Dirk is the managing director of Enisyst GmbH, a company providing intelligent control solutions for thermal and electrical energy systems on building and district level. In Sim4Blocks they are responsible for the implementation of control hardware and software enabling demand response...
Derek Watters: Head of Environmental Sustainability at Places for People
Derek has worked in Social Housing for over 27 years in Asset Management, Housing Management and Housing Development. He is now focused on Environmental Sustainability and has successfully implemented...
Challenges
Urban data governance is of vital importance for smart cities. Unfortunately, its implementation might be hindered by diverse barriers....
Challenges
The roll-out of integrated infrastructure can be accompanied with many challenges. When it comes to governance, there might be...
Challenges
The realization of low energy districts can be difficult due to several obstacles. For a start, using local energy...
Challenges
The activation of a local innovation ecosystem can be hampered by a variety of barriers. Testing innovations in a...
Challenges
The introduction of renewable energy and energy storage can be accompanied by various barriers that can be subdivided into...
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To push innovative procurement of smart city solutions, cities need to overcome some difficulties. On a social and behavioural...
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Cities that want to implement bike sharing systems within their communities do usually face various challenges and barriers that...
Challenges
The introduction of urban data platforms is often hampered by various factors. From a technological perspective, project teams regularly...
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The implementation of a sustainable energy management system can be accompanied by various challenges. Technological wise, the lack of...
Challenges
Low energy retrofitting is one of the main undertakings of smart city projects. Some of the challenges include: ensuring...
The Smart Cities information system published a Solution Booklet on Urban Freight Logistics, a topic which is very...
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Smart lighting systems and lampposts are often associated with technical problems. As a result, maintenance costs can...
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Gaining the interest and engagement of citizens is key to success for smart city projects. To...
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For more information on E-buses, don’t forget to read the SCIS E-bus...
Electric robot bus on its Kalasatama pilot route in summer 2019. Photo credits: Marja Vuorinen
CityFied demonstration site at Laguna de Duero, Valladolid, Spain
Interview by Anthony Colclough, EUROCITIES
GrowSmarter Urban Cockpit
Cecilia Sanz Montalvillo is a Senior Researcher in the Energy Division at CARTIF Technological Centre, Spain. She was the Project Coordinator of R2CITIES (FP7) and is currently coordinating the...
Imagine it is winter and the days and nights are cold, but you just put more clothes on and go to bed earlier, because you cannot afford to switch on your heating. This is the plight of many elderly residents who live in cities like London. The cost of living is high, and that includes...
It was not that long ago that a GPS tracking device installed in your car was a wonderful new technology, now it has integrated into our lives and become the norm rather than something exotic and strange. A car is also a carbon-intensive way of getting around, especially in a city with readily...
‘Gnōthi seauton’, ‘know thyself’, is one of the most enduring pieces of ancient Greek wisdom. Knowledge is power, and knowledge of yourself is power over your actions. This ancient adage lay at the heart of the hypotheses of the ME2 project: if people can understand their energy use,...
MOEEBIUS Mafra Jardim de Infancia Venda Pinheiro (Picture: ISQ Group)
In Mafra, machines are learning to care for humans and for the environment. As part of the MOEEBIUS project, engineers are developing a software that let’s machines discover human preferences, and how to save energy...
Anthony Colclough: Hello and welcome to Urban Reverb, the SCIS Smart Cities Information System podcast. I'm Anthony Colclough. Today I'm speaking to Esra Demir who has been working in Turkey on the demo side of the CitiFied project in Soma and the Remourban project in Eskisehir. These building retrofit and district heating system projects aimed to seriously reduce energy consumption and met with many successes. However, a number of issues, including an attempted military coup, through hurdles in the projects’ paths. Good morning Esra.
Anthony Colclough: Hello and welcome to Urban Reverb, the SCIS Smart Cities Information System podcast. I'm Anthony Colclough. You can find links and the entire transcript of this episode at www.smartcities-infosystem.eu.
Today I am speaking to Anders Carlsson of the Varburg demo site, and Dominique Deramaix of the Stambruges demo site of the Need4B project.
Anders Carlsson: Hello Anthony
Anthony Colclough: Hello and welcome to Urban Reverb from smartcities-infosystem.eu. I’m Anthony Colclough. Today, we're hearing from three cities involved in large-scale projects. Brussels, where the CIVIC project is reducing congestion and pollution by harmonising construction site logistics…
Tom Van Lier: Who is the actual problem owner? You don’t find anybody. Nobody says they own the problem.
AC: I'm Anthony Colclough, hello and welcome to Urban Reverb from the SCIS Smart Cities Information System at smartcities-infosystem.eu
Today we're going to be unravelling a mystery - two identical houses built with the most up-to-date energy saving technology, insulation on the walls and windows, solar panels, specially angled window shades, heat exchange systems, you name it, they have it.
AC: I’m Anthony Colclough and this is Urban Reverb, brought to you by the Smart Cities Information System at smartcities-infosystem.eu. Welcome back to the first ever European Smart Cities Podcast Series. Today we're talking about retrofitting, and no, that doesn't mean trying to squeeze back into your old flared jeans and costume jewellery.
Anthony: I’m Anthony Colclough, and this is Urban Reverb, brought to you by the SCIS, Smart Cities Information system, at smartcities-infosystem.eu. I know how my parents would feel if they thought I was bidirectional, but what about a bidirectional car? Today we’re looking at bidirectional car charging, or ‘vehicle to grid’ and the first question that springs to mind is: ‘What is it?’
Menso: Chargers of cars which go two ways, so they load, they charge the cars, but they also can uncharge the cars and add it to the electricity network.
Dr Craig Lee Martin began his academic career at The Manchester School of Architecture (MSA, UK). As Head of Technology at the MSA his primary motivation was to increase the architectural awareness of climate change, and to create an educational environment and attitude that could respond to it...
With a diverse educational background ranging from Medicine to Tourism and Public Relations Gotzone Sagardui has devoted her professional career to the public service. She has worked for nearly twenty years in the Basque Country University and then as a Chief of Health Care at the Socio-sanitary...
Usman Haque is Founder of Umbrellium - collective of architects, designers, tactical urbanists and creative technologists based in London. Besides the Umbrellium collective (formerly Haque Design + Research), Usman is...
We did a brief interview with Ali Vasallo, Project coordinator of CITyFiED, who highlighted the key learnings from their experience with technical monitoring and KPIs definition.
Dr. Ali Vasallo ...
Carsten Rothballer is Coordinator in ICLEI’s Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience team. Expert at ICLEI Europe since 2009 addressing climate policy issues, with project experience in training, energy planning, integrated management and infrastructure, resilience, risk assessment and...
