Topics of interest
Smart buildings and urban infrastructures
- Integration and management of local and renewable energy sources.
- ICT solutions for smart building and urban infrastructures.
- High efficiency HVAC (biomass, solar thermal, ambient thermal and geothermal with heat storage and co-generation).
- Green infrastructure to reduce heating and cooling needs.
- Smart urban lighting (lighting smart grids).
- Nearly zero-energy buildings and positive energy buildings.
- Retrofitting of existing buildings and sustainable building materials.
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Smart supply and demand side management
- Smart grids applied to optimization of demand response.
- Smart metering and related services for energy, water and waste.
- Monitoring and balancing the grid.
- Real-time energy management.
- Energy storage and use with stationary applications and electric vehicles (EVs).
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Services for better-informed citizens
- Provision of data and information to citizens.
- End-users on energy consumption/production.
- Multimodal transport.
- Mobility services.
- Feedback mechanisms and adaptive systems.
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Sustainable urban mobility
- Operation of EV fleets powered by alternative energy.
- Vehicle to Grid (V2G), Vehicle to Building (V2B) and Vehicle to Home (V2H).
- Vehicle charge stations.o Electric public transport vehicles.
- Using hydrogen as an energy carrier for storing energy and balancing demand at city level.
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Strategic planning for identification, integration and optimization of flows (energy, emissions, people, goods and services)
- Open Government and Open Data Polices.
- Integration and optimization of different energy transport and data flows.
- Traffic management using information systems.
- Logistics.
- Development of green infrastructure and use of smart ICT to manage it.
- Optimized waste collection and energy generation there from, optimized water treatment and distribution.
- New business models in a smart city context.
- Open data platforms including semantics and data sharing.
