mySMARTLife
Making cities more sustainable and supporting climate-wise living
The mySMARTLife project aims at making the three Lighthouse Cities of Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki more environmentally friendly by reducing the CO2 emissions of cities and increasing the use of renewable energy sources.
Activities are focusing on ”Inclusive Cities”, offering a high quality of life to residents. ”Smart People” are playing a vital role in city’s development. ”Smart Economy” is an innovative and dynamic economic concept aiming at guaranteed employment and an adequate income, attracting talents and providing goods and services according to the actual requirements.
The interventions planned and carried out in the three Lighthouse Cities also include innovative technological solutions in connection with refurbishments of buildings, usage of renewable energies, clean transport and supporting ICT solutions.
mySMARTLife
Years of operation
12/2016 – 9/2022
Project coordinator
Maria Uusitalo
firstname.lastname@hel.fi
+358 40 623 7081
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731297.
mySMARTLife activities in Helsinki
In Helsinki area, four zones of intervention for the 47 mySMARTLife actions can be identified as:
Zone 1 (”Merihaka & Vilhonvuori” retrofitting area) is the residential retrofitting zone where large retrofitting actions are taking place, including smart metering and control for heat demand response. This service will also be connected to the urban platform through IoT allowing a performance evaluation and thermal imaging e.g. to pinpoint heat loss and management and optimisation of the district heating and cooling.
Activities in Zone 2 (”Kalasatama” new construction area) are focusing on the construction of a high-performance residential zone with smart home solutions, smart meters in all flats, the integration of renewable energy sources for example to the e-mobility charging network and utilising waste heat from individual sources.
Zone 3 (Viikki environment house) comprises a high performance office building where the contribution of renewable energy sources will be maximised through a better control and power management.
Zone 4 covers the entire district and even city level. Several interventions, mainly mobility actions, will be implemented.
ACTION OVERVIEWS
Mobility
Autonomous electric bus pilot
Electromobility charging node
Smart personal EV charger system
Data from charging infrastructure
Electrification of the maintenance and logistics
Charging as a service
Energy
Data and demand response
Heat demand response
Retrofitting of the residential constructions
District heating systems
Smart office building demonstrations
ICT and digital
Urban data services
Visualization of the Suvilahti district energy performance
Solar power production as a service
Carbon Ego mobile application
City infrastructure
Kalasatama sunZEB block
Solar powered charging stations for electric devices
Smart lighting in Korkeasaari zoo
Urban platform
Policy improvements
Energyrenaissance strategy
Plot assignment stipulations to scale smart homes
Contact
Maria Uusitalo
mySMARTLife project coordinator in Helsinki
maria.uusitalo@hel.fi
tel. +358 40 623 7081
