Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - STARDUST (HOLISTIC AND INTEGRATED URBAN MODEL FOR SMART CITIES)

Teaser

STARDUST serves as smart connector bringing together advanced European cities and citizens of Pamplona (ES), Tampere (FI) and Trento (IT) - with the associated follower cities of Cluj-Napola (RU), Derry (UK), Kozani (GR) and Litomerice (CZ).The objective of STARDUST project is...

Summary

STARDUST serves as smart connector bringing together advanced European cities and citizens of Pamplona (ES), Tampere (FI) and Trento (IT) - with the associated follower cities of Cluj-Napola (RU), Derry (UK), Kozani (GR) and Litomerice (CZ).

The objective of STARDUST project is to pave the way towards low carbon, high efficient, intelligent and citizen oriented cities, fully aligned with the Clean Energy for All Europeans strategy, by developing urban solutions and innovative business models, integrating the domains of buildings, mobility and efficient energy through ICT.
The aim is to test and validate these solutions, enabling their fast roll out in the market. The STARDUST project will demonstrate that the smart integration of these actions, together with other accompanying non-technological measures can provide a platform for citizens and community engagement.

The STARDUST cities will be a living lab to utilise the SCC1 call to design and validate a replicable model of Smart Cities, able to tackle all social, economic and environmental key aspects in an intelligent integrated way, by using novel ICT tools as sewing thread.

The main targets of STARDUST project are based on challenges identified in the forerun of the application development are:
• Target 1. To create several “innovation islands” as urban incubators where to demonstrate scalable, cost-effective and bankable urban scale solutions to significantly increase the energy efficiency in the STARDUST cities
• Target 2. To create smart ecosystems implementing a new economic paradigm in the European cities, based on eco-innovation, competitiveness, low carbon, circular economy, and the creation of new markets, modernising the obsolete economic approach based in a massive use of fossil fuels and high energy intensity
• Target 3. To create and deploy open city information platforms, an ICT infrastructure that overarches all project aspects (building, energy and transport) and engages lighthouse and follower cities, and a key enabler to implement the social innovation strategy, business ecosystem and behavioural changes goals foreseen in the project
• Target 4. To organise and foster the transfer of lighthouse cities solutions to the four follower cities, and to support the deployment of Replication Plans in each follower city as references for future European standards of Smart Cities

Work performed

• WP1: STARDUST technological clusters have been established and environmental, energy, mobility and ICT Key Performance Indicators have been deeply defined and described particularly for each pilot city. Besides, other tasks as energy supply strategy, integration actions or Smart City Matrix have started as scheduled.
• WP2: Establishment of the Local Coordination Board, Kick-off the Pamplona Pilot. Start working on the Detailed Pilot Plan and Start working on the preparation of the different technical tasks (T2.3 to T2.7), as well as launch the local communication and dissemination actions.
• WP3: Establishment of the Local Coordination Board, Kick-off the Tampere Pilot and start negotiations at internal and subcontracting level for demo actions. Start working on the different technical tasks (lighting, energy infrastructure, buildings, RES, e-mobility).
• WP4: Establishment of the Local Coordination Board, Kick-off the Trento Pilot and start working on the different demonstration actions of energy/buildings (building retrofitting, PV systems, building energy management, district heating), start working on integration of local RES & mobility through ICT.
• WP5: Establishment of the deployment desks, mission visits and start of analysis of each follower city needs, skills and potential of profitable methodologies, tools and lessons learnt to be analysed from each lighthouse pilot to each follower city.
• WP6: Start development of tools for monitoring and impact assessment. Start analysis of Data Management Plan. Start knowledge share and integration with other European initiatives.
• WP7: Finalisation of the guidelines and the toolkit for the activation of the Smart Innovation Ecosystem; Start of business models definition for each Lighthouse city.
• WP8: Dissemination & Communication plan has been defined and some actions also launched (website, logo, templates, graphic style, presence in twitter, project videom events). Start of public communication and of integration in smart city networks.
• WP9: Development of Tools for management, web repository for document storage and sharing, overview of interdependencies, overview of project objectives, targets and indicators, Kick-Off meeting in month 1 and an executive board meeting in month 6.
• WP10-ETHICS: Ethical requirements affecting STARDUST have been identified, discussed and final framework established

Final results

SMART DISTRICT AND BUILDINGS:
• Deep energy rehabilitation approach taking nZEB as reference;
• Energy performance active metering, monitoring and demand side management by setting-up set up an online monitoring and data management concept
• Co-opportunities and co-benefits from smart district and buildings development by using the Smart and Sustainable District Energy Project concept (SSEDP)
• Overcoming the barriers to the implementation of smart district and smart buildings by finding solutions to strengthen business planning for public-private partnerships

ENERGY GENERATION AND USE:
• High efficiency district heating and cooling systems. STARDUST approach beyond SoA will involve the integration of: ORC on large scale CHP district heating; renewable energy integration on high-efficient district heating & cooling, biomass, geothermal, biofuels; Free-cooling from lake; o Heat waste recovery: heat recovery from industry to supply district heating; demand response/big data control: DH&C management; large scale for residential sector; policy instruments and financial models: in order to overcoming administrative and financial barriers to promote high efficiency large scale district heating and cooling.
• Smart grids for: Integration of electricity, batteries for residential sector, new energy management strategies in combined systems, definition of clear value propositions for this new “prosumer” role of hybrid smart grids.
• Heat pumps for: Integration of GSHP and heat storage, Energy exchange through heat pump technology, Waste heat recovery from data center and Cool recovery at low temperature.
• Smart lighting with: Novel high-efficient technology; ITCs integration (street lamps are connected with each other (MESH) and to the network); integration of renewable energy for public lighting.

E-MOBILITY:
• Last Mile transportation solutions for goods or people
• Cost efficient E-Vehicle charging technology
• New incentives for e-vehicles

URBAN ICT APPLICATIONS:
• Low-carbon ICT systems will: promote server operation efficiency; build Low Carbon Cooling Systems for selected data centres in pilot cities and exploit the heat generated through the integration of ICT infrastructures with facilities and processes that utilize the heat without sacrificing ICT performance; adopt a ‘Low Carbon-by-Design’ approach, gaining sustainable advantages in re-designing data centre facilities in pilot cities.
• Smart city ICT platforms to: provide a space for multi-stakeholders/users collaboration
• Open data, open services and open APIs
• Citizen participation: City apps and e-Participation tools

Website & more info

More info: https://stardustproject.eu/.