The forum, under the motto of Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation,<\/i> is the principal international stage for debating and sharing experiences related to urban issues<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At the forum, the Spanish government also presented Spain\u2019s Urban Agenda, the result of its commitment to the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals. The Agenda, approved in 2019, is a roadmap that aims to guide all of Spain\u2019s towns and cities, regardless of their size, towards a more economically, socially and environmentally equitable, integrated and sustainable future by the year 2030. The Agenda offers a Decalogue of Strategic Goals, which, in turn, feature a total of 30 specific goals and 291 lines of action.<\/i><\/p>\n
The forum, under the motto of ‘Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation’, is the principal international stage for debating and sharing experiences related to urban issues The event was attended by more than 18,000 delegates from approximately 170 countries, representing mostly institutions, ranging from national and local governments, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and the academic world.<\/p>\n
One of the organisations in attendance was Spanish railway operator Renfe. The rail operator, which presented the Haramain project at the stand, is working on its new ‘mobility as a service’, ‘Renfe as a Service (RaaS)’ platform back in Spain. The platform aims to integrate different modes of both public and private transport into one single application.<\/p>\n
In addition, Puertos del Estado, which comprises and coordinates the 28 port authorities in charge of Spain\u2019s 46 ports, presented its Ports 4.0 project. The Ports 4.0 project establishes an equity fund to finance innovative projects in new technologies and business models based on the 4.0 economy, via a public requests for tenders.<\/p>\n
In the aviation sector, Spanish airport operator Aena is focusing on the concept of smart airports: its lines of action include a pilot project for biometric technology and digital identity (facial recognition) at its Adolfo Su\u00e1rez Madrid-Barajas airport and its airport in Menorca, as well as testing drones for different uses within the airport environment.<\/p>\n
Adif, Spain\u2019s railway infrastructure administrator, has activated a plan to digitalise its network of long-distance and AVE train stations, aiming to convert them into ‘intelligent stations’ that will connect to other transport systems and different city services.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Spain\u2019s Urban Agenda<\/span><\/h4>\n\t\t\t
<\/p>\nThe Directorate-General for Architecture, Housing and Land under the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda organised two events at the forum. The first, on 10\u00a0 February, was a networking session entitled \u2018Governance: a key element in the implementation of national urban policies: Spain\u2019s Urban Agenda experience\u2019, which was attended by Ineco\u2019s Director of Business for Roads and Intermodal, Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Higueras. The event was also attended by, among others, the Ministry of Transport\u2019s Deputy Director of Urban Policy, \u00c1ngela de la Cruz, who presented the book Ciudad productiva y ciudad circular.<\/i> Conversaciones alrededor de la Agenda Urbana (The Productive and Circular City: Discussing the Urban Agenda),<\/i> on Tuesday the 11th.<\/p>\n
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Smart projects from Ineco<\/h3>\n
Cityneco: LAUNCHED IN GRANADA<\/h4>\n
The Director of Ineco, Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Higueras, (first from the right) presents the Cityneco model to the Ministry of Transport\u2019s Deputy Director of Urban Policy, \u00c1ngela de la Cruz (centre). \/ PHOTO_INECO + LUMIERE ADVERTISERS<\/p><\/div>\n
Ineco demonstrated its Cityneco Mobility model at the stand. The model city, constructed from Lego pieces, allowed delegates to observe the functions of its Cityneco platform through its augmented reality application. The company developed the technology platform for the smart management of different urban services in 2016, as part of an innovation project in which it partnered with the Granada City Council to pilot the platform in the city. The platform has since been updated to a new version 2.0.<\/p>\n
Specifically designed to facilitate mobility, the model’s modular architecture and layered structure make it easily scalable and interoperable. A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version makes Cityneco available to medium-sized cities without their own infrastructure.<\/p>\n
A visitor tests virtual reality glasses. \/ PHOTO_INECO + LUMIERE ADVERTISERS<\/p><\/div>\n
The platform features several vertical modules, one for each of a local council or organisation’s management areas. Its modular architecture facilitates the incorporation of new vertical levels to adapt to new requirements. Its IoT functionality (the Internet of Things), allows it to connect to sensors located throughout the city while simultaneously integrating and processing multiple sources of information, from social networks to video feed.<\/p>\n
The information is displayed simply and intuitively through dashboards, based on both real-time data and management indicators, and in the case of mobility, with a GIS viewer (Geographical Information System).<\/p>\n
What does Cityneco offer?<\/span><\/h4>\n\t\t\t
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- Compatibility with simulation models. The platform is compatible with existing versions of microsimulation software. This compatibility allows Cityneco to analyse information from simulations in precisely the same way it would do with real-time sensors, which means the scenarios can be merged with other information contained on the platform.<\/li>\n
- Traffic volume predictions. By analysing historical data and real-time data obtained from the citywide sensors, the platform is capable of predicting traffic conditions in 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes.<\/li>\n
- Mobility optimisation. Cityneco can carry out mobility simulations in accelerated time, taking current information as a starting point. The platform runs a finite series of simulations, with varying mobility control parameters, to obtain the optimal configuration for each of the available elements of control.<\/li>\n
- Pollution calculations. Data is obtained by cross-checking the simulation model’s road network with traffic information provided by the different sensors. The traffic-sensor information and the simulation can be used to calculate emissions, enabling the platform to estimate contamination levels in places without sensors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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A connected campus for the University of Almer\u00eda<\/h4>\n
The University of Almer\u00eda (UAL), founded in 1993, is not the first Spanish university to introduce smart-management projects for its services and infrastructure, but it is the first to have a Master Plan for their implementation, which it asked Ineco to design. With a few methodological adjustments, the document incorporates smart-management proposals similar to those that would be applied to a small city.<\/p>\n
The work, which was carried out over the course of 2019, includes a model for a smart campus, a diagnosis of the University\u2019s current state of technological or smart development, the objective to be achieved and a roadmap of necessary actions.<\/p>\n
View of the UAL campus. \/ PHOTO_UAL<\/p><\/div>\n
At just over five kilometres east of the city of Almer\u00eda and a few meters from the sea, the UAL is a small to medium-sized public university situated very close to the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata-N\u00edjar. Despite being located in a water-deficient province, the university benefits from abundant sunshine and regular winds that it can use to obtain clean energy. The plan, therefore, concentrates on environmental initiatives to create a green smart-campus with particular emphasis placed on optimising its water and energy consumption. Given its location outside of the city centre, which makes access on foot difficult and generates high levels of private vehicle use, another priority is to improve the university’s mobility framework.<\/p>\n
The UAL is the first Spanish university to have a Master Plan for the implementation of SMART-MANAGEMENT initiatives thanks to Ineco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In total, the plan covers 21 services, grouped in nine sub-areas: urban environment (maintenance and irrigation of gardens, air quality, noise and light pollution), waste management (cleaning roads and buildings, and waste collection), energy (electricity and gas consumption in buildings, public lighting, clean energy generation), water (water consumption and quality, sanitation and sewage network management), parking (car park management), traffic control (vehicle influx, internal bicycle and scooter traffic, charging points for electric vehicles, information on modes of transport), accessibility, public infrastructure and urban equipment, (management and maintenance, incident detection) and an innovation ecosystem.<\/p>\n
Below: bicycles parked in front of lecture theatre IV; promoting sustainable mobility is a cornerstone of the plan. \/ PHOTO_UAL<\/p><\/div>\n
In order to establish the current technological advancement of the services, six levels were defined: basic, initiation (UAL’s current level) intermediate, advanced, very advanced and connected. The objective is to reach the ‘connected’ level, which specifies that at least 80% of the services must be interconnected.<\/p>\n
The Master Plan includes indicators to measure UAL’s smart progress and establishes a Steering and Coordination Committee and a Monitoring Committee, as well as suggesting a two-yearly revision of the document to keep it up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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