Angelique Meyer

International liaison Amsterdam Smart City

16th December 2014

As our planet becomes more urban

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Amsterdam; we need to look different at the city

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• Amsterdam Smart City: a public

private partnership

• Initiated in 2009 to transform the

Amsterdam Metropolitan Region

in a Smart City

Smart projects in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Over 100 partners have an active role in pilots

Founding Partners

Project Partners

Strategic Partners

Network Partners

Amsterdam conditions for smart city development

Fastest consumer network in Europe

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Start-up accelerators

Incubators

Smart Grids

Amsterdam Open Data Program

Knowledge institutions

THEMES

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Mobility and the city

Dynamic traffic control

• Advanced system to manage and monitor traffic

• Open Data driven

• Smart parking

• Twice as many bikes as people

Joint ownership

• Several initiatives. Sharing is the new owning. You

are what you share! (Car2Go and WeGo)

Electric vehicles

• International frontrunner

• Infrastructure is key (dense, short distances and

densely populated make Netherlands perfect

testing location)

• There are over 1,000 public EV-charging points.

• Amsterdam: most electric cars per inhabitant

• Tesla, BYD Auto and BMW (i3)

• Ship to Grid project – 159 electricity points in

Amsterdam harbor

Energy and the city

Energy in Amsterdam

• Climate goals

• Several Smart Grid and Energy

Management pilots

Cooling and heating a district with water

• Business district Zuidas: cooled by lake,

heated by water from an energy plant

• Working on cooling Schiphol with water

Smart Grid: magnet for innovation

• Nieuw West: one of the most advanced

roll-outs in the world, self-healing.

• Further developed as one of Europe’s

flagship Smart Grid developments (City-

Zen), enabling people to generate their

own energy, store their energy and plug in

their vehicles to gain or give energy.

Vehicle2Grid

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Connectivity and the city

Connectivity in Amsterdam

• First connection to the internet in Europe

was made in Amsterdam 25 years ago

• Fastest broadband internet of Europe

• G4/LTE since 2012

• 95% of households are connected

• Largest internet hub in the world

Connectivity testbed /initiatives

• Smart schools

• One device (education)

• Remote healthcare

• Smart working centers

• Safety: smart lighting

Smart lighting

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(E-)Health and the city

Health living lab

• Involvement of patients in

development of products and services;

Health Lab

• Strategic location of benches in public

space keeps citizens active for a longer

period of time.

Connectivity

• Connectivity plays a key rol: several

pilots on Ijburg

• Increasing independence relies on

reliable infrastructure: IT, internet,

access to energy

Data and the city

Open / big data

• Important fuel for a smart city

• Amsterdam Open Data: programme to enclose

data including open data portal

• Amsterdam: 300 datasets are open

• Coming years: 1.200 datasets will follow

• www.amsterdamopendata.nl

Data Centres

• Popular location for new data centres in Europe

• Committed from business to green

• Agreement with city to save energy. Over the next

3 years; 68 miljoen kWh

• Usage of waste heat from datacentres

Smart Citizen Kit

• Citizens collect data. Citizen empowerment

• Network of sensors across town

• The kit measures the levels of air / noise pollution,

air humidity, shares the info and compares the

data to other areas of Amsterdam in real time.

Waste and the city

Afval Energie bedrijf – Waste Company

• Waste-fired power plant has an electrical

efficiency of 30%

• 8% higher than the average waste-to-

energy plant

• It produces sustainable energy because

48% of the waste consists of biomass

• AEB currently produces renewable

electricity for 320,000 households

Urban Mining

• Waste = gold

• Supplier of gold, iron, protein, sulphates

and other materials

• New technologies enable specialised

companies to separate the waste even

further than citizens do themselves and re-

use them or sell them

Biobased Economy

Urban living labs approach

• Connecting parties; building consortiums.

• Combining activities

• Gaining knowledge about residents and

users of neighborhoods.

• Identifying the needs and wishes of the

residents and users of neighborhoods.

• Energy potential analysis: technical,

demographic and urban planning insights

into the present and potential

• Energy consumption of neighborhoods.

• Knowledge exchange based on previous

pilot projects.

3 areas; 3 urban living labs

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IJburgSmart & Connected IJburg

ZuidoostThe City of tomorrow

Nieuw-WestSmart neighbourhood Nieuw West

Nieuw-West: The activities in

this area are dominated by the

"smart grid" and the

opportunities that this offers

the residents in the area such

as local generation, energy

use and electric transport.

Together with the resisents and users of the

neihgborhood we improve the quality of life !

Living lab Nieuw-West

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• Started in April

• 23 partners, 30 million

investment

• Citizen empowerment

• Project includes:

• Smart grids

• Solar energy & storage

• Renovation. 52.000 m²

• Grinder

• Serious Gaming

• Watercooling Schiphol

Energy in Nieuw West

Meeting place for residents

and project partners

Flexible Public Lighting Storage integrated PV

Vehicle to Grid

Adjustable

Rules & Regulation

Large scale Renovation

Use of local

(Open) Data

European Flagship

Smart Energy

living lab

Living lab Zuidoost

Improve the quality of life together with

local companies !

Zuidoost: is all about

cooperation between the

different organisations in this

area. Several measures are

being explored such as the

usage of waste heat from

data centres, energy

exchange between the

different organisations in the

area and smart light.

Energy cooperation

Joint purchasing and

exchange of energy

(large scale

consumers)Waste heat from

data centers

Use of waste heat of

new data center in

the immediate

vicinity

Sun PV AMC

AMC hospital

develops a

viable business

case for 35000

m2 solar PV on

the roof

Amsterdam Arena

Ajax football stadium

Local Data Centers

Amsterdam AMC

Medical Centre

Urban Transformation

IJburg: Smart & Connected IJburg

works towards an accessible

IJburg. Accessibility via mobility, but

also in terms of connectivity. In this

area ASC focuses on various

themes concerning smart working,

mobility, healthcare and education.

Smart & Connected IJburg

Living lab IJburg

Last but not least: Citizen and users of the city

Citizen central

• Crucial position

• At the centre of all activities

• Gaining knowledge about residents and users

of neighbourhoods

• Multi stakeholder approach

• Looking at different ways to enhance citizen

involvement

• Accelerating citizen engagement

• Accelerating bottum-up initiatives

• What are their wishes and needs concerning

a smart neighbourhood?

• Social innovation

Amsterdam Smart City International

• European partner cities:

• Paris

• Grenoble

• Genova, Vienna, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Lyon

Worldwide:

• Brasil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and United States

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Copenhagen

Amsterdam

Lyon

Genoa

Vienna

Hamburg

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Smart data: Energy atlas

• New York / Hamburg • TU Delft • Amsterdam

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• USE • POTENTIALS

City of Amsterdam

Climate and Energymaps.amsterdam.nl

Amsterdam Smart City 2015

• Themes:

• Smart Mobility

• Smart Energy

• Smart Health

Topics:

• Sharing Economy

• Disruptive technologies

• New business models

Events:

• Amsterdam Smart City event – 2-6 June 2015

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