Smart Cities Information System Project Overview
Opening address with a presentation of the SCIS general objectives
Organisation:
Opening address with a presentation of the SCIS general objectives
Sustainable Energy Action Plans – what is the role and why are they important? Monitoring reports – a general overview
Sharing experiences: CELSIUS project results, challenges and solutions in data monitoring
Sharing experiences: DIRECTION project results, challenges and solutions in data monitoring
End-user presentation: what do city planners expect from the SCIS database?
End-user presentation: what do building project developers expect from the SCIS database?
Presentation of the SCIS data monitoring & data collection: simplification and evolution towards self-reporting & data visualisation for targeted audiences
SCIS presentation: communication and training plan
Pathways for Replicating Smart Solutions - Reflections of the Smart City Lighthouse Project GrowSmarter
Smart Cities & Communities Market Place: Smart city replication: spreading solutions, technologies, and innovations
Sharing experiences: project results, with a focus on dissemination and exploitation of smart cities innovation looking at DIRECTION, BRICKER, R2CITIES, CITyFiED, REMOURBAN projects
Sharing experiences: CELSIUS project results, with a focus on dissemination and exploitation of smart cities innovation
SCIS and smart cities projects: how can we best achieve our common objectives?
‘With 75% of EU citizens living in cities, cities are part of the problem, but also represent the solution’. The first European Smart Cities Project Coordinators Meeting took place Tuesday, bringing together project leaders, town planners and architects to discuss their experiences and lessons learnt from managing projects. The goal of the meeting was to gain feedback on ways to efficiently process information through the Smart Cities and Communities Information System (SCIS) web platform and to ensure project replication across Europe.
Eric Lecomte, EC Technical Officer, opening the meeting, said the SCIS portal should offer solutions for those setting up Smart City initiatives, and not just illustrate the potential problems. ‘Challenges appear at every stage. The SCIS should represent a One-Stop-Shop for sharing information and experience.’
SCIS is a continuation of the Concerto series of initiatives, which began in 2005. Several of the Concerto funded projects were showcased (including CELSIUS, DIRECTION and PIME). Those present stressed the need for reliable data, and noted the challenges created by public authorities and local regulations whilst highlighting the many cultural, climatic and socio-economic differences in projects. All the meeting participants agreed that Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) should take into account not only the synergies of projects, but also their individual features.
Architects and town planners insisted that the SCIS database needed to assist in the goal of making projects financially viable in the long term through ongoing collaboration with national, regional and local authorities. ‘Energy efficiency needs to be considered in the design stage not just as an add-on at the end of the project’, said one architect. ‘Yet currently it carries too much financial risk.’ As well as developing a project database from which KPI’s can be calculated based on data from Smart Cities initiatives, the SCIS team will produce analysis and recommendations that will contribute to policy development in the sector.
Further Smart Cities Project Coordinators Meetings will take place annually.