AccesS aims to reshape accessibility and inclusivity in smart buildings and cities through its Universal Accessibility Suite initiative.
Using advanced technologies like AI, BIM, and GIS, AccesS creates barrier-free environments, enables smooth mobility, and ensures equal access to essential services. The project delivers innovations for accessible and inclusive design through advanced life-cycle analytics, optimising energy efficiency, environmental impact, and user comfort. It also addresses e-mobility and micro-mobility to enable accessible transportation options.
The project emphasises user-centred design and co-creation with end users, and will demonstrate its approaches across six case studies covering three building types (cultural heritage buildings, people care facilities, and public service buildings) in five European Smart Cities in Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, testing the feasibility and scalability of its solutions in real-world environments.
Hive Power's main role within the AccesS project is focused on integrated e-mobility, leading the task that positions electric vehicles as active building elements. This role involves leveraging predictive algorithms and optimization capabilities to create an inclusive smart charging system that personalises EV charging schedules, prioritising users with disabilities and elderly people while respecting user preferences, grid capacity, and the energy requirements of the building infrastructure. The solution is demonstrated at Casa Girasole in Massagno (Switzerland), an elderly care home that is part of an energy community, in collaboration with AEM, the local Swiss Distribution System Operator (DSO).
This project has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No. 101147722 and by the Swiss Government.
