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SMART CITY R&D ACTIVITIES IN VIENNA

Donia Lasinger, WWTF

15.10.2014

Brno

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Current and future challenges for cities are well known…

…the answers for these urgent and ambiguous questions areoften not found yet.

How will the mobilityof the future look

like?

Sources: Welt.de; kreis-calw.de; energie-krise.eu; stern.de

What are the effects ofclimate change caused by

humans?

Which kind ofheatingsystems do weneed?

How should cities as main players and consumers ofresources act?

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Vienna is responsible and acts! The city starts from a verygood point of departure.

Source : Boyd Cohen, Smart City Ranking Europa 2014

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Smart City Ranking (2014) Smart City Wien Framework Strategy

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Vienna has a broad Smart City Wien definition with “tripleimpact“.

Source : Smart City Wien Framework Strategy

2050 we manage to have the best quality of life for every citizenin Vienna and at the same time high resource conservation. It is

enabled by innovation.

ResourcesMobilityBuildingsEnergyInfrastructure

InnovationR&DEconomy Education

Quality of LifeEcologyHealthSocial Inclusion

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Three long-term goals give guidance

Source : Smart City Wien Framework Strategy

ResourcesPer-capitagreenhouse gas emissions in Vienna drop by at least 35% by 2030 andby 80% by 2050 (compared to 1990)

InnovationIn 2050, Vienna is an innovation leader due totop-end research, a strong economy andeducation

Quality of LifeVienna maintains itsquality of living at thecurrent superlative leveland continues to focuson social inclusion in ist policy design: as a result, Vienna in 2050 isthe city with the highestquality of living and lifesatisfaction in Europe

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Smart city R&D activities in Vienna (academia)

Resources

Quality ofLife

Innovation

AITAustrian Institute ofTechnology TU

Vienna University of Technology

BOKUUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

University of Vienna

WUVienna University of Economics and Business

ZSICentre for Social Innovation

IFF

MUWMedical University Vienna

LGBLudwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

SBASecure Business Austria

FTWTelecommunicationsResearch Center Vienna

VRVIS

IT

ÖAWAustrian Academy of Sciences

WIFOAustrian Institute of Economic Research

FHFachhochschule Technikum Wien

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Examples (not complete)

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Vienna University of Technology –„Cities of the Future“

• Interdisciplinary research, ~20 research groups

• Components and whole system• Sustainable Mobility and

Transport Systems

• Intelligent Buildings and Settlements

• Efficient Energy Supply and Infrastructure

http://energiewelten.tuwien.ac.at/research/smartcity/ENSource : Vienna University of Technology, Gudrun Weinwurm

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Vienna University of Technology –„Urban Energy and Mobility Systems"

• Three-year doctorate course for 10 postgraduates

• Instituted by Vienna Public Utilities Company and the Vienna University of Technology

• Goal: research and development of scenarios for the path to a "sustainable, supply-secure, affordable and liveable city“

• Holistic and inter-disciplinary approach

• Led by Prof. Thomas Bednar (Institute of Building Construction and Technology)

http://urbem.tuwien.ac.at/presse/faqs/

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Austrian Institute of Technology

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• Austria's largest non-university research institute; specialist in key infrastructure issues of the future

• Over 1.100 employees

• Five departments:

www.ait.ac.at

Energy

• Integrated Energy Systems

• Energy Infrastructure

Mobility

• Transport Infrastructure

• Low-Emission Transport

• Multi-Modal Mobility Systems

Safety & Security

• Intelligent Vision Systems

• Future Networks & Services

• Highly Reliable Software and Systems

Health & Environment

• Biomedical & BiomolecularHealth Solutions

• Resource Exploitation and Management

Innovation Systems

• Foresight & Governance

• Technology Experience

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Information- and Communication Technologies – Bridgingscience and industry

FTWVRVISSBA

• Research center for Information Security

• 25 companies, 4 Austrian universities, 1 university of applied sciences, a non-university research institute, many international research partners to jointly work on challenges ranging from organizational to technical security

www.sba-research.org

• Research company in Visual Computing

• Active partner for research initiatives of the federal government and the City of Vienna

• Aim is to strengthen the innovation and competitiveness of Austria

www.vrvis.at

• Center for research and development of technologies for future communication systems

• Ecosystems of Telecommunications, Transport, Energy, and beyond

www.ftw.at

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University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

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• Institute of StructuralEngineering

• Univ.Prof. Martin Treberspurg

• Smart City focus on buildingssince 2010; transformation ofexisting buildings

• Demonstration-projects in model districts

• Development of „smart restructuring plans“ for singlebuildings, „Grätzl“ and districts

• Working in an European context (project EU-GUGLE)

• Institute for Transport Studies

• Univ.Prof. Gerike Regine,

• IST = Intelligent Transport Systems; cooperation project on traffictelematics

• Involves three federal provincesVienna, Lower Austria,Burgenland

• Founded 2006

• ICT in traffic: ongoingcollection of up-to-date traffic data andintegration in oneintermodal pool

Workgroup „SustainableConstructions“

ITS Vienna Region

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Industrial R&D research

• Vienna branch of the Austrian federation of industrialists andother business associationes are close partners of the smart city initiative

• Vienna IT strategy: co-development of projects between manyindustrial partners and public institutions

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