Smart Governance

The strategy addresses key issues of flood management and water quality, while seeking to create the greatest possible synergy with the urban environment. A “cloudburst” tool box of urban interventions, such as cloudburst boulevards, cloudburst parks, cloudburst plazas, provides the basis for a dynamic and multifunctional system. This new generation of blue-green infrastructures addresses essential city services such as mobility, recreation, health and biodiversity, creating a strategic and feasible approach to ensure long-term resilience and economic buoyancy.

The Dutch water sector is facing the challenge of transforming its information provision in a rapidly changing environment and to prepare for the future. All stakeholders in the water industry must collaborate more intensively with each other, other authorities and private parties. This is only possible when information and knowledge are available to everyone in a standardised and reliable manner. Digital Delta is an open platform for providing and finding relevant data for water management in the Netherlands.

IBM and Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board create an operational dashboard that serves as a “command center” for monitoring, administering and managing the city’s water supply networks. By taking advantage of big data and predictive analytics technology, the BWSSB can better manage their complex water distribution system. BWSSB engineers can now modify the control valve settings and get real-time feedback on the changes to the water supply elicited by their actions.

The Intelligent Water solution helps make your operations and infrastructure more reliable and efficient. It integrates and analyzes a wide variety of data sources and provides both an intuitive way of visualizing and understanding patterns and anomalies, and an easy way of acting on them. The result is a view of water or wastewater operations that transcends individual systems, devices and departments.

The Municipality of Zaanstad has negotiated a new energy contract, that saves energy, stimulates the local production of renewables, and reduces energy costs substantially. The young energy company GreenChoice was selected as a contract partner for the coming years. The contract stipulates that the energy consumption of the Municipality will be reduced a full 15 % in the first two years. Greenchoice profits when a further reduction is realised, an innovative element in the contract that gives the energy company a clear interest in energy savings.

CELSIUS presents best practice solutions in the area of smart district heating and cooling by taking a holistic approach to overcome technical, social, political, administrative, legal and economic barriers. The project brings together excellence and expertise from five European cities with complementary energy baseline positions: Cologne, Genoa, London, Gothenburg and Rotterdam. The consortium includes technical expertise form leading energy utilities organization as well as international renowned research and innovation organisations.

Through the "Wireless Taipei ‐ Taipei Infinity" initiative, the Local Government of the city of Taipei has deployed a wireless LAN (WLAN) that covers over 90% of the city's population (2.3 million inhabitants). The service is available free of charge and there are no limits regarding the terms of access and frequency. The initiative has made the City of Taipei into the "City with the world's largest Wi‐Fi" according to JiWire. Citizens, visitors and business travelers can access the internet through their laptops, smartphones and mobile computers using this Wi‐Fi connection.

Due to the rising amount of day-trippers, the municipality of Amsterdam and bars in the harbour of IJburg wanted to facilitate Free Wifi. The success was enforced by the 4 leg cooperation between municipality, entrepreneurs, Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) and KPN. The initiative of combining fibre as wifi antenna connector has come up from ASC and the municipality. Together with café’s and KPN, the free wifi was set up.

Amsterdam Smart City and KPN are jointly developing new products and services aimed at showing the relevance of Fiber-to-the-home in home and work situations. KPN wishes to collaborate with other stakeholders in the development of services for its customers and for the city of Amsterdam. The coming years the use of Internet will continue to increase and so will the demand for broadband Internet connections. KPN and partner Reggefiber make annual investments in the laying of fibre-optic connections in several districts in Amsterdam, including IJburg.

LinkNYC is a new communications network that is replacing New York City pay phones with state-of-the-art kiosks called Links. Each Link is equipped with free services like high-speed Wi-Fi, phone calls, a tablet for web browsing, and device charging for anyone living in or visiting New York City to enjoy. In addition to Link’s features being free to the public, they also come at no cost to taxpayers. Over the next several years, over 7,500 Links will be installed across the five boroughs.