R&D Activities and Digitalization Go to contents 28 Improved performance Enhanced R&D and with IoT technology QA with in-house Staticus’ R&D team is exercising ways to Key achievements in 2022 testing rig integrate Internet of Things (IoT) technology In 2022, we worked on building the physical Funded by the 2014-2021 Norwegian Key achievements in 2022 in our façades with the goal of enhancing and software components required to Financial Mechanism Program “Business Our activities in 2022 were focused on the building performance, and reducing have a fully functioning façade monitoring Development, Innovation and SMEs” EEA design and planning for this rig. Production maintenance costs. Achieving this can have application. This application will be used and Norway Grants, we are constructing a of the rig began in the later part of the year. a significant impact on carbon emission by the Staticus Care team to identify and testing rig on our premises in Vilnius. In Q4, the steel parts were successfully reduction over the lifetime of a building. address potential issues using a predictive fabricated, pre-assembled for quality maintenance system. The additional rig with a larger capacity inspection at their manufacturing plant. The team is developing façades with will be operated by the Project Technology integrated sensors. These sensors deliver Our project partner KTU worked on creating Unit team. They will continue to ensure real time data to a digital twin, allowing the digital twin concept, which is now in the that every Staticus project is verified via us to monitor façade performance. Once final stages of development. Meanwhile, physical testing both before production Focuses for 2023 this data is integrated into the building OsloMet and SINTEF, who are also project begins, and throughout the production In January 2023, the steel parts arrived management system (BMS), the BMS can partners, continued with the development process. at our facility. be optimised for improved energy use and of a predictive model to alert Staticus Care faster responses to changing conditions personnel of potential non-conformance The team will be able to use this rig for Construction and calibration of the rig will or potential issues. This is because our issues in the hybrid unitized façade. Our visual mock-ups as well as performance be completed in Q2 2023. sensors are able to collect data that is partners ADD Business Solutions worked on testing. The rig is large enough to otherwise unavailable to traditional BMSs, the development of the cloud platform that accommodate over-size units and creating much richer datasets. will ingest, store and process the collected enable us to run full test sequences in sensor and weather data. accordance with CWCT and European Another important advantage of IoT is standards at our premises. It will also related to façade end of life and component Focuses for 2023 further enhance our in-house quality I believe that these activities, and our long reuse. By tracking and archiving information control and quality assurance programme. term commitment to R&D, are boosting the on components in our digital twin library, we Our goal for 2023 is to integrate all of these Furthermore, it will be a valuable asset for “ will be able to accurately determine which components into a user friendly online and our R&D and prototyping work, allowing innovation mindset within Staticus, providing components are still reusable. We can mobile platform. This platform will stream our engineers to quickly collect a range a space similar to a playground where people then plan for their retrieval and reuse. This live data from our IoT mock-up, providing us of testing data without having to leave will allow us to have an impact on parts of with proof of concept. Staticus’ facility. can test, try and experiment. the value chain that we are not yet directly involved in. Aušra Vankevičiūtė, Group CEO, Staticus