The value of model-based systems engineering for Scenarios for future living
About the report
This report demonstrates how Model Based Systems Engineering can represent measurement instruments, household characteristics, and selected relationships between household observations and the broader multi-energy system.
The transition of engineered energy systems towards greater sustainability and resilience entails complex coevolution within a socio-technical system of systems. As this transition unfolds, a diverse array of consumer and civic values may be realised and must be recognised in how energy systems are understood and managed.
Making this complexity explicit is a first step towards managing it. Systems engineering has long been applied to complex socio-technical systems such as aerospace and telecommunications, and Model-Based Systems Engineering is especially useful because it can represent complex system-of-systems relationships and integrate data from numerous cross-disciplinary sources.