Innovation: ENEA among leading members in White House Smart Cities initiative

ENEA is among the members involved in the White House Smart Cities Initiatives, the 80 million dollar investment just launched by the White House. The Agency for new Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development was called by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), coordinator of the initiative, to be part of a scientific coalition formed by seven institutions of excellence dedicated to developing an Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Cities Framework by summer 2017.

The aim is identifying pivotal points of interoperability through a technical working group studying real-world smart cities applications. In addition to the NIST and ENEA, coalition members include  the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the US Green Building Council (USBCG), the European Telecommunication Standards (ETSI), the FIWARE Platform of the European Union, the Republic of Korea’s  Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning.

ENEA was given the task of identifying Smart City architectures and standards used in Italy and Europe to integrate various functions such as the management of buildings, public lighting and traffic, critical urban infrastructures, the interaction with citizens.  In particular, researchers at the ENEA Smart Energy Division  will work at  identifying standard modes of  information exchange among urban services.

At national level ENEA has already developed several smart city projects including the Public Energy Living Lab (PELL), City 2.0, Brescia Smart Living, Smart Basilicata, RoMA and the “smart ring” in L’Aquila, a pilot project of urban development based on a ring road with smart lighting installations, sustainable mobility, energy management of buildings and environmental monitoring.

For more information please contact:

Mauro Annunziato, Smart Energy Division, ENEA Casaccia Research center, mauro.annunziato@enea.it