Report
Teaser, summary, work performed and final results
Periodic Reporting for period 3 - GrowSmarter (GrowSmarter)
Teaser
GrowSmarter brings together cities and industry to integrate and demonstrate ‘12 smart city solutions’ in energy, infrastructure and transport, to provide other cities with valuable insights on how the solutions work in practice. The Lighthouse cities together with...
Summary
GrowSmarter brings together cities and industry to integrate and demonstrate ‘12 smart city solutions’ in energy, infrastructure and transport, to provide other cities with valuable insights on how the solutions work in practice. The Lighthouse cities together with industrial partners have implemented and are evaluating the solutions for energy efficiency, greenhouse gas saving capacity, economic viability and economic impact and replicability.
3 Lighthouse cities
GrowSmarter aims to stimulate city uptake of the ‘smart solutions’ using the three Lighthouse cities Stockholm, Cologne and Barcelona to show how \'smart solutions\' work in practice. The solutions are being tested in 3 different city areas – representative for many European cites: downtown city district, inner city suburb about to be densified and a former industrial/business area which is being partly turned into a residential area.
Stockholm, Cologne and Barcelona selected a site in their city where the 12 smart solutions have been rolled out over four years. The three Lighthouse cities host free of charge study visits and European workshops, which provide opportunities to see the technological applications of the smart solutions and meet the 25 industrial partners in GrowSmarter.
Targets and evaluation
The scope of the project is to:
• demonstrate and validate 12 economically and environmentally sustainable integrated smart solutions;
• foster collaboration between cities, businesses and academia to transform the smart solutions into business models to be rolled out across Europe;
• improve the quality of life for European citizens, reduce environmental impact and create sustainable economic development.
The demonstrations in the Lighthouse cities are not the primary aim, but a means to contribute to solving city challenges and create validated business cases to initiate a market roll out of the smart solutions to Follower cities, and to the rest of the European market, thus helping Europe Grow Smarter. The 12 solutions are designed to meet the three pillars of sustainability: economic, social and environmental concerns. Targets related to climate change, energy usage, transport emissions and jobs have been set as part of our ongoing evaluation.
Knowledge replication
Knowledge exchange and transfer is a key to the success of GrowSmarter. The five Follower cities Valletta, Suceava, Porto, Cork and Graz have closely followed the Lighthouse cities to learn from their experiences and to identify measures suitable for their specific local context. As part of the project, they have developed a smart city replication plan tailored to their local needs.
Project duration and funding
The GrowSmarter project has funding of €25 million from the European Commission’s ‘Smart cities and communities’ Horizon2020 research and innovation programme. The GrowSmarter project is working closely together with the other Lighthouse projects to maximise the impact and exchange of experiences. GrowSmarter kicked off on 1 January 2015 and runs until 31 December 2019. For more information, visit the project website www.grow-smarter.eu or follow us on Twitter @EUGrowSmarter.
Work performed
WP2 Low energy districts
WP2 has implemented measures to lower the environmental impact of the existing building stock through energy efficient measures. A total of 123,000m2 of building surface has been retrofitted to improve energy performance. Energy consumption visualization platforms have raised awareness among citizens. Buildings have been connected to local district heating and cooling networks, and equipment for on-site renewable electricity production has been installed with advanced software.
WP3 Integrated infrastructure
WP3 has implemented measures ranging from smart lighting, lampposts and traffic posts as hubs for communication and electric charging, to smart meter information analysis and actuators, smart waste collection as well as big consolidated open data platforms, including the integration of sensor data and heterogeneous data.
WP4 Urban mobility
WP4 has implemented measures that aim to enable and promote the adoption of smart and sustainable mobility solutions. The measures included smart building logistic and alternative-fuelled vehicles, sustainable delivery, smart traffic management, alternative fuel-driven vehicles for de-carbonising and better air quality, and smart mobility solutions.
WP5 and WP6 Technical and Economic Evaluation
Technical and economic evaluations and validation are currently underway based on data delivered by the project partners.
WP7 Replication
Capacity building workshops have been carried out in each Follower City. These have focused on the potential replication of smart solutions of interest to each of the Follower Cities.
WP8 Dissemination and communication
Four European workshops and seven study visits have been held. The project has published 27 press releases, and each month the website receives over 5,000 unique visitors.
Final results
STOCKHOLM
WP2: Condominia BRF Årstakrönet was first to have the European Innovation Award winning EnergyHub system installed by L&T. L&T also provided an adaptive technology for a central control system for heating with 10-15% energy savings. Measures to reduce hot water circulation losses have been implemented, and innovative heat pump technology was tested at Valla Torg. Waste heat from a data centre provides heat to the GrowSmarter tertiary buildings and other buildings in the region.
WP3: Adaptive LED-lighting at Valla Torg reduces energy use by almost 50%. The installation of Internet of Everything in an event arena provides added value for lighting, parking, transport, and maintenance. IBM and the City of Stockholm are testing a secure process of gathering camera-based sensor data.
WP4: Refuelling stations for alternative fuels are being installed. Another innovation in logistics is the delivery room, which provides improved parcel delivery service.
COLOGNE
WP2: RheinEnergie created a new business model with the Siedlungsmanagement software, which leads to an autonomous, self-sustaining development for communities that provides the residents with the opportunity to influence their own energy consumption.
WP3: Cologne installed a new sustainable Open Urban Big Data Platform (OUP) called UrbanPulse developed by [ui!]. New urban data sources were integrated to the OUP and published on the data catalogue platform. A new traffic app has been developed by the local public transportation company KVB.
WP4: Ten mobility station are being installed. The mobility stations, car-sharing and smart parking serve to improve traffic flow.
BARCELONA
WP2: The measures implemented are pushing forward the City\'s advancements in neighbourhood sustainability as well as transparent and inclusive governance.
WP3: The SmartTower solution provides new telecommunication micro sites and sensors. The API implemented for the Smart Lighting System communicates with other applications. The Multiservice Concentrator collects and uploads data from utility meters and sensors to the data platform, which can improve resource utilization.
WP4: Microdistribution has reduced the CO2 emissions and reduced the energy consumed. Smart taxi stands have helped increase the use of parking stations and reduce the empty cruising for clients. Fast EV charging stations have been installed.
Website & more info
More info: http://www.grow-smarter.eu.