Smart Governance

The Array of Things (AoT) is a network of interactive, modular sensor boxes around Chicago collecting real-time data on the city’s environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use.

Project Summary: Located near the El Paso International Airport, 16 EddyGT wind turbines line the highway, helping to showcase the city's growing commitment to sustainability. UGE and partner Better Living Technology LLC were involved with the project from the early design stages through installation. The turbines are mounted atop a custom-fabricated steel tower, fabricated by local metal shop Caid Industries and designed by Vicki Scuri, to complement the shape of the turbines and create an effect that instantly makes the turbines stand out on the skyline.

The trial is focused on various aspects of smart lampposts in public spaces. The lighting can be adjusted for a range of situations via remote operation or sensors, helping to improve security and save energy. Public lighting as a key application, providing safety, identity and facilitating traffic. It allows effective reduction of a city’s energy use. Public lighting is an existing infrastructure offering opportunities for diverse and innovative public service applications.

Flexible street lighting: As a company providing public services, Alliander sees it as her duty to facilitate the transition to a sustainable, reliable and safe energy supply. One of the elements Alliander focusses on is the sustainable development of public space.Maximalisation of market mechanisms: Alliander offers a 'Open Smart Grid Platform' that makes it possible to monitor and manage all kinds of different objects in public space, through any kind of application or communication infrastructure. Alliander hopes to stimulate the maximalisation of market mechanisms.

The control system supports the unused possibilities of street light systems so it synthetizes in one coordinated unit the saving and development elements. In the possibilities of intelligent control system each element may operate individually or grouped form. The system is feasible for optimal cost-effective operation. Significant savings can be made on the minor roads at night by partial lighting operation or with brightness control. Depending on the system abilities immediate 25-30 percent savings can be ensured while the residents' comfort level is not reduced.

eNOTO is a system based on image processing service that does not require a wired network installationand it works on mobile network. It is automatically capable to alarm based on image processing and it does not require constant human supervision so the evaluation of the license plate data is much easier than reviewing imagery for several hours. During the system test it is possible to do comparison with the recognized number plate data and wanted data in real time and provides an opportunity to set up for local monitoring.

400 employee strong operations center (50 operators) would consolidate 30 municipal agencies (ranging from emergency services like fire and medical to sanitation to public transportation) into a single, integrated command center that can monitor weather, traffic, and aspects of the city and react swiftly and effectively in face of emergencies and crises and would do so through cutting edge technology.

The response time guideline for ambulances is fifteen minutes, but they often get stuck in traffic. The Digital Road Authority allows ambulances to arrive on time by linking them to traffic control. This makes it for example possible to clear traffic lanes for emergency services, keep bridges closed when emergency services are approaching and provide emergency services with the quickest route, based on real-time traffic information. CWI is developing ‘what if scenario's’, based on models and probability calculations for optimal use of these possibilities.

In many municipalities, provinces and regions, local sustainable energy provisions have already been set in motion or realised. Sustainable (collective) energy provisions are set to play an even greater role in the composition of an area. However, new initiatives encounter numerous problems in the existing market structure, a framework determined by relevant legislation and regulations, the commercial energy market and contract market. Such legal frameworks often prove restrictive in regards to integrating the environmental and energy domains.

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