Track: Smart Cities / Smart Buildings

Home appliance technology is simple: You push a few buttons and food is cooked, clothes are washed, and perishable products stay fresh. Much more happens behind the scenes, however, from the use of robotics and IT/OT technologies on the manufacturing line to the key roles data analytics, AI, and remote sensing play from delivery to the point where consumers plug in and use smart, connected appliances.

Achieving Net Zero Carbon is one of the most pressing built environment issues on the planet. In the panel, we will discuss practical strategies, use cases and real-world examples of what industry leaders are doing to reduce their carbon expenditure in building, communities and cities.

How to cocreate worldwide Smart-Building-Standards for a global Company with more than 50.000 Employees? - offering user-centered technologies responding to useres needs - supporting employees in their daily work - propelling Henkel's climate strategy - leveraging the existing technology ecosystem; introducing new technologies and creating standards to connect future use cases - intelligent co-thinking environment - holistic scalable solutions and integration into the existing and ever-devopling ecosystem - open, Vendor-independent design including API standards and open source approaches

Electric Places Community Interest Company collaborated with Slingshot Simulations Ltd to develop a geospatial digital twin to help them solve a significant challenge in relation to meeting Net Zero targets within the region. This project helped digitally represent the region and offer a visual and co-simulation optioneering, data-based route to identify the optimal projects and locations to deliver Net Zero solutions.

Many legacy systems are facing the challenges of Industry 4.0 and how to integrate their equipment with IT and the Cloud. This study presents how a large city in North America hired a systems integrator to integrate 120 water pumps, PLCs, and large sludge dewatering equipment with Azure IoT cloud for real-time dashboards, analytics, and machine learning. City managers use this information to shift from large capital purchases to an Equipment as a Service model based on actual usage fees. Using low-code, edge computing paradigms, this solution was designed and implemented in record time.

Technologies for buildings have now reached a maturity that they’re no longer the purview of the innovation function alone. They’re now being put to work to help organisations actively solve their part in societal issues: be that the race to net zero carbon, equity and inclusion in the workplace or solving the challenges of hybrid working. In this presentation, Dr Matthew Marson will highlight some past experiences towards helping solve those challenges and some of the errors made along the way.

In this session, representatives from Ameresco and Bristol City Council will introduce a new joint venture – the Bristol City Leap program, a blueprint for smart cities to reach net zero. Session attendees will learn the benefits of using public-private sector investments to reach sustainability goals at scale. Discover how the City of Bristol will use a combination of connected sustainable technologies to replace its entire infrastructure and reduce its carbon footprint by 140,000 tonnes to reach its goal of decarbonising the city's energy system by 2030.

Digital Twins require modeling, information and data models, 2D and 3D spatial models, system models, simulation models, and more. In this session we will explore the various model types, their purpose, and their value. We will also discuss how all the models need to come together and the state of interoperability and standards.

Tampere, Finland is leading multiple live digital transformation projects including an autonomous shuttle bus, smart street lighting as well as a new citywide Data-Driven City for Citizens program. Explore how they are building a private 5G network to enable the use, transfer and sharing of massive amounts of data, opening new possibilities to address these needs. Learn how tight collaboration – between cities, businesses, citizens, researchers, and authorities – has been key to Tampere’s success. Discover what can be achieved with the right partners sharing a similar vision.

Flying Forward is a 3-year collaborative EU-funded research project to develop a new Urban Air Mobility ecosystem. It incorporates Urban Air Mobility within a geospatial data infrastructure of cities. AIs and Spatial Twins are at the heart of that new infrastructure. They use sensor fusion and provide the capabilities to govern the behavior of autonomous drones flying in urban areas and integrate legal and spatial policies in the simulation and execution of the scenarios. (e.g. infrastructure inspection, delivery, surveillance)

This Keynote will be opened by KNX Association CEO, Heinz Lux, with a review of how a solid foundation guarantees a future-proof, secure and state-of-the-art technology.

Major events take years to plan, but digital twin and GIS mapping technology are now unlocking new benefits for cities and organising committees. As the Official Supporter of Digital Twin Software for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, OnePlan has a unique perspective on how these technologies can benefit major events and the cities that host them. From venue operations to security scenario planning, transport logistics, workforce management, and more, learn how users can visually plan like never before - enabling virtual site visits to happen at any time from anywhere in the world.

These days, it is widespread to hear about the benefits of ""smart things"" connected or IoT devices used across verticals. The Cities of tomorrow are designed to improve our citizens' lives using the best technologies to get different information and make better decisions. But this approach comes with a new risk we must approach to be successful and reliant. This session will explore how to see all the devices and vulnerabilities in these new topologies to understand the risks. Learn how to protect the systems from other threats. Discover how this new model needs a different approach from the traditional IT approach to protect it.

The value of Digital Twins can only be realized if Digital Twins and their virtual environment contain the same data and resulting information as their corresponding Physical Twins and real world environment. This means that the need for more extensive, faster, and richer sensing of the physical world will dramatically increase as valuable use cases proliferate. In addition, we will evolve from working in either the physical or virtual environments to integrating and working simultaneously in both environments. Dr. Grieves will discuss his views of the opportunities and issues of this evolution.

In order to meet its environmental, production quality and management optimization challenges, VINCI Construction has implemented a technological platform based on the Azure stack, along with Avanade. This collaboration around data, analytics and digital twin has enabled VINCI Construction to monitor its asphalt plants and energy consumption. During this session, discover the project implementation methodology as well as concrete use cases.

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to radically change mobility in cities, but evidence shows that without trust public acceptance is unlikely. This session explores innovative consumer engagement and service design with members of the public to build trust and co-design autonomous vehicle services through physical trials and an innovative immersive virtual reality program to engage schools. This solution is designed to improve public trust and support technology deployment to support the delivery of city sustainability goals.

Setting up the future for IoT industry in home and building automation Description: This presentation will describe how strong technologies can set up the future of the IoT industry in home and building. As a result, it will be introduced the KNX IoTech Programme, a framework that sets a best standard for the IoT industry.