AccesS

AccesS represents a groundbreaking initiative that aims to revolutionize the accessibility and inclusivity of smart buildings and smart cities. By leveraging advanced technologies and innovative solutions like AI, BIM and GIS, AccesS aims to create barrier-free environments, facilitate smooth mobility, and enable equal access to essential services and facilities. AccesS aspires to deliver innovations supporting accessible and inclusive design by providing advanced analytics for life-cycle assessments, optimizing energy, environmental, and user comfort aspects, incorporating simulation-based testing and compliance with accessibility guidelines for designing user-friendly and safe products and built environments. The project aims also to explore the relationship between comfort and energy consumption to promote sustainable practices and incorporates virtual user models and simulation environments. Furthermore, AccesS aspires to deliver innovations supporting inclusive, adaptive and sustainable operation of the built environment in order to optimize building operations in an adaptive manner depending on the needs of its users and addresses e-mobility and micro-mobility to facilitate accessible and inclusive transportation options. A particularly important aspect is the development of an Accessibility Assessment Scheme to define clear and measurable criteria, guidelines, and performance indicators for assessing accessibility. The demonstrators have been grouped under 6 case studies, focused on 3 different types of buildings/uses (cultural heritage buildings, people care facilities, public services buildings) and in 5 different locations in 5 European Smart Cities (Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Switzerland) in order to maximize impact and address numerous real-life situations. 22 partners from 9 European countries will collaborate and provide their expertise and resources within the 36 months of AccesS lifetime.

Under AccesS, CERTH/ΙΤΙ will act as Project Coordinator and will be responsible for the scientific and technical management of the project. Furthermore, CERTH/ΙΤΙ will be responsible for the development of the AccesS architecture and the definition of the system requirements as well as the implementation of 3D simulation environments for assessing the VUM-based Virtual Humans (VHs). CERTH/ITI will also lead WP6 – Intelligent Systems for Adaptive Building and Mobility Management, being responsible for the development of BOMS for energy management and optimisation. Overall, CERTH will contribute to various tasks regarding user requirements and design-for-all approaches, building design and simulation, components integration and system testing. Finally, CERTH will be involved in activities related to the AccesS Assessment Scheme, communication, dissemination and pilot support.

Consortium

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (Coordinator) (CERTH), Greece
EYFYEIS LYSEIS GIA KTIRIA MIDENIKOUKAI THETIKOU ENERGEIAKOU ISOZYGIOU- KOMVOS PSIFIAKIS KAINOTOMIAS AMKE (IsZEB), Greece
FREDERICK RESEARCH CENTER (FRC), Cyprus
IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS (FORTH), Greece
ENERGY@WORK SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA A R.L. (E@W), Italy
QUE TECHNOLOGIES KEFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA (QUE), Greece
DEMO CONSULTANTS BV (DMO), Netherlands
UNI SYSTEMS SYSTIMATA PLIROFORIKIS MONOPROSOPI ANONYMI EMPORIKI ETAIRIA (UNIS), Greece
LAMA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA – IMPRESASOCIALE (LAMA), Italy
ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL MUEBLE Y LA MADERA DE LA REGION DE MURCIA (CETEM), Spain
MUNICIPALITY OF GABROVO (MoG), Bulgaria
MUSEY DOM NA HUMORA I SATIRATA (MHS), Bulgaria
MY ENERGIA ONER SL (MIW), Spain
AYUNTAMIENTO DE MURCIA (MUR), Spain
COMUNE DI BARI (BARI), Italy
VAIMOO SRL (VAIMOO), Italy
COMUNE DI FIRENZE (FLO), Italy
ASOCIATIA DE STANDARDIZARE DIN ROMANIA (ASRO), Romania
BRUCO HUISVESTING ADVISEURS B.V. (BHA), Netherlands
HIVE POWER SA (HIVE), Switzerland
AZIENDA ELETTRICA DI MASSAGNO (AEM) SA (AEM), Switzerland
EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF AISBL (EUD), Belgium