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Aspern 38M€ Smart City Research, Vienna

Posted on 2015/11/092015/11/17 by SEC Team

Aspern Smart City Research (ASCR) located in a former 2,4 Millions m² airport area near Vienna is transfoming Aspern into a future “Smart Eco-City” with 20,000 residents and 20,000 new jobs. With 38M Euro investment, ASCR is a joint venture between the network operator Wiener Netze, the power producer Wien Energy, the technology company Siemens and Smart City Vienna. This partnership was established to develop smart and green solutions for the future energy environment in this new real-life urban Aspern area with active prosumers. This innovative approach uses Smart building automation systems, the renewable energy flexibilities of buildings and the demand response energy market to enable residents to cooperate and accept the Smarter Grid. All these solutions are based on comprehensive Smart ICT, testing and developing convenient big data models and suitable analytics for these new Smart Users.

The ASCR visit show-cased the 4 pillars of this projects:

Smart Grid: 12 MV-LV substations, 24 transformers and many sensors constitute the basic infrastructure of the Smart Grid Testbed. ASCR is exploring how to turn a traditional network into an intelligent Smart Grid network.
Smart Building: A residential building, a student home and a school campus constitute the smart building research objects of ASCR. Equipped with PV panels, solar thermal panels, hybrid panels, heat pumps and various thermal as well as electrical storage facilities, the buildings of tomorrow make consumers prosumers.
Smart ICT: Complex ICT systems facilitate the optimal management of the production, distribution, consumption, storage and transmission of energy. Smart ICT uses all of the data obtained from the buildings and the network (temperature, room air quality, electricity consumption, voltage, etc.) and external data to analyse the interaction and the interdependencies between the network and the buildings.
Smart User: Users represent an important part of the research activities because it ultimately depends on them how much energy the building requires and to what extent it can offer flexibilities to the Smart Prosumer.

Source: Aspern Smart City Research
Video: Aspern Construction Cranes Ballet

Enel Smart Distribution 2015 Expo, Milan

Posted on 2015/05/172019/12/15 by SEC Team

Enel is one of most important electricity and gas operators in Europe and Latin America, and is also the number one electricity business in Italy and number two in Europe for installed capacity. Enel brings to Expo Milano 2015 a Smart Grid for power distribution, built with an Energy Management System (EMS) to manage in

New Delhi Smart City, India

Posted on 2015/04/262015/04/30 by SEC Team

To make New Delhi a World class Capital, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is going all out to make the area in its jurisdiction a Smart City. While announcing the council’s annual budget, the NDMC chairperson talked about the various initiatives taken to bring Delhi at par with other smart cities across the world.

These are the steps that will be taken by the council:

Smart Poles: Using/replacing existing 18,500 Street Light Poles to LED and also mounting CCTV Cameras in addition to enable multiple next generation digital services based on WiFi/2G/3G/4G within the NDMC area, without any extra expenditure on the part of the council, on a revenue-sharing model.
Solar City Project: Master plan for generation of initially 4MW of solar power after award of NDMC-owned schools and offices’ roof-tops through open tender.
Waste-to-Energy Plants: Establishing a chain of waste to energy plants of small sizes in various localities of the NDMC based on different available technologies resulting in 100 per cent recycling of waste in an eco-friendly manner for maximising power/gas output.

The New Delhi Municipal Council area comprises of the creme de la creme territory of the Capital, which has been described as Lutyen’s Delhi. It comprises of important buildings like Rashtrapati Bhawan, Parliament House, Supreme Court, North and South Blocks and buildings abutting Central Vista and also all the diplomatic missions which function as territorial entities under the sovereign jurisdiction of their Flag States.

In addition three smart cities will come up on the Capital’s outskirts — extension of Dwarka in southwest Delhi, Rohini and Narela in the northwest — these cities will be modeled after the group housing concept, with uninterrupted power, water and wi-fi connectivity. With 20 lakh flats built in an organised urban set-up equipped with all amenities and guided by technology. Hospitals, schools, commercial complexes, green spaces and energy-efficient structures would be the other features.