The document discusses plans for Smart City Maribor and the role of Nigrad d.d., a Slovenian utility company, in developing Maribor into a pilot smart city. Specifically, it outlines three key points:
1) By 2050, nearly 70% of the world's population will live in urban areas, exacerbating environmental and social challenges. Cities need to become "smart cities" to manage these challenges.
2) Nigrad provides various public utility services in Maribor and aims to develop Maribor into a pilot smart city through projects in areas like smart winter service, road audits, environmental integration, and infrastructure like street lighting and sewerage systems.
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These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardised method to collect
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achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
becoming a smarter city
becoming a more sustainable city
The indicators will enable cities to measure their progress over time, compare their performance to other
cities and through analysis and sharing allow for the dissemination of best practices and set standards for
progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level.
For more information visit: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx
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Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable C...ITU
These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardised method to collect
data and measure performance and progress to:
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
becoming a smarter city
becoming a more sustainable city
The indicators will enable cities to measure their progress over time, compare their performance to other
cities and through analysis and sharing allow for the dissemination of best practices and set standards for
progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level.
For more information visit: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx
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2. By 2050 the world’s population is expected to increase from 7 billion to over 9 billion and nearly 70 % of
the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas, exacerbating environmental and social challenges1
.
Currently, around half of all urban population live in cities with between 100 000–500 000 people.
Cities are becoming more and more a focal point of our economies and societies at large, particulary of on-
going urbanisation. Cities need to change and develop, but this change has to be achieved in a smart way:
our cities need to become Smart Cities.
Smart Cities are systems of people interacting with and using flows of energy, materials, services and
financing, catalysing sustainable economic development, resilience, and high quality of life; these flows and
interactions become smart through making strategic use of information and communication infrastructure
and services in a process of urban planning and management, which is also responsive to the social,
economic and environmental needs of society.
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OECD environmental outlook to 2050 The consequence of Inaction – Highlights
3. Nigrad d.d. is a utility company with more than 150-years long tradition. Nigrad d.d. provides numerous
public utility (communal) services such as:
• maintaining waste water treatment plants,
• maintaining and managing public streetlights and other lighting facilities (e.g. traffic lights,
Christmas decoration, …),
• maintaining public roads, roads for cyclists, pavements, parking places, city’s green areas, ...
• managing central register for several municipalities,
• etc.
Nigrad d.d. has obtained several international
certificates for quality of services, e.g. ISO
9001, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, showing
that an emphasis is given to the quality,
environmental preservation and social
responsibility.
Vision of Nigrad d.d.:
to create a basis for the development of
Maribor as a Smart City by merging local and
global R&D capacities, cities and high-tech
companies.
Nigrad d.d. - a sustainable utiliy company
4. • one of the world’s leading cities in
the field of technologies and services
for Smart Cities
• a strong international Smart City
development centre (test-bed),
fostering innovation and international
collaboration
Smart City Maribor
Nigrad’s existing projects initiate a number of Smart City projects with several national and international
partners that actively participate by building and developing Maribor to become a pilot Smart City and
further establish a smart region.
Maribor is a post-industrial city with a unique geographical location in Central Europe. Therefore, Maribor
could become:
Smart City infrastructure presents one of the most important research and development priority
areas at the global level. It relates to the development of ICT, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud
Computing and analytics of Big Data.
From the technological aspect a development of Smart Cities also opens and widens new areas that
support innovative solutions and business models.
China and Slovenia need each other to
build a bridge in their pursuit of economic,
social and environmental development, where
better collaboration will result in mutual
benefits – Smart Cities.
Objectives:
• develop mutually beneficial Sino-European Smart City Community, based on concrete collaboration
between Maribor, Nigrad and Chinese partner cities, including high-tech companies
• realize a concept of the “community of common destiny” between China and Slovenia
5. Smart City Services
Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Big Data
Smart City services
for end-users
“Real world” data of
public infrastructure
Smart services for
maintenance and
management of public
infrastructure
6. Case study - Smart City Winter Service
Ploughing and salting public roads
1) GPS vehicle tracking
2) GIS and mapping tools
3) Strong analytical and optimization tools
4) System maintenance and real-time inspection
5) Optimisation of driving directions and routes
Optimisation options offered by developed software:
• Time to plough
• Total km traveled
• Number of vehicles used
• Interventions cases (e.g. wrongly parked cars, break downs ...)
• Refilling bases
• Cost
• Further optimization options
Maribor case:
• 41 existing ploughing and salting plans
for Maribor when evaluated and optimised
• In general, more than 30 % savings have
been reached, by defining optimal routes
• Drivers are equipped with on-board
navigation systems supporting on-line
optimisation of routes
• Savings are greater combining more
optimisation options (e.g. refilling bases)
7. Case study - A complete road audit service
A development of an innovative Smart City solution for a complete road audit service by using modern
navigation and software tools.
Well educated team of experts and researchers ensures acquiring relevant and reliable “real-time” on-line
data from the field. These data presents key information by designing and executing road re-construction,
including evidences and photo material.
Nigrad d.d. has a full (100 %) control on
the whole road network situation, which
ensures high quality services.
Modern equipment for in-situ (field) work.
Definig micro-locations using GPS.
Determine road damages re-construction send
info to data bases keep the records
in-situ
working group
8. Smart Central Register for City’s Infrastructure
Data model of the real world = spatial geolocation + attributes + time component
Enabling:
• Architecture of time determined public infrastructure network
• Digital control, management and maintenance of public infrastructure (roads, public lighting,
sewerage system, traffic lights, green areas, …)
• Modelling of future public Smart City options
Smart Green areas
• Quality control, management, maintenance and design of the city’s green areas (mowing, loping,
planting, etc.)
• Model green areas “working events” - gathering data about the workload, resources, recycling
possibilities of green material, ...
Integration of environmental issues
Reducing environmental impact is one of the biggest challenges facing global society and its economy.
Cities contribute an important proportion of greenhouse gas emissions and hence have a significant impact
on the environment.
Smart City requires also an evaluation of environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of individual
sources. Thus, the integration of environmental issues in the development of Smart Cities is a key
part for a successful sustainable development of urban areas.
9. Smart Street and Traffic Lighting
Smart Street Lighting
• Intelligent LED streetlights, merged into network and linked to smart grids
• High level communication protocols
Cutting edge technology ensures:
• automatic adaptation of lights on weather conditions
• control of energy costs of street lights,
• monitor pollution and other environmental parameters
• monitor movements of vehicles
Smart Traffic System
A development of an innovative Smart City solution, ensuring and further optimizing urban mobility,
including advanced devices positioned at pedestrian crossings, road intersections and other places to
control the traffic flows.
Investing in this Smart Traffic System includes modernisation and automation of road traffic - upgrading it
in a direction to fulfil a definition of Complete Mobility. This goal can be achieved with:
• smart traffic control centre
• adaptive traffic control
• LED signalling system
• intermodal traffic management
Smart street lighting and traffic systems have
direct effects on costs and environment,
ensuring
• energy efficiency,
• reductions of traffic jams and flow
• decrease of environmental impacts caused
by traffic and street lights.
10. Smart Model for Sewerage System
After use, drinking water becomes a municipal wastewater and flows with industrial
wastewater and rainwater into the public sewerage system.
Sewerage system consists of various pipes, technological facilities such as
pumping stations, dischargers, retention basins, docking facilities, inspection
chambers, water treatment plants, etc.
Smart model of sewerage system is based on:
• ICT supported and remotely controlled facilities from the central control platform
• geographical database of sewerage system and data from monitoring processes:
volumetric flow rate, content of contaminated/non-contaminated water, etc.
Nigrad d.d. also has an accredited research laboratory, which main activities are:
• research and development in the field of wastewater
• monitoring, optimisation and certification of wastewater treatment plants
• expert evaluations of environmental impacts
• etc.
Smart sewerage model enables:
• a quick detection of malfunctions in the
system (effective intervention of defects),
• elimination of bottlenecks,
• simulation of processes when planning
new parts of the sewerage system
• detection of rainwater quantity within the
sewerage system
• detection of excessive overflow of
wastewater
Improved every-day decision making
processes, planning, maintenance and
management of sewerage system
11. Pilot project
developed/
operational
In the
development
phase
Planned Costs (EUR) Benefits, Products and Investment returns
Marketing and Further Development
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Partnership
Smart winter
service – a
research project
400.000 EUR
- less fuel consumption (more than 30 % saving annually);
- lower environmental emissions
- investment returns: ≤ 6 years
- common market
- maintenance
- further development
- implementation for upgraded solutions
Complete road
audit service
150.000 EUR
- this services is required by the Slovenian law
- less fuel consumption (around 25 %) due optimised paths
- less costs with indemnities, improved road safety
- investment returns: ≤ 3 years
- common market
- maintenance
- further development
- implementation for upgraded solutions
Integration of
environmental
issues into
smart city
services – a
research project
150.000 EUR
- lower environmental emissions and costs
(e.g. CO2
tax reduction)
- common market
- further development (R&D) on integration of
environmental issues into Smart City solutions
Smart public
lighting in the
city of Maribor
(around 14 600
public lights)
6.000.000–
7.000.000 EUR
- savings in energy consumption - lower environmental
emissions (e.g. CO2
for 60 % - CO2
tax reduction)
- possibility to obtain co-financing from EU funds
- investment returns: ≥ 7 years
- common market
- maintenance
- further development
- implementation for upgraded solutions
Smart City
Green areas
300.000 EUR
- less fuel consumption (around 25 %) due optimised paths
- lower environmental emissions and costs (e.g. CO2
tax
reduction)
- new products from a “wasted green material” – wooden pallets, etc.
- investment returns: ≤ 3 years
- common market
- maintenance
- further development
- implementation for upgraded solutions
Smart
Sewerage
System
2.500.000 EUR
- ICT supported and remotely controlled facilities from the
central control platform
- geographical database of sewerage system and data from
monitoring processes: volumetric flow rate, content of
contaminated/non-contaminated water, etc.
- investment returns: ≤ 5 years
- sensor technology – Chinese companies
- common market for new developed services
- implementation for upgraded solutions
- common R&D (know-how)
New products
from Sewage
sludge
(linked
to Snaga
company)
2.000.000 EUR
- development of new technologies
- new marketable patents
- new products (“terra preta”, melting agents, deodorizer, and
reaction auxiliary product, etc.), that are direct substitution
to the current product on the market
- product on the market and manufacturing equipment
are to market ready within 2-3 years period after the start
of the project
- investment returns: ≥ 6 years
- common market for new products from sewage sludge
- common market for new developed technologies
- implementation for upgraded solutions
- pilot testing
- common R&D (know-how)
Small
wastewater
treatment
plants
750.000 EUR
- development of service – products, build-in,
maintenance, monitoring, …
- investment returns: ≤ 2 years
- small wastewater treatment plants (SWTP) –
Chinese companies
- Nigrad carries out a certification process of SWTP
for EU (market opportunity)
- implementation for upgraded solutions
- pilot testing
- common R&D (know-how)
Traffic control
smart service
17.500.000 EUR
- smart traffic control centre
- adaptive traffic control
- LED signalling system
- intermodal traffic management
- investment returns: ≤ 8 years
- technologies – Chinese companies
- common R&D (know-how)
- implementation for upgraded solutions
- pilot testing
- enter to the EU and other Western markets
(technologies, services, products)
12. EuroCloud China-EU Collaboration
• September 2012, meeting between CIE&EuroCloud Europe in Brussels,
where collaboration road map was defined
• December 2012, EuroCloud Europe has launched a Request for Proposals
for Proof of Projects
• February 2013, three POCs were introduced to CIE to bring EU-China collaboration
into place
• June 2013 - EuroCloud delegation & POCs visiting 5th
China Cloud Computing
Conference, Beijing
• Nigrad delegation (on behalf of EuroCloud) participated on the Urbanisation Forum
Beijing November 2013 - Themes: creative city, smart city, green city, urban transport
Currently Open Call within Horizon2020:
• Enhancing and focusing research and innovation cooperation with the Union’s key
international partner countries - proposals China
Main project idea:
• ICT&Smart Cities, including Big Data, Cloud, Internet of Things, network technologies
• Research about existing Smart City activities – road-mapping of technologies in EU and China,
important fields of common interest, harmonisations, collaboration on 3rd
markets, common
organisation of conferences, workshops, etc.
• Coordination and Support Action
Looking for Chinese Project Partners: cities, research organisations
dealing with ICT and Smart Cities, companies, ...
Existing and Possible Further Collaboration
• Nigrad collaborates with high-tech
companies and other EU organizations e.g.
Euro Cloud, Abelium, Poligram, X-lab, …
• Some existing collaboration through
project partnerships with: Chinese
Institute of Electronics, Chinese
Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology, BingoSoft, …
13. Nigrad d.d, a utility company
Address Zagrebška cesta 30, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Phone + 386 2 4500 300
Fax + 386 2 4500 362
E-mail info@nigrad.si
Website www.nigrad.si
The principal activity Sewerage
Activity code E37.000
Year of establishment Since 1857
VAT identification number SI71083715
Company registration number 5066310000
CEO MSc. Vladimir Krajcer
GPS coordinates N 46°31’59.94”
E 15°39’36.33”
14. Conference topics
1. Experiences with Sustainable/Smart Cities and Communities
2. Improvements in Resource Efficiency, Sustainable Production
and Improved Process, Product and Service Design
3. Advances in ‘Real’ Sustainable Consumption and Beyond GDP Initiative
4. New Initiatives in Education for Sustainable Development
5. Results of Sustainability Innovations Research and Development
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