Miskolc city’s district heating system, reducing greenhouse gas emission by 40 percent compared with the previous gas-based heating system. The geothermal project produces 660,000-1,000,000 gigajoules (GJ) of energy annually providing nearly 32,000 households and 1,000 public amenities (university, swimming pool, etc.) with heat.
Switching on Darwin is a $10M project which is delivering smart technology to encourage innovative solutions and enhance community life.
The Huawei Intelligent Traffic Management Solution focuses on three service scenarios: traffic law enforcement, vehicle check and control, and traffic management. Ultimately, they enable governments to build a safe, orderly, and smooth urban traffic environment.
Traffic law enforcement: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to identify, take snapshots of, review, and punish traffic violations.
Vehicle check and control: Track and deploy suspicious or criminal vehicles based on big data.
The city of Vienna strongly supports the establishment of green walls. The green wall on the side of the MA48 office building was built in 2010 and has been under constant monitoring ever since. The city’s first green wall system is 450 m2 in size and consists of more than 3,000 m of lined stainless steel planting containers. The properties of the green wall are monitored with various sensors and its irrigation is provided by an automatic irrigation system. The summer cooling effect of the green wall is equivalent to the operation of 80 air conditioners of 3000 W each, 8 hours a day.
Rollet offers an innovative service that allows pass-through payment related to the car. The car essentially becomes a means of payment thanks to Rollet’s vehicle recognition technology, so there is no need to queue at the parking meter. Rollet parking will start registering in the apps. Parking will then start automatically on arrival at the barrier, at check-out trunk and payment will be made automatically, with a registered credit card.
Populus Street Manager helps city departments of transportation identify and communicate new street policies, including street closures due to emergencies, construction, special events, or temporary COVID shared street policies. Street Manager can also be used alongside Populus’ mobility management solutions which help city transportation authorities securely receive and analyse data from mobility fleets, such as shared scooters, mopeds, and cars, to support data-driven transportation policy and planning.
The city of Lahti in Finland has introduced a personal carbon trading (PCT) scheme to help reduce emissions from transport by encouraging a shift to sustainable mobility. Lahti’s strategic target is to reduce C02 emissions by 70 per cent from 1990 levels by 2030.
The City of Edinburgh Council will join cities across the UK and Europe and continue to act quickly to introduce temporary measures to make streets safe for walking, cycling and wheeling and helping you avoid unnecessary car journeys.
Their aims to make space for you to exercise and travel safely around the city, reduce risk while using the roads for travel or exercise, make space around shopping streets and in the city centre.
Covid-19 is accelerating the adoption of police robots in several cities such as Tunis in Tunisia, Guangzhou in China, and Chennai in India.
The aim of "BUDAPEST XV" smart phone application is the interactive involvement of the XVth district's inhabitants in the improvement of the cityscape, as well as the simplification of complaint and problem reporting and the acceleration of case management. All the user has to do is provide a description of the problem when submitting a new report, then select from the predefined categories the most appropriate, and finally specify the exact location of the problem.