CuriousU Smart Cities leaflet
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PROF DR. GERT-JAN HOSPERS - BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SMART CITIES Introducing smart cities. The economic engine of a city but also the cultural differences. Four types of creative cities are explained and the meaning of a creative city is discussed. Comparisons are made between being an inhabitant of a city and being a tourist in a city. Is a smart city a city for the inhabitants, or for the tourists? “What is the city but the people?” - William Shakespeare DESIGNING SMART CITY COMPONENTS - DR. TIMO HARTMANN Cities need to be designed in a smart way as solutions to problems take roughly 10 to 20 years to finalize and by then new technologies have emerged. So how do we design smart solutions, in a smart way, such that different interpretations do not lead to problems further down the road? “I Think that in 10 years we will not have eyes anymore on this earth. I think you can already see this everywhere.” PROF. DR. MICHIEL HELDEWEG - SMART RULES FOR SMART CITIES SMART GRIDS FOR SMART CITIES - DR. IR V. BAKKER & DR. IR. A. MOLDERINK Can smart rules become too smart? Does invoking regulations harm the freedom of your choices? Rules apply everywhere but are rules always necessary? Law is about making people flourish, it is there to protect and facilitate. This space provides both liberty to be free from and to be free to. Rules are all about trying to find a balance between government and society and between opportunity and risks. “The only failed experiment is an experiment which you don’t learn from.” What are smart grids? And how do they work? How does the energy system look like in The Netherlands? Especially in terms of ‘smartness’. And is this viable for the future or are changes necessary? Supply and demand will changes greatly in the future, but is the electricity grid able to cope with this change? So how do we design grids to be so smart that they will last for a long time? “Our goal is to have a sustainable energy supply which is as affordable and reliable as the current supply.” SMART WATER CITY - DR. KRIS LULOFS & EWERT AUKES MSC. THE HUMAN FACTOR IN A SMART ENERGY CITY How can users be integrated in the design process of a smart home? What are the requirements of living in a smart home? Storyboards are created using human factors ergonomics. How people perceive the world and using this perception to design guidelines to support the system to the strengths and limitations of human operators is of real importance. “Fit the system to the user, never fit the human to the system.” SUZANNE VOSSLAMBER MSC. FLORENCE LEHNERT MSC. What is the impact of water on a (smart) city? To determine the best water strategy we are constantly looking at the hydrological cycle and the impact of urbanization to this cycle. How do we keep the water clean and make sure that it reaches the faucet without to many losses? And how do the Dutch fight the water in their own home country? “In Mozambique there is about 5 liters of water per average citizen used, but in the USA this is about 575 liters a day.” DR. THOMAS HOPPE - TRANSFORMING TOWARDS A SMART ENERGY CITY The energy production does not only contribute to the whole energy system. Rules and laws are also included. How do you change such a big system consisting of multiple entities? Transitions are hard and need support from both the (local) government and the people. How does one realize a vision? And how can the government give the people the incentive to adopt a vision? “The role of the local government, like cities, is very important in an energy transition, like building a wind park, because it has local impact.” IMPROVING THE ROBUSTNESS OF URBAN ELECTRICITY NETWORKS - ALEXANDR VASENEV What are the threats to our infrastructure? For example blackouts. But how can we reduce the risk of one? Electricity is nowadays an important necessity, without it, life is much harder as we are used to all sorts of electronic devices. So we would like to minimize the risk of a blackout. We also face risks in the form of cybersecurity and much more. How do we make our network more robust to prevent and act on all kinds of threats? “You need to understand what the threats are, if you want to know the risk.” MANUEL GARCIA - GEO-PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS FOR SMART CITIES Geographical information can be used to increase the quality of life in a smart city. There are three different kinds of sensors, in-situ, mobile and human sensors. All these sensors provide data but all this data, called big data, can be too much to process. When data is produced faster than it can be consumed, problems can occur. Therefore acquiring the right data is important. With the help of data, one can invent smart solutions to (old) problems and thus improving the lifestyle in a smart city. “Every city has to prioritize where to start to become smart.” Cities are not build on greenfields, they already exist including all their infrastructure. Most of the cities’ infrastructure is mediocre and, due to budget cuts, is maintained poorly. But what does “infrastructure” actually mean? The future holds a big puzzle as we need to decide what to do with our current infrastructure and who has to pay for it. There are a lot of conflicting interests that need to be resolved. “The complexity of engineering, investment and cooperation is remarkable and an amazing achievement of mankind.” INTERCITY SURGERY IN SMART CITY REALISATION - PROF. DR. ANDRÉ DORÉE When is governance smart? Is it smart when compromises are being made? Or is it when one side is more favored then the other but the latter gets compensation for their “discomfort”? Governing a city in a smart way is not easy and a lot of facts need to be taken into account. Private companies can go a long way in creating smart ways of living (allowing working at home for example). But is this kind of meddling necessary for creating a smart city? “If a solution is smart but does not involve people anymore, are we still happy then?” When you talk about Smart Cities, there are usually two different perspectives to go about: the social and the technical perspective. Both perspective have different definitions of what the most important for a smart city is. By making this definition some aspects are moved to the background while others are prioritized. These differences are often cause of trouble during projects. So how do you make sure both parties work optimally together? “There is one sentence that no professional uses which would make collaboration much better: I don’t understand.” DR. PIETER-JAN KLOK - SMART GOVERNANCE PROFESSIONAL LIFE IN SMART CITIES - DR. MARK VAN VUUREN
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Transcript of CuriousU Smart Cities leaflet
PROF DR. GERT-JAN HOSPERS - BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SMART CITIES
Introducing smart cities. The economic engine of a city but also the cultural differences. Four types of creative cities are explained and the meaning of a creative city is discussed. Comparisons are made between being an inhabitant of a city and being a tourist in a city. Is a smart city a city for the inhabitants, or for the tourists?
“What is the city but the people?” - William Shakespeare
DESIGNING SMART CITY COMPONENTS - DR. TIMO HARTMANN
Cities need to be designed in a smart way as solutions to problems take roughly 10 to 20 years to fi nalize and by then new technologies have emerged. So how do we design smart solutions, in a smart way, such that different interpretations do not lead to problems further down the road?
“I Think that in 10 years we will not have eyes anymore on this earth. I think you can already see this everywhere.”
PROF. DR. MICHIEL HELDEWEG - SMART RULES FOR SMART CITIES SMART GRIDS FOR SMART CITIES - DR. IR V. BAKKER & DR. IR. A. MOLDERINK
Can smart rules become too smart? Does invoking regulations harm the freedom of your choices? Rules apply everywhere but are rules always necessary? Law is about making people fl ourish, it is there to protect and facilitate. This space provides both liberty to be free from and to be free to. Rules are all about trying to fi nd a balance between government and society and between opportunity and risks.
“The only failed experiment is an experiment which you don’t learn from.”
What are smart grids? And how do they work? How does the energy system look like in The Netherlands? Especially in terms of ‘smartness’. And is this viable for the future or are changes necessary? Supply and demand will changes greatly in the future, but is the electricity grid able to cope with this change? So how do we design grids to be so smart that they will last for a long time?
“Our goal is to have a sustainable energy supply which is as affordable and reliable as the current supply.”
SMART WATER CITY - DR. KRIS LULOFS & EWERT AUKES MSC.THE HUMAN FACTOR IN A SMART ENERGY CITY
How can users be integrated in the design process of a smart home? What are the requirements of living in a smart home? Storyboards are created using human factors ergonomics. How people perceive the world and using this perception to design guidelines to support the system to the strengths and limitations of human operators is of real importance.
“Fit the system to the user, never fi t the human to the system.”
SUZANNE VOSSLAMBER MSC. FLORENCE LEHNERT MSC.
What is the impact of water on a (smart) city? To determine the best water strategy we are constantly looking at the hydrological cycle and the impact of urbanization to this cycle. How do we keep the water clean and make sure that it reaches the faucet without to many losses? And how do the Dutch fi ght the water in their own home country?
“In Mozambique there is about 5 liters of water per average citizen used, but in the USA this is about 575 liters a day.”
DR. THOMAS HOPPE - TRANSFORMING TOWARDS A SMART ENERGY CITY
The energy production does not only contribute to the whole energy system. Rules and laws are also included. How do you change such a big system consisting of multiple entities? Transitions are hard and need support from both the (local) government and the people. How does one realize a vision? And how can the government give the people the incentive to adopt a vision?
“The role of the local government, like cities, is very important in an energy transition, like building a wind park, because it has local impact.”
IMPROVING THE ROBUSTNESS OF URBAN ELECTRICITY NETWORKS - ALEXANDR VASENEV
What are the threats to our infrastructure? For example blackouts. But how can we reduce the risk of one? Electricity is nowadays an important necessity, without it, life is much harder as we are used to all sorts of electronic devices. So we would like to minimize the risk of a blackout. We also face risks in the form of cybersecurity and much more. How do we make our network more robust to prevent and act on all kinds of threats?
“You need to understand what the threats are,if you want to know the risk.”
MANUEL GARCIA - GEO-PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS FOR SMART CITIES
Geographical information can be used to increase the quality of life in a smart city. There are three different kinds of sensors, in-situ, mobile and human sensors. All these sensors provide data but all this data, called big data, can be too much to process. When data is produced faster than it can be consumed, problems can occur. Therefore acquiring the right data is important. With the help of data, one can invent smart solutions to (old) problems and thus improving the lifestyle in a smart city.
“Every city has to prioritize where to start to become smart.”
Cities are not build on greenfi elds, they already exist including all their infrastructure. Most of the cities’ infrastructure is mediocre and, due to budget cuts, is maintained poorly. But what does “infrastructure” actually mean? The future holds a big puzzle as we need to decide what to do with our current infrastructure and who has to pay for it. There are a lot of confl icting interests that need to be resolved.
“The complexity of engineering, investment and cooperation is remarkable and an amazing achievement of mankind.”
INTERCITY SURGERY IN SMART CITY REALISATION - PROF. DR. ANDRÉ DORÉE
When is governance smart? Is it smart when compromises are being made? Or is it when one side is more favored then the other but the latter gets compensation for their “discomfort”? Governing a city in a smart way is not easy and a lot of facts need to be taken into account. Private companies can go a long way in creating smart ways of living (allowing working at home for example). But is this kind of meddling necessary for creating a smart city?
“If a solution is smart but does not involve people anymore,are we still happy then?”
When you talk about Smart Cities, there are usually two different perspectives to go about: the social and the technical perspective. Both perspective have different defi nitions of what the most important for a smart city is. By making this defi nition some aspects are moved to the background while others are prioritized. These differences are often cause of trouble during projects. So how do you make sure both parties work optimally together?
“There is one sentence that no professional uses which would make collaboration much better: I don’t understand.”
DR. PIETER-JAN KLOK - SMART GOVERNANCE PROFESSIONAL LIFE IN SMART CITIES - DR. MARK VAN VUUREN
