Smart City に代表される街づくりのためのデジタル技術にはいろんなものがあります。特に重要なのは IoT / Big Data そして AI です。
COVID-19で、その必要性が高まる中、もう一つ焦点を当てて考えたいコト。それは Sustainability です。
ここでは 2021年11月時点での、それらの関連性を見ていきます。
9. COVID-19パンデミックから気候変動へ,
1Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/
2Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus, with raw data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
COVID-19症例の合計:
どのくらい急速に増加してるか?2
COVID-19 Global Cases1
20. 40% 以上
米国のエネルギー消費量のうち、
商業ビルや住宅が占める割合1
5,000 万トン
1 年間に廃棄される電子/
電気機器の量。そのうち正
式にリサイクルされている
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1 往復
のフライトで、一部の国の
国民の年間排出量を超える
二酸化炭素が生成されてい
る3
1 Forbes: 「Intelligent Buildings: A Crucial Ally In The Fight Against Climate Change」、2 World Economic Forum: 「Circular Economy and Material Value Chains」、3 The Guardian: 「How your flight emits as much CO2 as many people do in a year」
31. 100% カーボンフリー Datacenter
- Microsoft Sweden Datacenter -
Microsoft opens its sustainable datacenter region in Sweden, creating new opportunities for a cloud-first Sweden – Microsoft News Centre Europe
Vattenfall 社とのパートナーシップによる
24/7 hourlyでの エネルギーマッチングプログラ
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Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold
certification の取得
再利用可能エネルギーの開
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Swedish Circular Center 設立による Serverな
どのハードウェアの再利用を促進 (ヨーロッパ
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雨水の湿度管理などデータセンター施設での利
用
Government IoT solutions from Microsoft can help connect infrastructures to better regulate traffic, make emergency systems more efficient, and reduce police and emergency response times. Microsoft gives you access to a comprehensive portfolio of products, services, and solutions to make the most of your IoT opportunities across devices, cloud, analytics, and backend systems. We make it possible for you to bring IoT to any device and any platform so you can use your existing infrastructure and have a flexible and scalable solution that adapts to your needs and processes.
Data can be hugely valuable in helping us address major challenges, like climate change, disease and how to spread prosperity
This is being demonstrated throughout the covid crisis, which is clearly one of the major challenges we are facing today
We see governments around the world opening data around infection rates and transmission patterns as they learn form each other around how to develop an effective response
Talking Points.
Satya Nadella shared this perspective on the Microsoft Q3 earnings call. COVID-19 forced our customers to accelerate their transformation in a way we hadn’t seen before.
“From remote teamwork and learning to sales and customer service to critical cloud infrastructure and security — we are working alongside customers every day to help them adapt and stay open for business in a world of remote everything”
We are seeing the same patterns playing out in Insurance . COVID-19 is accelerating pre-COVID-19 projects that were happening at a slower pace.
We don’t see Transformation Strategies changing – just acceleration in terms of execution. Necessity is the mother of invention.
When we catalogue our customer stories – we try to to do so in the context of our three scenarios - engage and connect with citizens, modernize the government workplace and, enhance government services.
You will see this throughout the examples I have in this presentation
1. Moovit/ATAF - Engage
Moovit is trusted by over 550M riders – more than any other app in the world. – present in almost 3,000 cities and 92 countries
We integrate Moovit’s public transit information (and Tom Tom) into Azure Maps to help developers build richer apps for billions of commuters around the world
In February, we announced a location intelligence platform for multi-modal trip planning, powered by both companies' API’s , where developers can integrate multi-modal trip planning into their IoT, mobility, smart city solutions to deliver real-time drive, park, and transit information within one trip plan.
ATAF (Azienda Trasporti dell'Area Fiorentina) is a public transportation provider in Florence which operates Bus routes since 1946. The ATAF has 41 Bus routes in Florence with 1114 Bus stops
Riders have a white labeled app which has suggested routes, real-time bus tracker, live directions, line route maps in Florence, and helps riders to find the closest bus stops
The transit agency is provided with dashboard displaying the information for all running vehicles that allows the operator to better manage their fleets,
Moovit TimePro has already been deployed by transit agencies in France, Spain, Italy and Indonesia.
2. Cubic – Transport for New South Wales - Modernize
The leading integrator of payment and information solutions and related services for intelligent travel applications in the transportation industry.
Successfully completed the implementation of Sydney’s new Opal contactless payments system
Millions of commuters are now tapping their way across the huge transport network of buses, ferries, trains and light rail in Australia’s largest city by simply using their contactless credit or debit card, mobile phone, mobile device or Opal card.
In geographical terms, it’s the world’s largest contactless system covering 40,000 square kilometers – as big as Switzerland, Denmark or the Netherlands.
Exciting new path towards frictionless end-to-end journeys with just one payment for both private and public transport – allowing commuters to access a seamless, integrated multi-state transport network with no prior knowledge of the local ticketing systems
3. BeMobile - City of Antwerp - Enhance
The City of Antwerp implemented a real-time traffic management platform. The solution guides traffic to off-street parking, provides mobility insights, suggests alternative transport modes, and implements an intermodal routing platform in Microsoft Azure.
The results include a decrease in the number of cars entering the city center, improved mobility flows, and an increase in the use of active transport modes
The MobiGo services mix works based on real-time and historical floating car data, traffic data, sensors, on- and off-street parking data, shared bicycle infrastructure, public transport information and specific instructions and data provided by local governments
1. City of Musson – Opinum - Engage
The Belgian city of Musson was struggling to optimize the inefficient process of water meter data collection and customer invoicing
After implementing Opinum’s Azure-based data management toolbox, Opisense, which enables integration with smart water meters and the city’s invoicing system with an open data communication protocol, including an open API. Information is collected from smart water meters, stored and processed on Azure, and then sent to the city’s invoicing system.
To offer a complete solution, Opinum partnered with MeterBuy for delivery and installation of smart meters, and Civadis for configuration with the invoicing system.
The first step was to install smart water meters, around 2,000 in total, which took about four months.
To do the reading, city employees take a tablet and drive by households in the course of doing their daily tasks. The tablet is equipped with a USB key containing software able to receive wireless information coming from digital meters. This information is sent automatically to the invoicing system.
2. Microsoft Campus – Modernize (talk about how we use this to showcase and peer-peer with customers such as Tegel Airport redevelopment
Microsoft redeveloping its Puget Sound campus to help attract and retain talent. 18 new buildings, 6.7 million square feet of renovated workspace
We have a $33.3 million funding agreement in place with Sound Transit for the construction of the Redmond Technology Center station and pedestrian bridge adjoining our campus
Microsoft has been 100 percent carbon neutral since 2012, We’re powering our campus with 100 percent local carbon-free hydropower
The new buildings will be Energy-Smart Buildings that use Azure for building system monitoring and optimization of energy usage
Contributed to a 20 percent energy usage reduction. Costs us $2M to run and $9M cost savings in existing buildings
We’re building an all-electric campus, eliminating the use of fossil fuels within our buildings for powering, heating, and even cooking
Sheer scale is amazing 164 buildings, 30K equipment, 2,000,000 sensor = 1/2B transactions daily. Every 5 minutes 2M sensors send new data….30,000 faults daily
Pull data from Building Controllers and Building Broadcast Message Device and which is able to scale to 2 mil data points (and more) collected every 5 mins. From edge device, data is ingested to cloud to IoT Hub, Event Hub and Stream Analytics for aggregation, then to Azure Sql and Data Lake for storage and analytics.
We’re maintaining our Zero Waste certification status that we first earned in 2016, which requires we divert at least 90 percent of our waste from landfills.
We have PowerBI reports to
identify equipment operating outside of prescribed norms,
identify spaces negatively impacting cost or comfort
derive energy savings through efficient fault detection and diagnosis
3. City of Gandia – Wellness Telecom – Enhance
Deployed IoT-connected light posts through Microsoft Azure. The resulting system allows for improved control, lower energy costs, better citywide lighting, and a 2,723-ton reduction in annual carbon emissions and 54% percent reduction in spending on street lighting and public buildings in Gandía
Wellness Telecom installed 13,152 new LED light poles, each outfitted with IoT devices that allowed them to be managed remotely via Microsoft Azure.
The city’s new IoT devices can report energy consumption deviations, their on/off status, and whether their bulbs are malfunctioning.
By monitoring these functions via dashboards populated with real-time citywide data and combining the use of the new lights with cloud-hosted information like daily sunrise and sunset times, local government can optimize the hours during which the grid is powered on.
By implementing these changes, the City of Gandía reduced the annual energy consumption of its light posts by 66 percent, resulting in a net savings of 20 percent on their electrical bill, an annual savings of €400,000 (USD450,000).
Over the next 15 years, the savings from the introduction of LED bulbs and the smart controllers that operate them will total USD9.6 million.
The City of Philadelphia – Opti
The City of Philadelphia operates a combined sewer system that handles both wastewater and stormwater. To help prevent heavy rains from overburdening the system, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) instaledl smart water monitoring and control technology running on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
The solution optimizes runoff storage and release to keep the sewers running smoothly, and it provides real-time and long-term data analysis that can help the PWD transform its operations.
During the first 212 days after installation, approximately 20 inches of rain fell on the site. Using OptiNimbus, PWD kept 2.7 million gallons of water out of the city’s combined sewer during the storms, which accounted for 98.8 percent of total runoff on the property.
We chose Azure for its reliability, scalability, and flexibility. We also trust its level of security
City of Seville - Modinize
The City of Seville municipal cleaning company Lipasam optimizes waste collection routes and planning resulting in an improved collection service, 66% reduction in costs and reduced fuel consumption and traffic congestion due to fewer trucks circulating
Quamtra, an Azure-based IoT system developed by WellnessTelecom, includes a hardware device for measuring waste container fill level and collect additional data, and a software platform for data management and visualization. These devices turn containers into smart items that generate real-time data about their status. That way, the collection manager receives useful information about the whole containers system, allowing them to make permanent adjustments on the collection routes, based on waste volume in containers. Alerts are generated during vandalism instances, floods or fire alerts, and the seasonality and dynamism of a city like Seville
With the information we received from the sensors and collection platform on containers’ fill level, we were able to reduce the number of pick up rounds from 3 every 12 days, down to 1 every 7 days.
This meant going from 100 rounds per year to 34, (66% Savings) and optimized routes, going from 3 static routes to 1 dynamic one, 400 less hours requiring a vehicle on streets per year, which also means traffic improvement and reducing noise and odours caused by collection trucks
City of Novi Sad – Serbia
Ambient (outdoor) air pollution is a major cause of death and disease globally, resulting in, according to the WHO, in 4.2 million deaths every year.
The Serbian city of Novi Sad is using an air quality monitoring network enabled by modern sensor and IoT Technologies which provides end to end, air quality and noise monitoring with an Azure cloud-based backend and web/mobile apps for visualization
Solution
Sensors: PM, CO, CO2, NO2, SO2, O3, temperature, humidity
Supported networks: 2/3/4G, NB-IoT, LoRa, WiFi
This solution is now being replicated in cities of Carouge (Switzerland) and Santander (Spain).
In 2018, Microsoft launched a global AI for Good program, providing resources and expertise to empower those working to tackle the world’s biggest problems using technology.
Earlier this year we created a program in our London accelerator and Social Tech Trust, to support companies working on products that can help people with specific accessibility needs
I wanted to highlight three that looked really interesting
WeWalk, a smart cane that can detect obstacles above chest level using an ultrasonic sensor and then warn the user through vibrations. It can also be paired with a map app on a mobile phone so the user can receive directions to a destination without having to carry their device.
The cane contains a touchpad, microphone and speaker, so can be controlled with voice
2. City MAAS – City MaaS are a start-up who have designed an accessible travel app which uses machine learning and crowdsourced data to gather information and give live travel updates according to your accessibility needs.
An intelligent framework for digital accessibility and digital optimization enabling digital platforms to offer personalized accessibility across a range of impairments
3. Access Earth – a free platform that allows users to find and rate places based on their accessibility needs
Organizations understandably focus first on their Scope 1 and 2 emissions—those generated through their own activities and operations. As a refresher:
Scope 1 emissions are the direct emissions that your activities create through direct use of fossil fuels, like transport trucks or diesel generators.
Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions that come from the production of the electricity or heat we use in our offices or plants.
In your own organization today, there are likely opportunities to proactively make changes in these areas to hit your sustainability targets:
By their very nature, buildings are big contributors to our emissions footprint, and this is the first place that many organizations turn to understand and reduce their impact through optimization and efficiency solutions.In North America, residential and commercial buildings consume an estimated 40 percent of the total U.S. energy generation, 54 percent of natural gas consumption and more than 70 percent of national electricity consumption.1The World Green Building Council estimates that every building on the planet must be ‘net-zero carbon’ by 2050 to keep global warming below 1.5°C – yet currently less than 1 percent of the global building stock meets this standard.2
Examine the footprint of your products. It’s probably bigger than you think. The “take-make-waste” approach to consuming, using, and disposing of materials and products simply isn’t sustainable. We need to shift to a circular economy, which promotes the elimination of waste and the continual safe use of natural resources. More organizations are embracing transparency on the footprint of their products today, while others are introducing new products designed to be circular or low-carbon. Admittedly, today it’s still hard to get credit for these changes given current standards, and harder still to calculate these product-level emissions.
And look at the activities of your people, and how they’re contributing to your carbon footprint. New video conferencing and collaborative work solutions have begun to lower the footprint from travel, and new approaches including low-carbon fuels exist. But they’re still hard to obtain and it’s hard to measure the impact of adoption. By hosting one Microsoft event for more than 2,000 attendees virtually as compared to in-person, we are estimated to have lowered carbon emissions associated with the event by nearly 5,000 metric tons. This is equivalent to removing roughly 390,000 cars from the road for one day, or the amount of carbon absorbed over 10 years by planting nearly 150 acres of forest, which is more than half the size of Central Park.5
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Sources:
1 “Intelligent Buildings: A Crucial Ally In The Fight Against Climate Change,” Forbes, 5 March 2020 and the Alliance to Save Energy
2 “The path to a greener future begins in our cities,” World Economic Forum, 11 March 2021
3 “Circular Economy and Material Value Chains,” World Economic Forum
4 “How your flight emits as much CO2 as many people do in a year,” The Guardian
5 “MVP Global summit goes online,” Microsoft, July 2020
私たちは、進歩するには、大胆な目標だけではなく綿密な計画が必要であることを認識しています。
マイクロソフトは、複雑な社会的課題の解決に新たに乗り出すときには、まず学び、次に取り組みの指針となる、規範に基づいたアプローチを定義することを目指します。このアプローチは、プライバシーの保護や人工知能の倫理的開発といった取り組みにおける基盤となってきましたが、今回の CO2 削減という野心的な目標の達成においても、同じアプローチを取ります。
私たちは、継続的にイノベーションを行い、常に歩みを進めていくためには、以下の 5 つの要素がきわめて重要であると結論づけました。
自社のカーボン フットプリントへの責任。マイクロソフトは、自社によるすべての CO2 排出量に責任を持ち、2030 年までに排出量を半分以下に削減し、年間排出量以上を除去できるようにします。
新たな CO2 削減および除去テクノロジへの投資。10 億ドルの自社資産を新たな Climate Innovation Fund とし、マイクロソフトのみならず世界がカーボン ネガティブになるよう支援する CO2 削減および除去テクノロジの開発を加速します。
世界中のお客様の支援。おそらく最も重要な点として、サプライヤーとお客様が自身のカーボン フットプリントを削減できるようにするためのデジタル テクノロジの開発と展開を行います。
効果的な透明性の確保。マイクロソフトは、自社の進捗状況の透明性を示すために、Global Reporting の厳格な標準に基づいて Environmental Sustainability Report を毎年公表します。
CO2 関連の公共政策の課題に対して声を上げる。マイクロソフトは、CO2 の削減と除去の機会を推進する新たな公共政策のイニシアティブをサポートしていきます。
これらを 1 つずつ詳しく説明します。
So, where exactly should you begin?
Step 1: Take note of your carbon emissions
Start by categorizing your emissions. Once you’ve broken down the different types of emissions your organization produces, focus on where you can make the biggest impact. See how Microsoft’s Sustainability Calculator can help you understand your footprint.
Step 2: Evaluate vendors, partners, and providers
Review who works with you and provides services. Ask them about steps they’re taking to reduce carbon emissions and investments they’re making in renewable resources. Partner with companies that share your goals.
Step 3: Create an incentive for teams to reduce carbon usage
A great way to do this is to charge groups a carbon fee based on their footprints. This helps keep everyone responsible for the company’s carbon impact.
Step 4: Enlist employee support
Look to employees for innovative ideas and support. Often employees will share your vision for reducing the organization’s carbon impact on the environment—and they have in-depth understanding of the day-to-day actions within your organization.
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Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sustainability/sustainability-guide?activetab=tap:primaryr3