Making cities more sustainable and supporting climate-wise living
The mySMARTLife project aims at making the three Lighthouse Cities of Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki more environmentally friendly by reducing the CO2 emissions of cities and increasing the use of renewable energy sources.
Activities are focusing on ”Inclusive Cities”, offering a high quality of life to residents. ”Smart People” are playing a vital role in city’s development. ”Smart Economy” is an innovative and dynamic economic concept aiming at guaranteed employment and an adequate income, attracting talents and providing goods and services according to the actual requirements.
The interventions planned and carried out in the three Lighthouse Cities also include innovative technological solutions in connection with refurbishments of buildings, usage of renewable energies, clean transport and supporting ICT solutions.
mySMARTLife activities in Helsinki
In Helsinki area, four zones of intervention for the 47 mySMARTLife actions can be identified as:
Zone 1 (”Merihaka & Vilhonvuori” retrofitting area) is the residential retrofitting zone where large retrofitting actions are taking place, including smart metering and control for heat demand response. This service will also be connected to the urban platform through IoT allowing a performance evaluation and thermal imaging e.g. to pinpoint heat loss and management and optimisation of the district heating and cooling.
Activities in Zone 2 (”Kalasatama” new construction area) are focusing on the construction of a high-performance residential zone with smart home solutions, smart meters in all flats, the integration of renewable energy sources for example to the e-mobility charging network and utilising waste heat from individual sources.
Zone 3 (Viikki environment house) comprises a high performance office building where the contribution of renewable energy sources will be maximised through a better control and power management.
Zone 4 covers the entire district and even city level. Several interventions, mainly mobility actions, will be implemented.
ACTION OVERVIEWS
Mobility
- Autonomous electric bus pilot
- Electromobility charging node
- Smart personal EV charger system
- Data from charging infrastructure
- Electrification of the maintenance and logistics
- Charging as a service
Energy
- Data and demand response
- Heat demand response
- Retrofitting of the residential constructions
- District heating systems
- Smart office building demonstrations
ICT and digital
- Urban data services
- Visualization of the Suvilahti district energy performance
- Solar power production as a service
- Carbon Ego mobile application
City infrastructure
- Kalasatama sunZEB block
- Solar powered charging stations for electric devices
- Smart lighting in Korkeasaari zoo
- Urban platform
Policy improvements
Photo: Jussi Hellsten / Helsinki Marketing
Contact
Maria Uusitalo
mySMARTLife project coordinator in Helsinki
maria.uusitalo@hel.fi
tel. +358 40 623 7081
