Overview of F|Heat
==================

F|Heat is composed of several core components that work together to facilitate energy planning:

- **F|Heat.map**: Manages data related to buildings and roads, focusing on the visualization and analysis of heat planning data.
- **F|Heat.net**: Focuses on designing and visualizing heating networks, including cost estimations.
- **F|Heat.tec**: Aggregates and visualizes annual heat demands, network areas, and supports storage calculations.

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    - **F|Heat.ai**: QGIS plugin for merging and making the system components usable with an explanatory user interface as an initial step.

These components are provided together in a package, whereby each system component covers a sub-area of the planning and includes different development stages and will go through them in the future (see table in :ref:`dev_roadmap`).

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    The initial user interface is called F|Heat.ai and this also formulates the requirement for future development, namely that the individual components interact with and on top of each other with AI support and enable chatbot and AI-supported planning.

F|Heat.map
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**F|Heat.map** is responsible for the procurement, enrichment, aggregation, and visualization of building and road data in compliance with federal guidelines.
It allows for:

- Automated process based on NRW's data structure.
- Additional loading of the 2022 census data
- Visualisation of heat density on building blocks and as heat line density

F|Heat.net
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**F|Heat.net** handles the conceptual design, layout, and visualization of heating networks.
It includes:

- Design of radial heating networks with specific flow temperatures.

F|Heat.tec
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**F|Heat.tec** aggregates and visualizes annual heat demand data and network areas.
It provides tools for:

- Heating demand calculation as an hourly annual curve and an ordered load profile.

.. _dev_roadmap:

Development Roadmap
-------------------

Release version 0.1.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

+-----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| **Component**   | **Release version 0.1.0**                              |
+=================+========================================================+
| F|Heat.map      | Procurement, enrichment, aggregation and               |
|                 | visualisation of building and street data in           |
|                 | accordance with federal guidelines for heat planning.  |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.net      | Design (radial) heating network with flow temperatures |
|                 | of 80°C (max.) and 65°C (min.).                        |
|                 | Specification of costs for pipe construction           |
|                 | (without civil engineering costs).                     |                        
+-----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.tec      | Aggregation and visualisation of the annual heat demand|
|                 | of the designed grid area (incl. simultaneity) as      |
|                 | annual values.                                         |
+-----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+

Version 1.0.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| **Component**   | **Version 1.0.0**                                                                |
+=================+==================================================================================+
| F|Heat.map      | Expansion to other federal states, possibly Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein.    |
|                 |                                                                                  |
|                 | Mapping of potentials: Areas for ground-mounted solar thermal energy,            |
|                 | geothermal energy, water thermal energy, underground reservoirs.                 |
|                 |                                                                                  |
|                 | Determination and visualisation of the "socio-economically best solution"        |
|                 | as supply areas in the municipality under consideration.                         |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.net      | Improved network design (dimensioning and routing).                              |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.tec      | (automated) heat storage calculation and improvements for load profiles VDI 4655 |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Future version(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| **Component**   | **Future version(s)**                             |
+=================+===================================================+
| F|Heat.map      | Automated demand modelling of buildings in the    |
|                 | planning region.                                  |
+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.net      | Intermeshed grids, multiple feeders/prosumers,    |
|                 | substitutions/different temperature levels,       |
|                 | anergy grids.                                     |
+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.tec      | Various heat storage options and suggestions for  |
|                 | storage locations.                                |
+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| F|Heat.ai       | Online interaction with the user to develop the   |
|                 | system by prompting the user to provide           |
|                 | information.                                      |   
+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------+