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Making a small corner of Vienna just a little smarter

Siemens AG is leading a consortium undertaking a new smart city research initiative in the new Aspern district of the Austrian capital. The German engineering goliath is the lead partner in a public private partnership called Aspern Smart City Research. The project, which has a five-year budget of $41 million, includes two energy providers to Vienna, Wien Energie and Wiener Netze as the other big partners. The ultimate goal of the research project is to develop innovative energy production solutions for future cities. The research is expected to lay the groundwork for services that utilities could provide in the future like flexible energy tariffs that could factor in the contribution of account prosumers. Another result of the research is to increase efficiency of energy production through the real-time analysis of weather conditions. Just three buildings for now Currently the smart cities research is focused on three buildings that are generating 2 million pieces of data daily. Data is coming from a 213-unit apartment building, a school and a student lodging building. Construction on the new city of Aspern was begun from scratch in 2008 on the site of a former airport.

 

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