OUTSMART is a use case project between public-private organisations on Future Internet services and technologies in the context of environment and utilities in smart cities.
The goal of OUTSMART is to contribute to the Future Internet (FI) by developing five innovation ecosystems. These ecosystems facilitate the creation of a large variety of pilot services and technologies that contribute to optimised supply and access to services and resources in urban areas.
This will contribute to more sustainable utility provision and, through increased efficiency, lower strain on resources and on the environment.
OUTSMART services and technologies will be based on an open and standardised infrastructure and provided by a service framework designed to facilitate provisioning, development and access.
OUTSMART is run by a consortium of Danish and international public and private partners. The activities to be conducted during the project are centred in five key European cities and urban areas referred to as clusters:
- Aarhus, Denmark: Water and Sewage
- Berlin, Germany: Waste Management
- Birmingham, UK: Transport and Environment
- Trento, Italy: Water Management
- Santander, Spain: Street Light Management
The Alexandra Institute is the cluster leader for the Aarhus Cluster working closely together with Amplex and Aarhus Vand to deliver innovative public services for water and sewage. These services will be the basis for a set of challenging requirements for the Future Internet.
The Alexandra Institute is also responsible for the overall dissemination of the project results and collaboration with the overall Future Internet Private Public Partnership programme projects.
Anticipated research results: Intelligent services for Smart Cities, specifically addressing:
- Water and Sewage
- Waste Management
- Transport and Environment
- Water Management
- Street Light Management
Anticipated business results:
The Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) aims to advance Europe's competitiveness in Future Internet technologies and systems and to support the emergence of Future Internet-enhanced applications of public and societal relevance.
OUTSMART addresses the need to make public service infrastructures and business processes significantly smarter (i.e. more intelligent, more efficient, more sustainable) through tighter integration with Internet, networking and computing capabilities.
Reaching this goal requires the whole value chain, namely city authorities, utilities operators, ICT companies as well as knowledge institutions in order to have an industry-driven approach when developing advanced services and technologies.
In this project the Alexandra Institute collaborates with these partners:
For further information about the project, please contact
Mirko Presser.
The project is funded by (among others):
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EU 7th Framework Programme |
For further information about the project, please contact Mirko Presser.
OUTSMART has chosen to centre the envisioned pilots in the context of five key European cities and urban areas referred to as clusters.
Each of the clusters addresses a specific topic of the usage area and has been strategically chosen by the consortium to have a strong end user focus, including utilities and public organisations, lead by a strong local ICT organisation.
The five clusters are:
- Waste Management – Berlin, Germany cluster
- Water and Sewage – Aarhus, Denmark cluster
- Transport and Environment – London, United Kingdom cluster
- Smart Metering and Street Lighting – Santander, Spain cluster
- Water and Environment – Trento, Italy cluster