Commission nominates Fraunhofer to lead smart cities project
The European Commission has nominated Fraunhofer IAO’s Triangulum project to be the lead project for the Smart Cities and Communities initiative.
Smart Cities and Communities will transform designated urban districts into smart quarters in three forerunner cities and then transfer the concepts to three further cities. A total of 23 European partners from urban municipalities, research and industry are involved. Fraunhofer IAO will lead the strategic partnership to develop smart urban districts.
Alanus von Radecki, project manager at Fraunhofer IAO and leader of the Triangulum project, said: “Our goal is to find viable solutions to make cities sustainable, smart and liveable in the future. To achieve this, we are implementing pioneering concepts for sustainable energy supply, mobility and ICT, initially in three selected cities.
“At the heart of our project is an ICT architecture that will be used in all three flagship cities. It is the foundation that enables the individual technologies in the city to be connected and co-ordinated with each other.”
The Triangulum project focuses on the concepts of ‘demonstrate, disseminate and reciprocate’ and will implement pioneering concepts in the cities of Manchester (UK), Eindhoven (the Netherlands) and Stavanger (Norway) with support from the EU. Subsequently, the concepts will be transferred to Leipzig (Germany), Prague (Czech Republic), and Sabadell (Spain). The project emerged from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s Morgenstadt (‘city of tomorrow’) initiative.
Triangulum was selected out of 19 submissions to the Commission to be part of the Smart Cities and Communities initiative and was also selected for a strategic partnership within Horizon 2020.
