DEDALUS unveils its Educational Kit to advance smart, flexible, and user-centred energy systems
A practical learning guide to the concepts, technologies, and comfort-driven models that enable smart, flexible, and inclusive energy management.
DEDALUS has released its new educational kit, a concise resource designed for students, researchers, and professionals interested in residential energy flexibility and user-centred demand response. The educational kit is available for download on the DEDALUS website.
Developed by Università Politecnica delle Marche, NTUA, CARTIF, and ICONS, the kit introduces the fundamentals of residential demand response. It explains why buildings—responsible for 40% of Europe's energy use—play a crucial role in the energy transition.
The resource presents the project's three core services:
• Energy Flexibility Tool (FLEXiT), which forecasts consumption, disaggregates loads, and quantifies flexibility potential
• Comfort Flexibility Service, enabling personalised comfort management during DR events through environmental sensing and machine-learning models
• District-Level Energy Management System, coordinating shared photovoltaics, batteries, and electric vehicle charging to optimise community-level self-consumption
The kit also includes real cases from 3 pilots (Austria, Italy, Greece), showing how technical, behavioural, and community-level approaches converge in practice, and an annex summarising previous EU projects that laid the groundwork for DEDALUS.
Designed as both an introductory guide and a practical learning tool, the educational kit equips readers to understand—and contribute to—the future of smart, flexible, and inclusive energy systems.
"Educating students on demand response and energy saving is not only about technology—it's about people, said Gianmarco Revel and Sara Casaccia, who coordinated the academic contribution to the Kit at Università Politecnica delle Marche. "With this kit, we hope to inspire future engineers, researchers, developers, and designers to create digital and innovative solutions that respect both human comfort and our planet's resources".
Contact
Coordinator:
Diego Arnone, Engineering S.p.A, diego.arnone@eng.it
Communication:
Ilaria Orfino, ICONS, ilaria.orfino@icons.it
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