Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions is proud to be part of the UPCHANGE project; an EU funded initiative strategically addressing the integration gap between buildings and district-level systems through scalable, data-driven innovation. Funded by the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) under the 2023 Joint Call, UPCHANGE (Urban Positive Clean Neighborhood Energy Transition) brings together academia, businesses, and a municipality towards revolutionising urban energy management. This multi-stakeholder consortium will enable the evaluation, validation, and scalability of the project’s solutions across diverse European urban contexts, with the aim to deliver repeatable impact.

Cities must rethink energy management; traditionally, digital tools for energy have operated at the building level, leaving district-wide coordination fragmented. UPCHANGE addresses this challenge, offering a wide range of solutions by leveraging interoperable data tools, data analytics, AI-driven forecasting, and optimisation technologies, aiming to unify energy flows across multiple units, turning isolated efforts into cohesive, positive energy neighborhoods and creating resilient, and sustainable urban energy systems, powered by AI, interoperability, and human-centred design.

Suite5’s Strategic Role

Suite5’s role focuses on developing and delivering state-of-the-art interoperable ICT tools especially in the domains of data analytics, machine learning, semantics, and trusted data sharing, that can enable real-time, intelligent energy orchestration and which ultimately can assist in bridging buildings and districts. More specifically, SUITE5 is heavily involved in the design and deployment of digital technologies, focusing on interoperable tools that can support communication with heterogeneous sources (buildings, DERs, weather, etc.),while supporting robust large-scale data management (Solution 5); as well as on advanced AI analytics for demand/generation forecasting and flexibility profiling (Solution 6). Overall, SUITE5’s contributions will ensure that UPCHANGE can deliver scalable, replicable systems for data-driven and AI-powered real-world urban energy transformation and optimisation. In the months and years ahead stay tuned for updates on our project’s progress and results; and visit the project’s website and social media accounts to discover how UPCHANGE is driving the transformation of urban energy systems across Europe.