UNSUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION OPPORTUNITIES
NCDs OPPORTUNITIES
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SOLUTIONS SEIZING THIS OPPORTUNITY:
Putting Data into Action Opening and sharing data is a key theme in many smart city solutions globally. Open data can make create greater integration across sectors and can be a strong tool for public participation in city development.
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City Data Transparency for Crowdsourcing Innovation
Testing New Smart City Initiatives
NYC OpenData is a platform that makes a vast array of data generated by New York City agencies and other organizations freely available for public use. Many themes, including transportation, environment, social services, public safety, business, and education are covered by available datasets.
The Amsterdam Smart City platform unites over 70 partners in business, government, and research with a vision to fuel economic growth and environmental sustainability by establishing the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area as a smart city.
The initiative aims to bolster accessibility, transparency, and accountability in city government by centralizing previously isolated sources of information from which meaningful innovations, including mobile apps, can be developed.
Aiming to create generate connectivity, the project employs an inclusive approach to developing and piloting new programs relating to many aspects of urban life and infrastructure. Acquired knowledge and experiences are made freely available online.
Adopting a National Smart City Strategy India has declared its ambition to develop 100 smart cities by 2022, setting goals for a range of areas including energy use, water and waste management, sanitation, green transportation, ICT, and smart buildings. It also envisages developing modern satellite towns around existing cities as a part of this program. The government allocated 1.2 bn USD to the Smart Cities strategy in the 2014–5 fiscal year.
Cooperation Between Citizens, Businesses and the City The Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP) is an effort to develop a model for smart cities by means of cooperation between citizens, private companies, and the municipality. The project focuses on large-scale operational experiments in energy management, organized by the City of Yokohama and private partners.
ENERGY SAVINGS Better information on energy use opens for significant energy savings and consequently less pressure on the environment. An estimate puts the potential global savings at 170 bn kWh per year.
EFFICIENT POWER GRIDS It costs to modernize the electricity grid. However, studies have calculated that the related savings exceed the costs by far. A recent study estimated the cost to realise a US Smart Grid is about 400 bn USD, but the benefits exceed this by a factor of 4.5.
EFFICIENT BUILDINGS Improving energy management in commercial buildings, including investment in more advanced control systems and recommissioning buildings to ensure they are functioning properly has strong return on investment, about 40 percent for new buildings and 90 percent for older buildings.
EASY TRANSPORTATION CHOICES
Dynamic Parking Pricing
Information-Sharing Across Sectors
Under the slogan “Circle Less, Live More,” SFpark manages parking demand in San Francisco by collecting and distributing real-time information about available parking.
Barcelona’s Smart City Strategy currently comprises about 122 projects classified into 22 programmes that cover all areas of city management, from lighting, water and waste management to innovation.
To help achieve the right level of parking availability, SFpark periodically adjusts meter and garage rates. The aim is to reduce double parking and the time drivers spend looking for parking, thereby reducing congestion, wasted time and fuel, while improving the speed and reliability of public transit and road safety.
In order to foster efficiency and use the resources of the city wisely, it is necessary to break down the traditional silos in which the city is organized. A city becomes truly “smart” when it lets data and logic flow across different domains.
Intelligent Streetlights Participatory Mapping of Slums The Map Kibera project uses publicly available technologies like GPS and OpenStreetMap to enable residents of Kenya’s biggest slum to create the first map of their streets and alleyways. Map Kibera is a platform for empowerment; giving residents a way to monitor and report on their own experiences of government initiatives. Working with themes like security, water, sanitation, health and education, the project improves the livelihoods of the residents in a participatory process.
Tvilight combines a small intelligent module that includes sensors, wireless communication, and a dimmer that can be installed on any existing dimmable streetlight, and advanced software that controls streetlights, monitors electricity usage, and analyzes traffic data. The system detects human occupancy to control the light intensity in an area. The lights dim during offpeak hours, but when a unit detects a pedestrian, bicycle, or automobile, surrounding lights return to full brightness. Multiple Countries
In many cities, it is hard for citizens to learn how to travel while generating the least amount of emissions, or to find safe routes for biking. Smart cities use geodata and publish real-time information about current traffic conditions and transportation alternatives so citizens can better plan their journeys.
SECURITY AND SAFETY Many people are afraid to walk in neighbourhoods that they believe are dangerous. Providing open, reliable statistics about crime in all areas of a city can help make its citizens feel more secure.
CONSUMER SAVINGS It has been estimated that by implementing smart meters European households can save 10 percent of their consumption. That corresponds to an average of around 60 Euros per year per household.
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