Smart city is not only the idea of building a smart city’s infrastructure, increasing the quality of life for residents. It also tools for reducing maintenance costs. A successful global examples of such implementation is still difficult to talk with the popular phrase “the city of the future”, because they were already present. The smart cities, you can use some of the solutions currently used by the industrial automation.
Eurostat data show that more than 70 percent of EU citizens live in cities. In Poland, according to statistics of the Central Statistical Office, city dwellers account for 60 percent. of the total population. The largest cities in terms of population in our country are Warsaw and Cracow, where the lives of 1.7 million and 760 thousand. people. Regular increase in the number of people living in cities around the world, brings with it many new challenges for the administration and infrastructure necessary for the growing centers. Among other things, because of the city are increasingly looking for solutions to reducing maintenance costs and the coordination of an increasing number of media, services and systems. Since these tools are expected to not only ensure that provide useful information for residents and management time, but also the fact that they are organic.
Smart city are mainly associated with investments in infrastructure . It is the change in the scope allow for centralization of control over urban infrastructure and sharing of information between different centers. In practice, this means, inter alia, increased ability to manage waterworks, sewers, street lighting systems and buildings, fountains and irrigation systems. Clever you can also control the pollution of the environment, transport network and the airport. Smart city is also smart buildings including public administration – which through the system in the field of building automation can, for example. closely monitor and model the energy consumption.
– Smart Cities and buildings are not “glass houses”, but the real, existing installations. Many of the solutions used so far with success in the field of industrial automation can be transposed to the building automation, which is usually formed with a view to specific projects. Such systems are also implemented in buildings not originally created as intelligent. An example of this test in our company, wireless building automation system Comodis – a solution that using radio waves integrates management of lighting, air conditioning, supervision, windows or heating sensors – said Stefan Życzkowski, president of the ASTOR dealing with automation, robotics and systems IT industry.
Experts point out that the smart city is primarily those involved in the creation of a universal repository of data collected to date. They should be collected from various sources and accessed in a common format so that there is the possibility of the involvement of third parties to create programs and applications that use the collected information. This data set is also a great tool for city services, which can see through the areas that will bring the greatest improvement in economic profit.
In the case of urban land transfer solutions for industrial automation it is worth while to emphasize the openness of systems. These closed mostly operate only on the basis of one or more technology manufacturers. Open while – give more opportunity to merge different types of installations or systems, which may be particularly valuable in the case of smart city infrastructure, assuming continuous development.
A spectacular example of an existing smart city is Ecocity Valdespartera Zaragoza with a total area of 243.2 hectares, which is close to 10 thousand. residential houses. This is one of the biggest social initiatives in Spain and the first urban development project. His goal was to create agglomeration, which will be a key aspect of the functioning of bioclimatic management. This entailed the need to include in the concept of an integrated management system in municipal buildings. The idea was to allow control of the reaction and verifying the correct functioning of distributed network, responsible for: drinking water, storm water drainage, irrigation, electricity, gas supply, street lighting, waste collection, energy efficient residential and control networks. Based on Wonderware solutions, managed to build an integral system of remote monitoring and control of urban services. It gives you the ability to analyze and evaluate the compliance of the criteria of environmental sustainability, remotely performs many urban activities. In this example you can see perfectly well that the energy-efficient urban design, although it seems to be more “song of the future” has already become a reality.
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