Smart solutions on a balanced budget
With growing urbanization, often critical financial conditions and the challenges of climate change, cities carry a crucial part of development as a whole. What then does intelligent infrastructure mean for buildings, mobility solutions and energy management?
Innovative traffic management systems optimizes road and rail capacity, while information systems help passengers find efficient travel routes. Fully automated metros can be flexibly adapted to passenger volume – and dynamic traffic control systems guarantee an optimized traffic flow. The result: Optimally networked conurbations that flexibly adapt to changing requirements.
Our specialist knowledge includes comprehensive domain and turnkey expertise that enables us to service the entire mobility spectrum. Integrated mobility platforms from Siemens integrate diverse transport providers, offering an end-to-end travel experience across metro, bus, car, bike-sharing, parking and even taxi services. As a single source provider, we offer high quality rail products and solutions for urban and interurban transportation and logistics. We help optimize the overall performance of transportation networks
Buildings consume more energy than industry or mobility
41% of worldwide energy consumption, responsible for one third of greenhouse gas emissions: Buildings are one major part of the worldwide environmental footprint. If we’d like to succeed against climate change, sustainable, and energy-efficient buildings need to be part of a global answer.
Beside buildings’ environmental impact, there are also economical aspects: Real Estate often is the 2nd largest expense on most organizations’ income statement. So buildings can be a critical factor for a company’s success and in the end for the employees’ job security.
But buildings are far more than that. People spend about 90 % of their lives indoors – starting with our birth in hospitals, learning at schools, developing at universities, succeeding in jobs in office buildings. Buildings are not just a place for working and living. It’s the place where we spend our lives.
Ingenuity for life creates perfect places
We all begin our lives in a perfect place: In our mother’s tummy. A place where it is never too cold, never too warm, never too loud; a place where we can always feel safe and secure. Why shouldn’t all our lives be lived in perfect places?
So improving buildings, working on perfect places, means working towards better lives. Our goal is: Creating perfect places for every stage of life.
A constant reliable energy supply is central for economic growth and stability, as well as social wellbeing in cities all over the world. Yet existing power grids are facing challenges: growing power requirements, increasing proportion of fluctuating power generated from renewable sources, power outages caused by storms, excessive demand, ageing infrastructure.
All of this has a significant impact on businesses and households – if the power supply fails, there are repercussions across all infrastructure domains. Smart grid technologies from Siemens make it possible to modernize and adapt existing power grids to future demands. They can enable power operators to manage energy more efficiently, react more flexibly to changing demands, and boost efficiency in the network as well as incorporate electricity from distributed and renewable sources.
