Smart infrastructure South Africa

At its South African Headquarters in Johannesburg, Siemens has created a Distributed Energy System to reduce its ecological footprint. This kind of solution has a huge potential for the whole continent.

Electric cars and car sharing instead of privately owned, combustion-powered cars: The Moving Rwanda initiative is testing new mobility concepts in Kigali that might just catch on in other African cities. Siemens is delivering the charging infrastructure

In Wunsiedel, the future’s already here. With an independent energy system based exclusively on renewables. Which is creating jobs and prosperity. Which is profitable and the pride of an entire region. And soon even with green hydrogen.

Maintaining buildings would be easy if it weren’t for fluctuating temperatures, unforeseen damage, unsteady energy requirements, and ever-changing user behavior. To keep things simple, the University Properties of Finland (SYK), the company that owns and maintains the buildings of Tampere University with its more than 11,000 students, has completely rethought its approach to building maintenance. From static to dynamic. From periodic to demand-based. From visual to data-driven.

At Sint-Maarten Hospital in Belgium, data and technology actively contribute to the daily work, freeing up valuable time, so the staff can focus on what really matters – the patients.

The Dutch company Interxion operates over 50 data centers in Europe. Two data centers in Vienna serve over 100 carriers and ISPs with five Internet exchange nodes.

The small, picturesque town in the Allgäu has long been known as an energy pioneer. The citizens of Wildpoldsried are now again staying one step ahead with "Pebbles" – peer-to-peer energy trading based on blockchain technology.

Teaching by example – that’s the approach taken at Keele University, UK. Their goals are: to divest from fossil fuels, become carbon-neutral as a campus of 350 buildings and 12,000 students and staff by 2030 and, in this way, become a model for the whole of Europe. The way to get there: energy management with SEND – the Smart Energy Network Demonstrator.

A century-old Native American reservation in Northern California, took control of its energy by launching a solar power-based microgrid. Subsequently, the community proved its resilience for the second time: During extensive wildfire-related outages in October 2019 and the huge disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic Blue Lake Rancheria turned out to be a power island in the storm.