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At a Glance
05 | February 2015
10 Cover Story:
Melbournes Lord Mayor Robert Doyle
Australias second-largest metropolis has repeatedly been voted the worlds most livable city. urbanDNA met
with Lord Mayor Robert Doyle to discuss long-term planning and lateral thinking to prepare for climate change,
population growth, and the integration of cutting-edge technology for a 21st-century infrastructure.
3 Editorial
6 City Lights
From our correspondents, a series of vignettes on
newdevelopments in urban living, from Milan to
Mississauga.
34 Making a Difference
Exclusive Q&A with ICLEIs Gino Van Begin on the role
of local governments in sustainable urban
development.
39 Hard Hats
Fire safety, zero-carbon construction, and virtual
power plants: Siemens solutions for urban
infrastructure.
66 Maximum Mumbai
Several projects in the worlds fifth most populous
metropolis tackle mobility and public transportation
issues.
74 Street Patterns
A recent study fingerprinted 131 cities based on the
shapes of building blocks rather than their street grid.
75 Imprint
Cover: Sean Fennessy
Photos: Sean Fennessy, Agnes Thor, Atul Loke Illustration: Romain Trystram
30xxxData Centers
City Lights
City Lights
Cities are more than the sum of their citizens. Nevertheless, as more and more
people move to the urban centers, city life is determined by the individual experience
as much as by overarching developments. Here are a few personal perspectives and
observations highlighting urban trends.
Thoughts of Italy bring to mind thoughts of food. This association will be stronger than ever when Milan hosts Expo 2015,
the worlds fair focusing on global nutrition. Up to 20 million
visitors will explore the theme of Feeding the planet, energy
for life between May 1 and October 31, 2015, roaming across
200 hectares of dedicated fairgrounds and seeing the exhibits of 144 countries. Pavilions will interpret the theme through
traditional cultural values and the use of new technologies.
Enel is one of Expos official global partners, contributing
smart energy solutions to the world event. As Enels official
Photo: Siemens AG
Abha Joshi-Ghani
Roman Elsener, journalist in New York
City Lights
City Lights
Hazel McCallion
13 years.
Urban areas share
of global energy use:
6776%
7176%
8% (2012)
2.5%
80%
China:
86%
economy, the focus is on greater efficiency for the road networks to keep up with
urban expansion. Investments made
today will determine the development of
any city tomorrow, especially when it
has to cope with population growth and
severe weather events, Michael Stevns,
Siemens project leader of the study, said
in HCMC.
160 million
Contribution of steel and cement to global
carbon emissions in 2006:
nearly
Photo: Siemens AG
USA:
69%
3 billion
Source: Pachauri et al., 2012; IEA, 2012
Most Livable
City
Melbourne
Melbourne
But what was not generally appreciated at the time was that leading up
to that awful day, parts of Victoria experienced up to ten consecutive days
above 40degrees. Thetemperature in
Melbourne on Black Saturday reached
46degrees. The city very nearly
came to a halt. Telecommunications,
public transport, lifts in buildings,
and many services failed or were
affected.
Those temperatures came at the
end of a ten-year drought, when water was rationed and its vital importance was high in everyones mind.
All Australians remember Black
Saturdays toll, but what Doyle and
the citys administrators, led by chief
executive Kathy Alexander, knew and
what galvanized them into action was
that in Melbourne during that week,
375people died of heat-related stress,
respiratory failure, and illness exacerbated by the high temperatures.
The aged and the ill were particularly
vulnerable.
We had to confront the eventuality that this would happen again,
that we would be getting longer and
hotter summers and drought periods, Doyle notes. The city had
to be cooled, but how to do it without upsetting the program for energy conservation? Thermal mapping showed that on a very hot day,
the outer suburbs of metropolitan
Melbourne were 4 to 5 degrees cooler than the inner city, where the
black asphalt and the concentration
of big buildings created a heat island effect, Doyle explains.
A Protective Canopy
Research offered a number of courses of action. We chose a very simple
one. We decided to plant more trees.
The drought had already affected
our canopy. We were losing trees;
were in danger of losing the great
elms and plane trees that are a hallmark of Melbourne. So our arborists designed an urban forest strategy that had us planting 3,000 trees a
year. We are on target to plant 30,000
trees, increasing the tree canopy in
the city from 20 percent to 40 percent.
That should cool the city center by
about 4 degrees in summer, making
Robert Doyle
Born in Melbourne, age 61
Lord Mayor of Melbourne since
December 2008
Member of Victoria State
Parliament for 14 years
Opposition leader for four
years
Shadow Minister for Health
for three years
Parliamentary Secretary for
Health for three years
Principal at The Nous Group,
management consultancy
based in Melbourne; Chairman
of Melbourne Health, which
runs the Royal Melbourne
Hospital; and other charitable, academic, and economic
appointments.
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne City
Metropolitan Melbourne includes 30 suburban cities and shires
Area: 10,000 square kilometers
Aggregate population: 4.5 million
Population increase: +90,000 per year
Central Melbourne: laid out along the Hoddle Grid or Golden
Mile devised in 1837 by surveyor Robert Hoddle
Area: 36 square kilometers
Population: 95,000
Newly developed neighborhoods: Flemington, Kensington,
Southbank, Docklands
An increased tree
canopywithin Melbourne
helps to lower summer
temperatures in the city by
around 4 degrees.
Raising Livability
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Melbourne
Siemens in Australia
Siemens Australia established its headquarters in
Melbourne in 1872.
First entered Australia to work on the Darwin-Adelaide
Overland Telegraph line regarded as one of the great
19th-century engineering feats and a milestone in
Australian history.
Siemens is installing building management systems
at the high-tech Melbourne Museum, in the busy city
campus buildings of RMIT University, and in iconic
Melbourne Cricket Ground to make it one of the most
sustainable arenas in the world.
A large number of Melbourne trams and trains are
Siemens-made.
More than 20 percent of Australias energy is supplied
through Siemens technology.
Contributes cutting-edge technology for a wide variety
of industries, including food and beverage, oil and gas,
water, and mining.
A city for people: Thanks to an extensive network of cycle paths, 15 percent
of workers in Melbourne now bike to work.
has no private vehicles. Its for public transport, bicycles, and pedestrians. Over the past 30 years, we have
seen a very carefully planned and designed reinvigoration of the center
of the city, and it has worked remarkably well.
Smart Growth
The real challenge, he believes, will
be the next 15 to 20 years. Growth is
nothing to fear as long as it is smart
growth. It is dumb growth you have
to fear, such as building whole suburbs without the infrastructure to
support them, a long way from employment. He speaks of Point Cook,
a fast-growing area with a lovely harbor 27 kilometers west of metropolitan Melbourne. The Grattan
Institute [a Melbourne economic
think-tank] recently discovered that
Point Cook has more induced births
than anywhere else in Australia,
Doyle explains. Why? Because there
is no infrastructure or public transport, and it can take more than an
hour to get to a hospital. So doctors
are making choices with expectant
mothers to induce them as a safety
measure. Thats dumb growth.
Green Strategies
Another member of the Melbourne
City Council passionate in his pursuit of environmental conservation,
urban sustainability, and resilience
is Arron Wood, chairman of the citys
environmental committee and deputy chairman of its economic development committee.
Just about anywhere you look on
any environmental issue, whether
its water, waste, biodiversity, energy, climate, or adaptation we have a
strategy for it, he says. For example,
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Melbourne
then the urban forest strategy, focused on cooling the city by planting a total of 30,000 trees. Over
the past four years, we have planted 12,000trees in the city. Were on
target.
The open spaces the city was creating
allowed it to hold events for residents
and visitors, he says: The urban forest is the glue that sticks everything
together and in the summer, it cools
the city by as much as 4degrees.
Melbourne recently embarked on the
next step of establishing an urban
ecology strategy, Wood notes: We
have the open spaces, we have the
trees, so what do we put among
them? Were looking at promoting
rooftop gardens in the city. We call
the project Growing Green. We did
the research with the University of
Melbourne and distributed that
knowledge to builders and developers. Now were seeing more green
roofs pop up.
the equipment and systems that ensure viability of the energy needs for
the MCGs huge lighting towers, as
well as the public amenities sports
fans like to eat: Last year, kiosks at
the MCG served 600,000 bags of hot
chips, 350,000 meat pies, 95,000 jam
doughnuts, 65,000 hamburgers, and
40,000 pizzas. Siemens is also installing new high-efficiency chillers, and upgrading 12,000 lights as
well as optimizing water supply for
the cricket ground. The upgrades will
pay for themselves in seven years
and the result will see utility costs
cut by 20percent, water use cut by
5percent, and CO2-equivalent carbon
emissions cut by 19 percent.
And while we are recording awards:
Melbourne has twice been judged
Most Admired Knowledge City.
Judges assess nominees on knowledge-based development strategies and capabilities; brand and
reputation; social cohesion; regional, national, and international relations; environmental policies;
Grid Control
Grid Control
Keeping
the Lights
On
Grid Control
Grid Control
Terry Boston, President and
CEO of PJM Interconnection.
A Forward-Looking Leader
Boston began his career in 1972 as a
power supply engineer for the largest US public power provider, the
Tennessee Valley Authority. He directed divisions in transmission and
power operations, pricing, contracts,
and electric system reliability before
being named president and CEO of
PJM Interconnection in 2008.
My car, an electric Chevrolet
Volt, has more smarts in terms of
computational ability than the first
computer that I used to control a
20,000-megawatt power system, he
says with a smile. The potential of
technology to make the delivery of
electricity more efficient and reliable
has long fascinated Boston, and he
has been an enthusiastic early adopter of energy-saving technologies in
his personal and professional life.
In 1988, he and his wife built a home
using passive solar design techniques to maximize energy efficiency. One of the homes two sunrooms
has 3.6 tonnes of granite that stores
solar heat, and deciduous trees outside the rooms provide shade in the
summer, but allow sunlight to penetrate in the winter. In addition, the
Terry Boston
President and CEO, PJM
Interconnection since 2008
President, Association
of Edison Illuminating
Companies, Inc.
Immediate past president
of GO 15, the association of
the worlds largest power
grid operators
Elected to the National
Academy of Engineering
Past chair of the North
American Transmission
Forum
interior walls of the home are insulated so that the couple can heat the
full house when family and guests
are visiting or downsize to a smaller
footprint if they are alone.
At PJM, Boston has his eye toward the
future energy needs of the vast region his company serves. PJM uses a
15-year planning horizon to forecast
energy flows over specific areas of
the grid and takes into account factors such as economic conditions and
public policies, particularly those related to renewable energy mandates
and environmental regulations.
Boston emphasizes that the planning process is data-driven, transparent, and collaborative. States can
request increases in transfer capabilities to support their public policy or
economic development objectives,
for example, and agree to transmission tariffs that fund those improvements. In 2011, the federal government issued an order that, among
other changes, opened the development of new regional transmission
projects to competition, which Boston
says will spur innovation and new solutions to energy challenges.
A Balancing Act
Operating the electric grid involves
balancing three basic elements
generation, transmission, and demand. PJM system operators keep
supply and demand in balance by adjusting the production of generating plants to accommodate changes
in demand, thus ensuring that transmission lines and facilities are not
overloaded.
PJMs Advanced Control Center
(AC2) is as impressive as the region
it serves. Each underground facility
is two floors deep with screens that
reach from a few feet above the floor
to the ceiling and keep track of generating stations, substations, transmission lines, and the other equipment that make up the power grid.
One map shows the total energy that
is flowing within the PJM network
and across its borders, while o
thers
show energy from specific sources
such as wind, nuclear, and coal as
well as weather forecasts and live
camera feeds.
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PJM in Numbers
Regional transmission organization for 391,742-km2
area(allor parts of 13 states and Washington, D.C.)
S
erves a population of 61 million
1 83,604 MW generating capacity
P
eak demand: 165,492 MW
A
nnual energy delivery: 794 million MWh
O
ver 100,000 km of transmission lines
2
014 billings: about US$50 billion
Grid Control
Grid Control
AC
With the
pectrum
S
Power Energy Management
System (EMS) a swellas Siemens
has
aintained the security and stability of the electric grid through
m
record high temperatures, near-record cold, straight-line winds
ofup to 160 kilometers per hour, and a massive hurricane.
2
Photo: PJM
The amount of data that is available to the operators can seem overwhelming, but PJM has implemented
intelligent event processing that suggests solutions to disruptions of the
power grid based on operator experience. The system is particularly beneficial for prioritizing actions during
severe weather events, when literally
thousands of disruptions can occur
simultaneously. Its almost like artificial intelligence, Boston says, but
you start with real intelligence.
The AC2 has been tested by several extreme weather events, including Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The
massive storm brought flooding
along the coast, 80-mile-per-hour
(129-kilometer-per-hour) winds, and
ice and blizzard conditions in the
mountains. Local distribution elements were severely damaged by the
storm 142 transmission lines and
substations were knocked out of service but the bulk electric system
remained stable.
Boston notes that the same economy
of scale that in 1927 led two utilities
in the states of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey to form the worlds first power
pool helped PJM mitigate the impacts
of Hurricane Sandy. Well before the
storm hit, PJM worked with its members to schedule additional generation to compensate for plants that the
hurricane had the potential to force
Vienna:
A Smart City
Vienna
Vienna
The Wittgenstein
House, built in 1928,
is now the home of
the Bulgarian
Cultural Institute.
A Center of Modernism
The city has brought forth more than
its share of unconventional geniuses in the arts, sciences, and philosophy. Especially in the half-century between the late 19th century and the
outbreak of the Second World War,
Vienna was the center of modernism
and a wellspring of original thinking in music, painting, and literature;
Sigmund Freud discovered psychology, while one of the 20th centurys
most influential philosophers, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, explored the logic of
language.
Many of these avant-garde thinkers
also left their mark on the face of modern Vienna. The artists of the Vienna
Secession shattered the boundaries of
aesthetics and style imposed by a stif
ling historicism; the philosophers father Karl Wittgenstein, a steel magnate and patron of the arts, financed
their architectural manifesto, the art
nouveau Secession Building (1897),
while the sparse Wittgenstein House
(1928) largely designed by his son
Ludwig reflects the parsimonious arguments of the Cambridge philosopher. The Looshaus (1910) opposite the
Hofburg (Imperial Palace), once described as a monstrosity and the
house with no eyebrows because the
windows lacked roofings, is today considered an icon of modernist architecture Emperor Franz Joseph I of
Austria allegedly ordered the windows
facing the abominable Looshaus to
be boarded up and refused to leave
the palace at the gate opposite its location on St. Michaels square.
Vienna
this p
lanet,and causes 60 percent
of all haulage on our roads. And the
global c onstruction industry is also
disproportionately responsible for
energy consumption and CO2 emissions worldwide. On the other hand,
ifmore timber was used in construction, that would create an incentive
for cultivating large forests, which in
turn would stave off soil erosion, foster biodiversity, and enhance the quality of life of humans and wildlife alike.
Wiener N
etze, the Vienna Business
Agency, and the development company Wien 3420.
Ideally, intelligent buildings should
be able to generate a profit through
the energy distribution system and
participate in the power market, says
Forthuber. Among the participants of
what he calls the living lab will be a
school and kindergarten sporting an
photovoltaic (PV) array with storage
capacity; a student dorm with a different configuration of PV and a battery; and a residential building with
220 apartments, each of which has its
own configuration. Once the buildings
have been completed in the summer
of 2015, sensors installed in distribution transformers will collect statistics on power, voltage, and other metrics, while the behavior of the smart
building and its interaction with the
grid will be monitored in terms of
temperature, humidity, hot water consumption, lighting, etc. The data will
LCT ONE
The Life Cycle concept, introduced by Rhomberg Group subsidiary CREE, is a model
for the planning, building, operating, and dismantling of modular building systems
that use sustainable materials and efficient construction techniques. The LCT ONE
in Dornbirn, Austria was built around a hybrid wood construction. It is 27 meters
and eight floors high, and was set up in just eight days by five builders. Compact,
organic, and composed of prefabricated segments, LCT ONE is a proof of concept
for a flexible platform that can be exported worldwide and adapted to local conditions. Both the modular elements and the building process itself are imbued with
intelligence, says Hubert Rhomberg, director of the Rhomberg Holding. He hopes
that the Life Cycle approach to construction will be taken up by innovators around
the globe. Using locally sourced wood instead of steel and concrete is a contribution
to climate protection. Or as Rhomberg puts it: We build CO2 storage devices and
well throw in a new office for free!
Vienna
Vienna
Consolidating Intelligence
Vienna may be far away, but Rhom
bergs thoughts turn again to Aspern.
As a test bed for intelligent technology, the new city quarter would be
the ideal showcase for the Life Cycle
Tower concept. His dream is to build
a larger version of the LCT ONE, nearly quadruple its size, that would
Both the
LCTONEs
elements and
thebuilding
process itself
areimbued
with intelligence.
Hubert Rhomberg, Director, Rhomberg Holding
Hubert Rhomberg, Director of the Rhomberg Holding: When a stranger asks me about my
profession, I tell them I work in carbon storage technology.
take into a
ccount the latest cuttingedge solutions for mobility, efficiency, smart grids, building technology,
and control systems. A 100-metertall lighthouse project now that
would really get peoples attention,
he laughs. Vienna has always been
open to new ideas and lateral thinking. And the ambitious plans for
Aspern will substantiate its claim to
be a smart city.
Back at his office in the capital, Gerald
Forthuber has a similar vision of integrated solutions that could emerge
from the work of the ASCR group.
For over a year, mixed project teams
have been setting out the research
parameters for smart grid, smart
ICLEI
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Supporting local
governments:
Secretary General
Gino Van Begin
outside the ICLEI
headquarters in
Bonn, Germany.
ICLEI
ICLEI
ICLEI and S
iemens: Partners for Sustainable Mobility
Many cities pursue policies aimed at shaping urban environments with good air quality and an enhanced quality of life.
With the number of commuters set to rise by 40 percent by
2030, sustainable mobility is a means of meeting these policy
objectives, and as such forms the focus for a new partnership
between ICLEI and Siemens. The partnership combines
technical and policy expertise to support this move toward
sustainable urban living.
Pioneer cities such as Copenhagen and Singapore are taking
the lead in implementing sustainable mobility in their cities.
Hard Hats
the creative part anymore. The innovation is in taking it one step further,
as Copenhagen did, and working with
employers to change behavior. Ive
also seen great ideas in urban agriculture that cut down on food transportation, such as seafood farming
inlarge vertical basins in a building.
G. Van Begin: Definitely. For mobility, one good idea Ive seen is to
use cable cars as mass transit for
informal settlements. In Bogot,
Colombia, for instance, people live
in the hills, and these people need to
get to the city. In Copenhagen, one
out of two commuters cycles to work.
Since the cycling paths are congested, Copenhagen is trying to get employers to allow people to work at different times and to provide showers
at work. To build a cycling path is not
Siemens at Work
Narvik
page 44
Hamburg
page 41
Eisenhttenstadt
Dsseldorf
page 46
page 43
Vienna
page 40, 44
San
Francisco Jacksonville
page 45
page 41
Hong Kong
page 47
Kuwait City
page 42
About ICLEI
Founded in 1990 at summit of
200local governments from
43countries
Worlds leading network of over
1,000 cities and towns committed
to building a sustainable future
Helps to make cities sustainable,
low-carbon, resilient, and livable
Focus on the green economy and
smart infrastructure
Next World Congress in Seoul
from 8 to 12 April 2015 for mayors,
local governments, NGOs, and
others
Buenos
Aires
Illustration: Kelli Anderson
Small Pacific
islands and
low-lying
countries like
Bangladesh
will be among
the first
affected by
rising global
temperatures.
Hard Hats
page 43
Hard Hats
Hard Hats
Facts: 8-year 140.5 million asset-based Senior Term Loan Financing | Up to 50 Vectron locomotives | Max. output rating 6,400 kWh | Top speed 200 km/h
Facts: Order volume US$648 million | 175 light rail cars | Option for 85 additional cars |
Currently 700,000 passengers on weekdays
comfortable with the underlying asset values and challenges of the entire business model. This is where
Siemens in-house financial expertise came into play. The substantial
order was made possible through an
eight-year asset-based Senior Term
Loan Financing over 140.5 million
set up by SBA and based on dedicated SFS expertise of managing and
evaluating rolling stock assets. The
loan is mutually provided by SBA and
DVB Bank SE. But there is additional
substantial backing to set ELL on the
right track: The equity sponsor is
global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which provides resources from its established infrastructure
funds together with ELL management to finance all up-front and
start-up costs, as well as an agreed
percentage of all equipment costs including spare parts and initial funding of reserve accounts.
The versatile Vectron locomotives are particularly well suited to the European market and
are proving to be very p
opular
with our lessees.
Photos: Siemens AG
Illustration: Siemens AG
Hard Hats
Hard Hats
Facts: Order volume of 32.9 million | 340,000 passengers/day on Line C | Trainguard MT train control system
meters high
transmission will make use of the Siemens Airlink solution. Sicas electronic interlockings are being installed for
safe setting of the train routes. The signaling technology
will be directed and monitored via the operations control
center in Constitucin, the southern terminus station of
Line C.
on 62 office floors
Photo: SOM
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Hard Hats
Hard Hats
In 2009, Viennese tram operator Wiener Linien started a research project together with its partners Rail Tec Arsenal,
SCHIG mbh, Siemens, Technical University Vienna, and
Vossloh Kiepe, and supported by the Austrian Research
Foundations Climate and Energy Fund to find out how
smart technology could reduce energy consumption for
heating, cooling, and air-conditioning in its tramways.
The first phase of this project involved collecting data from
one of the conventional Siemens ultralow floor (ULF)
trams, which have been in service for Wiener Linien since
1998, in a climatic wind tunnel as well as in regular line service. Subsequently, a custom-made ULF test tram the
EcoTram was fitted with a wide range of energy-saving
features such as a cooling and heating system with predictive control, CO2 sensors tracking how many passengers
are on board to ensure an optimal supply of fresh air, a
multistage cooling system, and special sunlight-inhibiting
window foils. The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system (HVAC) with a heat pump makes use of the ambient temperature for energy-efficient heating and cooling the first time this technology has been installed in a
tram.
After further testing in the climatic wind tunnel, the
EcoTram was deployed in passenger service on Line 62,
which connects the world-famous Opera with Lainz, in the
west of Vienna. Gnter Steinbauer, General Manager of
Wiener Linien, is enthusiastic about the successful completion of the research project: In the past five years, weve
been able to gain valuable insights into the energy-saving
potential of trams, and also to test new technologies in regular line service.
The result: During the ten-month test period, the EcoTram
saved more than 13 percent up to 4,200 kilowatt-hours of
energy on heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning,
compared to the data initially collected from the conventional tram. This roughly equals the energy consumed annually by an average household in Austria. In the future,
Wiener Linien is looking to capitalize on the scientifically
proven energy-saving potential.
The eMeter EnergyIP MDMS allows utility JEA to gain maximum benefit
from its two-way meters.
LKAB contracted S
iemens to
equip the transshipment
railroad station in Narvik
with state-of-the-art signaling and instrumentation and
control technology. The
automation of shunting processes and the optimization
of loading and unloading
processes at Narvik station
constitute an important
milestone in LKABs modernization road map to expand
annual production to 35 million tonnes of ore.
Siemens is supplying the
MK2 interlocking, the Rail
9000 operations control
system, type ACM 200 axle
counting systems, a container
for the indoor systems, a diesel emergency power unit,
shunting signals, and derailers. Due to the arctic weather
in the region, installation of
the equipment will take
place in 2015 as soon as outside conditions permit in
the short summer period
when temperatures might
rise to daytime average temperatures of 18 degrees.
Photo: Siemens AG
Were going to
take all these
systems to the
next level.
Brian Novak
JEA Program Manager for Advanced
Metering Systems
Hard Hats
Hard Hats
The new building in Kowloon Bay not only has zero net energy consumption, but actually feeds green energy into the grid.
With the cloud-based DEMS system, smaller power plants can be combined into a single virtual
entity, achieving the critical mass required to take part in the energy market.
Facts: 1,800 hardware points | 3,200 software points | 2,800 sensor points | 160 kWp photovoltaic system
Managing the
Electronic
Brain
Text: Erika Claessens
T
Illustration: Siemens AG
Big data will be the transformational force for the 21st century, with smart
data centers allowing companies to focus solely on their core business.
urbanDNA spoke to Alexandre Gera, Data Center Manager for Cofely
Services in Belgium and its Agility Data Center, which features Datacenter
Clarity LC, Siemens data center infrastructure management (DCIM)
software tool with 3D visualization. It offers a virtual tour through the data
center infrastructure while managing and monitoring from a distance.
agile, and green data center. The company delivers data center services that
bring value both for in-house corporate clients and for customers with
anindependent ICT infrastructure.
Siemens designed thesolution and architecture of the Datacenter Clarity
LC platform with 3D visualization,
which offers a virtual tour through
the building while remotely managing
and monitoring the storage devices.
Alexandre Gera envisages the global
high-speed deployment of powerful
Data Centers
Datacenter Clarity LC is a
Siemens DCIM software platform created and designed for
the data center market. It is a
trademark of Maya Heat Transfer
Technology (HTT), a partner to
Siemens PLM. Datacenter Clarity
LC links facility management
with IT management and combines information from subsystems. These include energy
management, building management, fire safety, monitoring
of infrastructure, server racks,
zones and floors, data storage
systems, as well as switches
and routers. Datacenter Clarity
LC optimizes energy consumption, thereby facilitating the
cost-efficient operation of data
centers. The unique flexible 3D
visualization adds transparency
to the data center infrastructure,
leading to accessible reporting,
optimized operations, smarter
decisions, higher flexibility, and
future-proof architecture.
3D Visualization of Data
This film illustrateshow Clarity
LC DCIM supports
data center
management.
u siemens.com/datacenters
Alexandre Gera
the rollout of the project. It also allowed us to insert more features like
a ticketing module or a maintenance
tool at any time.
A DCIM Platform
On the other hand, this meant that
one of the basic requirements for
Cofelys Agility Data Center was a
data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform that would
provide a comprehensive overview
of all assets. We definitely needed
a software tool that could monitor,
manage, and measure our data center performance, usage, and energy
consumption in relation to our building management system (BMS). As
such, the platform also had to be configured for power usage effectiveness
(PUE) as well as water and carbon usage effectiveness (WUE and CUE). By
delivering a guaranteed level of efficiency, it qualified as a green data
center, the manager points out.
We did not plan on a standard platform, but we really needed a very
flexible and high-performance DCIM
that could handle a lot of features
inorder to tour through the data
storage. It had to provide an overview of all assets, like usage parameters, capacity numbers, and energy consumption, Gera continues.
After a tendering process, the contract was awarded to Siemens. They
offered us the Datacenter Clarity
LC software tool with a complete
package of features, which still could
be evaluated and modified during
Photo: Cofely
Clarity LC DCIM
Data Centers
Visualization Platform
The Datacenter Clarity LC of our
Agility Data Center is the key to any
facility information, whether it concerns our own data or that of our clients, says Gera. It offers all information and knowledge related to the
IT assets and the technical infrastructure and can be tracked daily. Clients
can rely on a high-end environment
for their IT infrastructure, and the
overall view is managed and monitored with only one dedicated software tool. Therefore, the DCIM is connected with other software and with
our building management system.
The BMS connection is configured
specifically for the Cofely building
and integrated into the Datacenter
Clarity LC software platform. Its a
pioneering venture: We are the first
in Europe to offer a DCIM platform
with 3D visualization. This was an
additional component in our choice
of partner. The 3D visualization is
unique and part of the full turnkey
installation provided. Its an innovative system.
Green Footprint
Being responsible for about 2 percent
of global greenhouse gas emissions,
data center operators continuously
search for solutions to reduce energy
consumption and implement innovative equipment and tools to reduce
costs and the carbon footprint. The
Agility Data Center exemplifies the
movement toward green computing
Cities
At the 2014 City Climate Leadership Awards (CCLA) in New York City, hosted
by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Siemens, eleven cities were
honored for their climate actions and their initiatives to promote urban
sustainability, to improve waste management, and to raise the air quality.
Among the winners were Seoul, Barcelona, Portland, and Buenos Aires.
urbanDNA met with representatives of those cities to discuss their exemplary
projects and i nitiatives, their fight against climate change, and their visions
for the future.
Seoul:
inSeoul while producing more renewable energy. And the city leader
told urbanDNA that he wants to win
the hearts and minds of the citizens
for green projects in the spirit of his
organizations motto: Lets make
the world a better place with people
power.
Without the support of our citizens,
it would be impossible to reach our
goals, Park says. Of course, we had
a vision and guidelines, but there
is the push on the part of the citizens themselves to have a role in implementing such ideas with inspired
participation. Because in Seoul,
citizens consume more energy than
Barcelona:
With mountains
and the ocean,
Portland has the
best of all worlds
geographically.
But most of all, we
have a progressive
ethic, where everybody is comfortable with the idea
of always trying
something new.
Josh Alpert, Director of Strategic Initiatives,
City of Portland
Portland:
Buenos Aires:
Welcome to Buenos
Aires, the green
city, where we have
managed to reduce
by 46percent the
amount of garbage
were sending to
our landfills!
Friday
10.06 a.m.
Rapid Response
New service concepts allow drastic shortening of response times
between error diagnosis and repair.
Friday
10.05 a.m.
Diagnosis:
Erlangen Support Center
Error message received at
Support Center. In a flash,
humans and machines are
analyzing the source of
the fault and identifying
the required spare parts.
Friday
1.07 p.m.
Error message:
Barcelona Sants
railwaystation
Train arrives at the station.
Doors open. Diagnostic
system registers that the
current flow to door relay 5 is too high. Just below
the limit.
Building Know-How
The knowledge base is built up and shared via a system of S
iemens Mobility Academies. Beyond Munichs
Intelligent Traffic Systems Academy, rail systems are
served by the Rolling Stock Academy in Erlangen and the
Rail Automation Academy in Brunswick. Combined, these
centers delivered almost 13,000 student-days of teaching last year attended by both S
iemens and client staff,
ranging from Europe to Asia and America.
The syllabus draws on cutting-edge, cost-effective technologies, a transition sometimes described as from
screwdriver to keyboard. Key aspects include rapid
transfer of data such as between the traffic light bulb
and Munich and remote access. A Siemens system
means that authorized city employees could also access
the traffic lights via a smartphone, remedying malfunctions or perhaps changing light sequencing to deal with
amajor event. But the emphasis is also always on the
practical experience of issues.
Near Dsseldorf at Wegberg-Wildenrath, in a clearing beyond the north German coniferous forest, is another
Siemens facility, where it is not people who are tested,
but trains. At this Test and Validation Center, on an old
air force base, there are 32 kilometers of track to replicate
both normal and extreme conditions in national rail networks. More than 200 specialists in three shifts work in
what Head Robert Grootings describes as the worlds
largest and most modern certification facility for rolling
stock. They test the speed, breaking, curving, gradeclimbing, leakage, and noise performance of trains of all
manufacturers for operators from the UK to Vietnam.
As an indication of the uniqueness of Wegberg-Wildenrath,
when the facility held an open house day two years ago,
33,000 visitors took advantage of the chance to see it. As
with the academies, drivers as well as operational and
maintenance personnel also come here for courses prior to starting work on the trains that are being tested, repaired, and overhauled.
Dispatch:
WDC Neu-Isenburg
Spare part package is
ready on the loading
ramp. Express agent picks
up shipment. Shipment
catches 2.55 p.m. flight to
Madrid on time.
Friday
1.25 p.m.
Friday
5.40 p.m.
Delivery:
Madrid Barajas airport
Airplane lands. Express agent is
ready and picks up spare part.
Friday
1.48 p.m.
Express logistics:
WDC Neu-Isenburg
Order arrives at the World
Distribution Center (WDC).
Forklift heads for high-bay
storage space 21/8. Team
packs spare part; inserts
delivery note and prepared
documents.
Friday
7.53 p.m.
A Virtuous Circle
Maintenance:
La Sagra depot
Train arrives at depot. Express
agent arrives with spare part at
the same time. Technician accepts delivery of the parcel.
Maintenance work begins.
A Common Platform
The maintenance and service concepts described above
all fit together like links in a chain along the whole life
of any S
iemens mobility product. The importance of uniform IT infrastructure and of centralized control of service provision in a remote location have led to the overall
descriptive term: common Remote Service Platform (cRSP).
With the cRSP, service-related data is captured and used
ever more intelligently. The driving spirit is proaction
rather than reaction. The results are lower maintenance
costs and reduced downtime. Almost anyone moving in
an urban setting will benefit, even if they never appreciate what is being done. A safety net has been sewn to ensure that any blockages to the safe and free flow of transport are either quickly removed or, increasingly, never
happen at all. Good physicians have long known how prevention is preferable to cure. The best engineers are now
able wholeheartedly to agree. p
Daniel Whitaker is a London-based freelance journalist who has followed the energy and environmental sectors for many years. His work
has appeared in the Financial Times and The Economist magazine.
Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai
S
Mumbai
20,748,395
GDP:
US$208 billion
Mumbai: Transforming Mumbai into
a World-Class City, published in
September 2003, noted: The quality
of life in Mumbai has also worsened
and the decline is quite steep. Slums
have proliferated and congestion, pollution and water problems have skyrocketed. [] The situation is likely to
worsen over the next decade with an
expected population increase of over
two million.
Clearly, the megalopolis needed better infrastructure to cope with the rising population. The floods of July26,
2005 and the terrorist attacks in
November 2008 reiterated the mess
the city was in. But all thats changed
with the commissioning of new projects. Our focus is east-west connectivity. We want to reduce the number
of private vehicles on the roads by enhancing public transportation, says
Dilip Kawathkar, Deputy Metropolitan Commissioner and Joint Project
Director (PR) at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA; a government body responsible for balanced development).
This development authority formulated the Mumbai Urban Transport
Project (MUTP) to improve the traffic and transport situation in the
MMR (with assistance from the World
Bank). The first phase of the project
began in 2007 and is said to be complete. MUTP Phase II is being implemented, and MUTP Phase III has been
approved.
Area:
4,355km
US$2,000
The biggest space constraint was perhaps faced by the Chhatrapati Shivaji
International Airport, which required
modernization. CSIA has been referred
to as the most difficult airport to develop, being located in a confined area
with no space to expand. Its area per
passenger is one of the smallest in the
world, yet it manages about 19 percent
of the countrys air passenger traffic
and about 29 percent of the countrys
air cargo traffic.
The critical task was to develop a stateof-the-art terminal literally on top of
the existing airport and in parallel,
rebuild the airports unique intersecting runways, with minimal inconvenience for passengers or flight interruptions. Terminal 2, i naugurated
in January 2014, is c onsidered one of
the most iconic developments in recent times. The four-level international terminal, with anarea of more than
439,000 square meters, will ultimately
accommodate 40 million passengers
per year.
Mumbai
Taking a selfie
near the BandraWorli Sea Link.
The Western Express Highway to the suburbs is packed during peak hours.
Public transportation attracts economic activity and boosts productivity by improving connectivity
and r educing time lost to travel.
Undoubtedly, better transport improves quality of life, the Credo
report adds.
The Credo study The Mobility
Opportunity investigates ways
of boosting economic growth
by improving public transport.
At the same time, MMRDAs new projects like the Metro, the Monorail,
and various road projects are enhancing public transportation. These
projects are quite successful. For
Mumbai
5
3
6
1
1 B
andra-Worli Sea Link: This INR16 billion (US$260 million)
project has reduced travel time between Bandra and Worli
during peak hours from 6090 minutes to 2030 minutes.
2 E
astern Freeway: Connects P DMello Road in South Mumbai to the Eastern Express Highway at Ghatkopar. Length:
16.8 km; cost: INR14.4 billion (US$230 million). Opened to
public in June 2013.
3 Metro Rail Project: The first, 11.4-km long, 12-station Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro corridor was commissioned
in June 2014 as an east-west commuter link. Travel time
from Versova to Ghatkopar cut from 90 to 20 minutes.
4 Monorail Project: A feeder to high-capacity Mass Rapid
Transit Systems like suburban and metro services. MMRDA
implemented the first Monorail (from Chembur to Wadala)
in February 2014 (8.93 km distance).
5 J ogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road and the 6 Santa CruzChembur Link Road have improved connectivity between