Initially conceived as a means for elementary continuous assessment and certification of the Smart Readiness status of buildings as one of the key capability assets for their involvement in energy flexibility transactions, leveraging on the emerging commonly adopted SRI methodology, the released BEYOND Energy Performance and SMArt Readiness Certification (EPSMARC) tool also features additional more elaborate and specific relevant real performance analytics and optimization related to SRI assessment and upcoming certification, and integrated with the BEYOND Platform.

The EU-wide adoption of the SRI methodology and rating scheme has notably gained traction in the meantime since last year, with the initially volunteered six front-running pilot member countries all making concrete progress steps in the national implementation, and additional two (Slovenia and Spain) also joining in. These uptake advancements and the parallel evolution of the methodology have been addressed by the corresponding developments of relevant detailed EPSMARC features like:

• Support for the definition (and updating) of custom service catalogues and domain service types, additional to the already implemented default common simplified and detailed catalogues A and B defined and maintained by the methodology. All these updates and changes are historically versioned and recorded, reflecting on the metadata and relations of measured performance data assets to domain service levels, and providing full traceability.

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• Additional flexibility and finer-grained parameterization for adaptability of SRI scores calculation, such as the supported definition of custom weight factors for service domains and sub-domains, ability to configure calculation parameters (like “Triage”) on catalogue or instantiated per-assessment level, etc.

These customizations (primarily of catalogues as intended in the methodology) are going to be exploited in the phases of testing and full implementation and adaptation of the SRI framework to national adoptions and contexts, increasing the exploitability potential of the EPSMARC tool on national or regional levels.

The landscape of available SRI-related tools (some of which can be considered potential market competition to EPSMARC), has also recently been rapidly expanding, mainly with tools being developed in the scopes of the related EU-funded LIFE CET projects, and some Horizon-funded projects. Most of these tools primarily (or only) support the elementary core workflow of SRI assessment and certification process – service levels assessment, scores calculation and certificates management, complemented eventually by integration or extraction of the building technical documentation and modelled/projected data, understandable and expected as those core processes still need to be implemented and supported first in the adoptions and implementations of the framework. Still rare (and not commercially released) tools like the Smart2B Performance Assessment and Advisor, seem to tackle thoroughly the complexity of linking the real performance data to SRI domain contexts. With its relevant advanced features, like

• the comparative analysis of building smartness and overall characteristics per real measured performance data as well as per prospective possible SRI scores calculated in simulated “what-if“ self-assessment scenarios, and
• the integration with the BEYOND Platform and trusted-sharing ecosystem, enabling the exchange and analysis over benchmarking and reference Big Data much broader than scoped in the tool itself, as well as the linking of data assets to SRI context leveraging the BEYOND Com-mon Information Model (CIM), and more.

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EPSMARC still remains the most comprehensive and relevant for advanced SRI framework adoption phases in years to come.

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