Building projects are always time-critical and usually take several years to be completed. Wouldn’t it be nice to save precious time by optimizing the system control with digital twins, before the system is installed?    

Read more about the revolutionary approach our customer foundation° has made and successfully demonstrated for a completely new energy harvesting system on board of a 70 m yacht.  

The final control logic has been developed using an FMU containing the transient digital twin of the HVAC system. Engineers were able to design and tune the control before the hardware system was even installed.  

A challenging aspect is that the Modelica model must always provide robust and reliable outputs for all inputs during testing and it needs to execute much faster than in real-time. We cannot verify all combinations of inputs the FMU may see during testing, and this is why it is important to have both an accurate and robust system model. The HVAC library successfully carries all our expertise we gained over the years in building projects and casts it seamlessly into a new field of application: naval HVAC systems.

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