Smart City Maribor

By 2050 the world’s population is expected to increase from 7 billion to over 9 billion and nearly 70 % of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas, exacerbating environmental and social challenges1. Currently, around half of all urban population live in cities with between 100 000–500 000 people.

Cities are becoming more and more a focal point of our economies and societies at large, particulary of on-going urbanisation. Cities need to change and develop, but this change has to be achieved in a smart way: our cities need to become Smart Cities.

Smart Cities are systems of people interacting with and using flows of energy, materials, services and financing, catalysing sustainable economic development, resilience, and high quality of life; these flows and interactions become smart through making strategic use of information and communication infrastructure and services in a process of urban planning and management, which is also responsive to the social, economic and environmental needs of society.

1 OECD environmental outlook to 2050 The consequence of Inaction – Highlights

Nigrad d.d. is a utility company with more than 150-years long tradition. Nigrad d.d. provides numerous public utility (communal) services such as:• maintaining waste water treatment plants, • maintaining and managing public streetlights and other lighting facilities (e.g. traffi c lights,

Christmas decoration, …), • maintaining public roads, roads for cyclists, pavements, parking places, city’s green areas, ...• managing central register for several municipalities,• etc.

Nigrad d.d. has obtained several international certifi cates for quality of services, e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, showing that an emphasis is given to the quality, environmental preservation and social responsibility.

Vision of Nigrad d.d.:

to create a basis for the development of Maribor as a Smart City by merging local and global R&D capacities, cities and high-tech companies.

Nigrad d.d. - a sustainable utiliy company

• one of the world’s leading cities in the fi eld of technologies and services for Smart Cities

• a strong international Smart City development centre (test-bed), fostering innovation and international collaboration

Smart City Maribor

Nigrad’s existing projects initiate a number of Smart City projects with several national and international partners that actively participate by building and developing Maribor to become a pilot Smart City and further establish a smart region.

Maribor is a post-industrial city with a unique geographical location in Central Europe. Therefore, Maribor could become:

Smart City infrastructure presents one of the most important research and development priority areas at the global level. It relates to the development of ICT, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing and analytics of Big Data.

From the technological aspect a development of Smart Cities also opens and widens new areas that support innovative solutions and business models.

China and Slovenia need each other to build a bridge in their pursuit of economic, social and environmental development, where better collaboration will result in mutual benefi ts – Smart Cities.

Objectives:

• develop mutually benefi cial Sino-European Smart City Community, based on concrete collaboration between Maribor, Nigrad and Chinese partner cities, including high-tech companies

• realize a concept of the “community of common destiny” between China and Slovenia

Smart City Services

Cloud ComputingInternet of ThingsBig Data

Smart City services for end-users

“Real world” data of public infrastructure

Smart services for maintenance and management of public infrastructure

Case study - Smart City Winter Service

Ploughing and salting public roads

1) GPS vehicle tracking 2) GIS and mapping tools 3) Strong analytical and optimization tools 4) System maintenance and real-time inspection 5) Optimisation of driving directions and routes

Optimisation options offered by developed software:

• Time to plough • Total km traveled• Number of vehicles used• Interventions cases (e.g. wrongly parked cars, break downs ...)• Refi lling bases • Cost • Further optimization options

Maribor case:• 41 existing ploughing and salting plans

for Maribor when evaluated and optimised• In general, more than 30 % savings have

been reached, by defi ning optimal routes• Drivers are equipped with on-board

navigation systems supporting on-line optimisation of routes

• Savings are greater combining more optimisation options (e.g. refi lling bases)

Case study - A complete road audit service

A development of an innovative Smart City solution for a complete road audit service by using modern navigation and software tools.

Well educated team of experts and researchers ensures acquiring relevant and reliable “real-time” on-line data from the fi eld. These data presents key information by designing and executing road re-construction, including evidences and photo material.

Nigrad d.d. has a full (100 %) control on the whole road network situation, which ensures high quality services.

Modern equipment for in-situ (fi eld) work.

Defi nig micro-locations using GPS.

Determine road damages re-construction send info to data bases keep the records

in-situ working group

Smart Central Register for City’ s Infrastructure

Data model of the real world = spatial geolocation + attributes + time component

Enabling:• Architecture of time determined public infrastructure network• Digital control, management and maintenance of public infrastructure (roads, public lighting,

sewerage system, traffi c lights, green areas, …)• Modelling of future public Smart City options

Smart Green areas• Quality control, management, maintenance and design of the city’s green areas (mowing, loping,

planting, etc.)• Model green areas “working events” - gathering data about the workload, resources, recycling

possibilities of green material, ...

Integration of environmental issues

Reducing environmental impact is one of the biggest challenges facing global society and its economy. Cities contribute an important proportion of greenhouse gas emissions and hence have a signifi cant impact on the environment.

Smart City requires also an evaluation of environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of individual sources. Thus, the integration of environmental issues in the development of Smart Cities is a key part for a successful sustainable development of urban areas.

Smart Street and Traffic Lighting

Smart Street Lighting• Intelligent LED streetlights, merged into network and linked to smart grids• High level communication protocols

Cutting edge technology ensures:• automatic adaptation of lights on weather conditions • control of energy costs of street lights, • monitor pollution and other environmental parameters • monitor movements of vehicles

Smart Traffi c SystemA development of an innovative Smart City solution, ensuring and further optimizing urban mobility, including advanced devices positioned at pedestrian crossings, road intersections and other places to control the traffi c fl ows.

Investing in this Smart Traffi c System includes modernisation and automation of road traffi c - upgrading it in a direction to fulfi l a defi nition of Complete Mobility. This goal can be achieved with:• smart traffi c control centre• adaptive traffi c control • LED signalling system• intermodal traffi c management

Smart street lighting and traffi c systems have direct effects on costs and environment, ensuring• energy effi ciency, • reductions of traffi c jams and fl ow• decrease of environmental impacts caused

by traffi c and street lights.

Smart Model for Sewerage System

After use, drinking water becomes a municipal wastewater and fl ows with industrial wastewater and rainwater into the public sewerage system.

Sewerage system consists of various pipes, technological facilities such as pumping stations, dischargers, retention basins, docking facilities, inspection chambers, water treatment plants, etc.

Smart model of sewerage system is based on:• ICT supported and remotely controlled facilities from the central control platform• geographical database of sewerage system and data from monitoring processes:

volumetric fl ow rate, content of contaminated/non-contaminated water, etc.

Nigrad d.d. also has an accredited research laboratory, which main activities are:• research and development in the fi eld of wastewater • monitoring, optimisation and certifi cation of wastewater treatment plants • expert evaluations of environmental impacts• etc.

Smart sewerage model enables:• a quick detection of malfunctions in the

system (effective intervention of defects), • elimination of bottlenecks, • simulation of processes when planning

new parts of the sewerage system• detection of rainwater quantity within the

sewerage system• detection of excessive overfl ow of

wastewater

Improved every-day decision making processes, planning, maintenance and management of sewerage system

Pilot project developed/operational

In the development

phasePlanned Costs (EUR) Benefi ts, Products and Investment returns

Marketing and Further Development------------------

Partnership

Smart winter service – a research project

400.000 EUR - less fuel consumption (more than 30 % saving annually); - lower environmental emissions - investment returns: ≤ 6 years

- common market - maintenance - further development - implementation for upgraded solutions

Complete road audit service 150.000 EUR

- this services is required by the Slovenian law - less fuel consumption (around 25 %) due optimised paths - less costs with indemnities, improved road safety - investment returns: ≤ 3 years

- common market - maintenance - further development - implementation for upgraded solutions

Integration of environmental issues into smart city services – a research project

150.000 EUR - lower environmental emissions and costs (e.g. CO2 tax reduction)

- common market - further development (R&D) on integration of

environmental issues into Smart City solutions

Smart public lighting in the city of Maribor (around 14 600 public lights)

6.000.000–7.000.000 EUR

- savings in energy consumption - lower environmental emissions (e.g. CO2 for 60 % - CO2 tax reduction)

- possibility to obtain co-fi nancing from EU funds - investment returns: ≥ 7 years

- common market - maintenance - further development - implementation for upgraded solutions

Smart City Green areas 300.000 EUR

- less fuel consumption (around 25 %) due optimised paths - lower environmental emissions and costs (e.g. CO2 tax

reduction) - new products from a “wasted green material” – wooden pallets, etc. - investment returns: ≤ 3 years

- common market - maintenance - further development - implementation for upgraded solutions

Smart Sewerage System

2.500.000 EUR

- ICT supported and remotely controlled facilities from the central control platform

- geographical database of sewerage system and data from monitoring processes: volumetric fl ow rate, content of contaminated/non-contaminated water, etc.

- investment returns: ≤ 5 years

- sensor technology – Chinese companies - common market for new developed services - implementation for upgraded solutions - common R&D (know-how)

New products from Sewage sludge (linked to Snaga company)

2.000.000 EUR

- development of new technologies - new marketable patents - new products (“terra preta”, melting agents, deodorizer, and

reaction auxiliary product, etc.), that are direct substitution to the current product on the market

- product on the market and manufacturing equipment are to market ready within 2-3 years period after the start of the project

- investment returns: ≥ 6 years

- common market for new products from sewage sludge - common market for new developed technologies - implementation for upgraded solutions - pilot testing - common R&D (know-how)

Small wastewater treatment plants

750.000 EUR - development of service – products, build-in,

maintenance, monitoring, … - investment returns: ≤ 2 years

- small wastewater treatment plants (SWTP) – Chinese companies

- Nigrad carries out a certifi cation process of SWTP for EU (market opportunity)

- implementation for upgraded solutions - pilot testing - common R&D (know-how)

Traffi c control smart service 17.500.000 EUR

- smart traffi c control centre - adaptive traffi c control - LED signalling system - intermodal traffi c management - investment returns: ≤ 8 years

- technologies – Chinese companies - common R&D (know-how) - implementation for upgraded solutions - pilot testing - enter to the EU and other Western markets

(technologies, services, products)

EuroCloud China-EU Collaboration• September 2012, meeting between CIE&EuroCloud Europe in Brussels,

where collaboration road map was defi ned• December 2012, EuroCloud Europe has launched a Request for Proposals

for Proof of Projects• February 2013, three POCs were introduced to CIE to bring EU-China collaboration

into place• June 2013 - EuroCloud delegation & POCs visiting 5th China Cloud Computing

Conference, Beijing• Nigrad delegation (on behalf of EuroCloud) participated on the Urbanisation Forum

Beijing November 2013 - Themes: creative city, smart city, green city, urban transport

Currently Open Call within Horizon2020:• Enhancing and focusing research and innovation cooperation with the Union’s key

international partner countries - proposals China

Main project idea:• ICT&Smart Cities, including Big Data, Cloud, Internet of Things, network technologies• Research about existing Smart City activities – road-mapping of technologies in EU and China,

important fi elds of common interest, harmonisations, collaboration on 3rd markets, common organisation of conferences, workshops, etc.

• Coordination and Support Action

Looking for Chinese Project Partners: cities, research organisations dealing with ICT and Smart Cities, companies, ...

Existing and Possible Further Collaboration

• Nigrad collaborates with high-tech companies and other EU organizations e.g. Euro Cloud, Abelium, Poligram, X-lab, …

• Some existing collaboration through project partnerships with: Chinese Institute of Electronics, Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, BingoSoft, …

Nigrad d.d, a utility company

Address Zagrebška cesta 30, 2000 Maribor, SloveniaPhone + 386 2 4500 300Fax + 386 2 4500 362 E-mail info@nigrad.si Website www.nigrad.si The principal activity SewerageActivity code E37.000Year of establishment Since 1857VAT identifi cation number SI71083715Company registration number 5066310000CEO MSc. Vladimir KrajcerGPS coordinates N 46°31’59.94” E 15°39’36.33”

Conference topics

1. Experiences with Sustainable/Smart Cities and Communities 2. Improvements in Resource Effi ciency, Sustainable Production

and Improved Process, Product and Service Design 3. Advances in ‘Real’ Sustainable Consumption and Beyond GDP Initiative 4. New Initiatives in Education for Sustainable Development 5. Results of Sustainability Innovations Research and Development 6. Exciting High-Tech for Sustainability in Industries 7. Challenges for Making Progress in Cross-Cutting Themes Including Green

and Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Sustainable & Ethical Investments

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