Accelerating the digital transformation
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Designing smart living spaces
Achieving sustainability, security of supply, and future viability requires a comprehensive approach. In the urban environment in particular, the key to greater energy efficiency, sustainable living, and sustainable mobility is smart technology that uses digital technologies to connect intelligent energy systems with smart buildings.Designing a more sustainable urban life
Digitalization is opening up completely new opportunities for designing a more comfortable and climate-friendly life in the urban space.
It enables an extremely efficient use of electricity, heat, and air-conditioning and maximizes local power generation from renewable sources. At the same time, each individual building and each room is guaranteed a healthy, flexible climate that’s adapted to current needs. The result is a smart city district that’s optimally equipped to meet future challenges and offers each person the best possible living and working environment.
One of Europe’s most innovative real estate projects
UpTown, a new urban district with a digitally networked energy infrastructure, was created on the grounds of the Milan Expo 2015 in Cascina Merlata. Its centerpiece is an innovative smart grid developed for the Expo by Siemens. This grid provides the foundation for the particularly efficient and sustainable use of energy, which involves maximizing the use of own power generation and minimizing carbon emissions using load management.
A cloud-based energy management platform forwards the energy data to a specially developed app that makes it possible to observe and continuously optimize individual consumption behavior in each apartment.
We’ve developed the smart city concept into a “well-being city” concept in order to offer people a better quality of life.Attilio Di Cunto, CEO EuroMilano S.p.A.
Cloud-based energy management
The core feature of the smart power infrastructure for Cascina Merlata UpTown is Siemens’ cloud-based software platform DEOP (Distributed Energy Optimization). This flexible and scalable platform controls the district’s entire microgrid. It interacts with the integrated Desigo CC building management platform for this purpose.Digital intelligence supports sustainability
DEOP continuously analyzes the energy requirements of all air-conditioning, heating, and electrical installations in the apartments and common areas in all buildings. At the same time, the software records the power generation capacity of the photovoltaic plants on the building roofs and the district‘s central geothermal plant, and it controls the purchase of additional energy as needed.
Based on the values that were determined and fed back into the system by DEOP, Desigo CC supplies extremely efficient heating and air-conditioning to all rooms and optimizes electricity consumption in the buildings and at the existing charging station for electric vehicles.
Data create energy-awareness
All data and analytical results are available in real time. This enables location-independent remote control and maintenance of the entire energy system. Faults can be identified and located immediately, which minimizes costs and maintenance times.
A mobile app makes the energy data available to all UpTown residents, so that everyone can actively control their own energy consumption and, in this way, further boost the energy efficiency and sustainability of the entire district.
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