonstration, Mitsubishi Electric will develop an optimal operation plan for the air conditioning system using digital twin building simulation technology and optimal operation planning technology, both of which have been verified at SUSTIE.
The company expects to verify the prediction accuracy and effectiveness of balancing energy efficiency and thermal comfort in the legacy building. Furthermore, the project will test the effectiveness of building data utilisation for district-level energy optimisation.