The BioHeating Tool

This is the server application developed in the BIOHEATING project. It can be used to predict the heat demand for a set of buildings and for drafting a local heat net. A project created with this tool can be then exported to Sophena and further edited there. It has the following features (still under development):

• CityGML import for building data
• OSM import for street data
• 1st model for heat demand predictions
• UI with an interactive map for editing
• Calculating and exporting the heat net layout

Running from source

First, you need to create a Postgres database with the database schema and settings as defined in the application.properties.

The back-end is a SpringBoot application and is located in the server folder. You can just run the App in your favourite IDE or from the command line:

cd server
mvn spring-boot:run

The user interface is built with TypeScript, React, and Webpack. The UI source code is located in the ui/ directory:

cd ui
npm run dev

This runs webpack watch mode, which automatically rebuilds the UI when source files change and outputs the built files to server/static/.

For a production build:

cd ui
npm run build

This runs webpack in production mode and outputs the built files to server/static/.