The document discusses the enabling effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in combating climate change through smart technologies such as smart motors, buildings, logistics, and transportation. It highlights the efficiency and sustainability benefits of integrating ICTs into various systems, detailing applications like energy management in buildings and optimizing supply chains. It also provides examples of smart infrastructures, notably the Shanghai Tower, and emphasizes significant emissions reductions and cost savings through improved logistics and transportation systems.

1. Module 10
Session 6
(Seoul, Korea, 25 February 2011)
Session 6 Enabling effects of ICTs –
part 2 smart motors, smart buildings,
smart logistics & transportation, smart
cities
Richard Labelle
rlab@sympatico.ca

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Objectives of Module 10
To show that ICTs can be used to
address climate change
To demonstrate why ICTs are a
crucial part of the solution – i.e. in
promoting efficiency, Green Growth
& sustainable development

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What is a smart motor (1)
A variable rate motor with a
microprocessor embedded in it that
can be connected by mostly short
range communication technologies to
a central control system (a server on
the Internet for example).
Variable rate motor: can spin at
different speeds depending on load or
instructions

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What is a smart motor (2)
The embedded microprocessor is a
sensor with an actuator in it

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What is a smart motor (3)
Many smart motors connected
together can control motor processes
in different application areas:
Building motor systems: HVAC, lighting
Manufacturing processes: speed up the
production line or slow it down
Appliances in a home: wash / dry
cycles, etc.
PCs, peripherals, etc.

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What is a smart motor (4)
Smart motors connected together
form a WSN…
… that can be controlled centrally (or
locally) by a server system running
supervisory control and data
acquisition (SCADA) software…

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What is a smart motor (5)
… or that can be self controlled by
microprocessor in the motor
communicating with other smart
motors in its network…
PC or peripherals that shut down
automatically or that power down to
lower load levels (PC power
management software * power
consuming devices – not always
motors)

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What is a smart motor (6)
… enabling intelligent control of
motors, work and the possibility of
optimizing energy consumption over
time and space…
Allows integration with the smart
grid,
Facilitates demand side
management, etc.

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Definition of smart building
In a smart building, energy,
technology, telecommunications
and other building systems are all
interconnected in a way that allows
them to communicate with, and be
controlled by, a central ICT based
system, the building
management system (BMS).

10. Environmental impact of buildings
Responsible for about 40 % of global
GHG emissions
70 % global energy consumption
30 % of output of raw materials into
buildings
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11. What are smart buildings systems
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used for?
Controlling everything, not just
energy use
Other application areas:
Security
Deliveries
Entrance and exit
Elevators
Etc.

12. How does a smart building work? (1)
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Various sensors connected to the
BMS measure and report on:
Occupancy
CO2, CO, NH4, etc.
Smoke levels
Light levels
Temperature
Humidity
Air flow
Video suveillance, etc.
Wired or
Wireless SNs

13. How does a smart building work? (2)
Readout of data from sensor
networks: done by a smart meter
Network of smart meters involving
embedded sensors called advanced
meter infrastructure (AMI)
All brought together under a building
management system (BMS) using
SCADA type software
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What can a smart building do?
Consider elevators (again!)
Readout of data from sensor
networks: done by a smart meter
Network of smart meters involving
embedded sensors called advanced
meter infrastructure (AMI)

15. What can a smart building do? Consider
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elevators (again!)
IBM. 2010. Smarter Buildings Survey. Consumers Rank Their Office Buildings. 8 pages. http://www-
03.ibm.com/press/attachments/IBM_Smarter_Buildings_Survey_White_Paper.pdf
© 2010 IBM Corporation

16. Smart buildings allow for integration
of renewable energy & water sources
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Energy harvesting
Passive and active solar, wind
Heat pumps: heat exchange &
harvesting from ground (sub-soil)
Micro hydro
Energy generation
Fuel cells
Rain water harvesting

17. Other benefits of smart buildings
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ROI: very high because of energy
and other savings (water) and
productivity benefits
Facilitate design of Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) certified buildings
Smart buildings and LEED certification
are NOT the same thing, but using
smart building technologies & practices
can contribute to achieving LEED
certification.

18. Building information modeling (BIM)
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Design tool that enables architects,
engineers, and builders to explore a
project digitally before it is built
Facilitates construction workflow
Explore multiple design options within a
single building model and simulate
energy, water and carbon use
Feed in site specific data & use software
to optimize environmental design
factors.

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Examples from the region
Mostly in China, Korea, Japan,
Singapore

20. BIM applied to the 2nd tallest bldg in the
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world: Shanghai Tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Tower

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Shanghai Tower
Consider the: Shanghai Tower
632 metres
128 stories
Contain an area of 380,000 m2
Tallest building in China
Second tallest in the world.

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Shanghai Tower
The tower will be organized as nine
cylindrical buildings stacked atop
each other, enclosed by the glass
façade's inner layer
Between that and the outer layer,
which twists as it rises, nine indoor
zones will provide public space for
visitors

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Shanghai Tower
The design of the glass façade is
described to be able to reduce wind
loads on the building by 24%
Meaning less construction materials are
needed
The twisting feature will collect
rainwater to be used for the tower's
air conditioning and heating systems.

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Shanghai Tower
Wind turbines will generate power for
the building
The first super-tall (300 metres or
taller) double-skin building in the
world, acting much like a "thermos
bottle,“ to insulate it and save
energy
Designed and built using BIM!

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BIM – how does it work!
Look at Autodesk Presentation from
Cop15

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BIM use
Increasingly used everywhere
The US General Services
Administration (GSA) responsible for
all buildings requires BIM analysis for
all new buildings and retrofits
Show Autodesk BIM video:
http://usa.autodesk.com/company/build
ing-information-modeling/sustainability
or here:
http://bit.ly/GL6Le

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Benefits of smart buildings
The Climate group and GeSI. 2008. Smart 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age. 87 pp.
& . OECD. 2009. Smart Sensor Networks: Technologies and Applications for Green Growth. Dec. 2009.
OECD, Paris, 48 pp.

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Conclusions
Green design
Building information Modeling (BIM)
Instrumenting buildings:
HVAC, power consumption, etc. with
smart motors, sensors and actuators
Connecting all motor driven systems
to a network of sensors and control
devices
Improve air quality
Reduce energy consumption

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Smart logistics
Using ICTs to manage the supply
chain
Focus on the transport of goods
packaging, transport, storage,
consumer purchasing and waste”
Major source of emissions & energy
consumption

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Smart logistics & transportation
Most emissions come from transport
and storage.
Optimizing logistics using ICTs could
result in a 16 % reduction in transport
emissions and a 27 % reduction in total
global emissions from transport

31. Smart logistics: benefits of using ICTs
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Efficiency gains:
When a company uses ICTs to more
effectively manage its supply chain
Structural gains:
Using the Internet to limit inventories
and the use of warehouses
Placing stores on the Internet (online
shopping) rather than constructing retail
facilities (bricks and mortar)

32. Smart logistics: benefits of using ICTs
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When companies put their supply
chain on the Internet:
Reduce inventories, overproduction,
unnecessary capital purchases, paper
transactions, mistaken orders, etc. 
greater output with less energy
consumption

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Smart logistics: examples (1)
IBM uses the Internet to link all of its
production facilities to find out before
hand the availability of production
facilities and to shift production
accordingly.
By mid-1998, the reduced investments
and operating costs had saved the
company USD 500 billion.

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Smart logistics: examples (2)
Home Depot bypasses the
warehouse:
85% of its merchandise moves directly
from the manufacturer to the storefront.

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Smart logistics: examples (3)
Collaborative Planning Forecasting
Replenishment (CPFR) makes use of
the Internet to improve forecasting
and restocking.
Ernst & Young has estimated this could
lead to a 25% to 35% cut in finished
goods inventory across the supply
chain.

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Benefits of smart logistics
The Climate group and GeSI. 2008. Smart 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age. 87 pp.
& . OECD. 2009. Smart Sensor Networks: Technologies and Applications for Green Growth. Dec. 2009.
OECD, Paris, 48 pp.

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Conclusion
Massive inventory savings possible
using e-commerce
This applies everywhere

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Smart transportation
Intelligent transportation systems
(ITS) allow for transport optimization
and make use of traffic flow
monitoring, planning and simulation
technologies

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Smart transportation
Advanced traveler information
systems
Real time traffic information
Advanced transportation
management systems
Smart transportation pricing systems
Advanced public transportation
systems
Smart vehicles (communications with
transportation system sensors, etc.)

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Smart transportation
ICTs “enable elements within the
transportation system - vehicles,
roads, traffic lights, message signs,
etc., to become intelligent by
embedding them with microchips and
sensors and empowering them to
communicate with each other
through wireless technologies

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Key technologies
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Short Range Communications
Wireless Networks
Mobile Telephony
Radiowave or Infrared Beacons
Roadside Camera Recognition
Probe Vehicles or Devices

42. Technologies Associated with Real-Time
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Traffic Information Systems
Ezell, S. 2010. 2010. Explaining International IT Application Leadership: Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Washington, D.C. 58 pp.
http://www.itif.org/publications/explaining-international-it-application-leadership-intelligent-transportation-systems

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Japan’s Vehicle Information and
Communications System
Ezell, S. 2010. 2010. Explaining International IT Application Leadership: Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Washington, D.C. 58 pp.
http://www.itif.org/publications/explaining-international-it-application-leadership-intelligent-transportation-systems

44. Time Losses Due to Traffic Congestion,
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Nationwide, in Japan
Ezell, S. 2010. 2010. Explaining International IT Application Leadership: Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Washington, D.C. 58 pp.
http://www.itif.org/publications/explaining-international-it-application-leadership-intelligent-transportation-systems

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South Korea’s National Intelligent
Transportation System (ITS) Service
Ezell, S. 2010. 2010. Explaining International IT Application Leadership: Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Washington, D.C. 58 pp.
http://www.itif.org/publications/explaining-international-it-application-leadership-intelligent-transportation-systems

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Conclusions
Applicable everywhere, but especially
to highly congested cities
Real energy savings and GHG
emission reductions, but important
for improving quality of life in cities

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Discussion