Smart Living

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.

Parts of the street will function as a role model for modern forms of energy saving and production methods as well as on electronic transportation devices and their recharging equipment. The street shall demonstrate that with the present stage of technology development a climate friendly energy management and urban transportation is under the conditions of market prices possible.

Utrechtsestraat Climate street. In the Climate street we will determine which technologies, cooperative agreements and approaches are the most successful to make the city's (shopping) streets more sustainable on a large scale. With the aim of realizing CO2 reduction and environmental saving in the street. Carrying out and implementing sustainable solutions are central in this approach. The focus of sustainable solutions lies in three main areas: entrepreneurs, the public space and the logistics.

People are hardly aware of their energy use. This is often due to the fact that it is not visible in their homes. No attention is paid to devices that consume a lot of energy often causing these devices to be on stand-by unnecessarily. In the project Geuzenveld Sustainable Neighborhood smart technologies were tested that ought to change this tendency. More than five hundred houses dating from the fifties were provided with smart meters and some of them with an additional energy feedback display.

Gaasperdam is moving towards a process of innovative urban renewal. Bottom-up, using their energy of residents and the qualities already available in the area. Local people’s energy is an available commodity; residents have declared that they are aware of their local environment and want to work towards a better living space for the community.

Long ago, this area was all water. The NDSM story began in the nineteenth century with land that was sprayed in the IJ. For a century, ships were built here, at the largest shipyard in Amsterdam. Whole neighborhoods in North Amsterdam, including Tuindorp Oostzaan, were built to house the wharf employees. The district is closely interwoven with the industry. The Nederlandse Droogdok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij (Dutch Dock and Shipbuilding Company) went bankrupt in 1984 after a restart as NSM.

The purpose of the project was to find out which technologies and methodologies are practical when it comes to rendering monumental buildings. The shared office building, De Groene Bocht, was a part of this pilot. De Groene Bocht is a cooperative of complementary organisations that are frontrunners in sustainable innovation.

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.

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.

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.