1) Amsterdam Smart City is a public-private partnership initiated in 2009 to transform the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region into a smart city with over 100 partners from different sectors. 2) Key focus areas include smart mobility (dynamic traffic control, smart parking, electric vehicles), smart energy (smart grids, cooling and heating districts, renewable energy), connectivity, e-health, open data, and urban living labs. 3) Three urban living labs - IJburg, Zuidoost, and Nieuw-West - serve as testbeds for smart city projects and citizen engagement across themes like mobility, energy, healthcare, and education.

1. Angelique Meyer
International liaison Amsterdam Smart City
16th December 2014

2. As our planet becomes more urban
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3. Amsterdam; we need to look different at the city
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4. AMSTERDAM SMART CITY4
• Amsterdam Smart City: a public
private partnership
• Initiated in 2009 to transform the
Amsterdam Metropolitan Region
in a Smart City

5. Smart projects in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

6. Over 100 partners have an active role in pilots
Founding Partners
Project Partners
Strategic Partners
Network Partners

7. Amsterdam conditions for smart city development
Fastest consumer network in Europe
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Start-up accelerators
Incubators
Smart Grids
Amsterdam Open Data Program
Knowledge institutions

8. THEMES
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9. Mobility and the city
Dynamic traffic control
• Advanced system to manage and monitor traffic
• Open Data driven
• Smart parking
• Twice as many bikes as people
Joint ownership
• Several initiatives. Sharing is the new owning. You
are what you share! (Car2Go and WeGo)
Electric vehicles
• International frontrunner
• Infrastructure is key (dense, short distances and
densely populated make Netherlands perfect
testing location)
• There are over 1,000 public EV-charging points.
• Amsterdam: most electric cars per inhabitant
• Tesla, BYD Auto and BMW (i3)
• Ship to Grid project – 159 electricity points in
Amsterdam harbor

10. Energy and the city
Energy in Amsterdam
• Climate goals
• Several Smart Grid and Energy
Management pilots
Cooling and heating a district with water
• Business district Zuidas: cooled by lake,
heated by water from an energy plant
• Working on cooling Schiphol with water
Smart Grid: magnet for innovation
• Nieuw West: one of the most advanced
roll-outs in the world, self-healing.
• Further developed as one of Europe’s
flagship Smart Grid developments (City-
Zen), enabling people to generate their
own energy, store their energy and plug in
their vehicles to gain or give energy.

11. Vehicle2Grid
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12. Connectivity and the city
Connectivity in Amsterdam
• First connection to the internet in Europe
was made in Amsterdam 25 years ago
• Fastest broadband internet of Europe
• G4/LTE since 2012
• 95% of households are connected
• Largest internet hub in the world
Connectivity testbed /initiatives
• Smart schools
• One device (education)
• Remote healthcare
• Smart working centers
• Safety: smart lighting

13. Smart lighting
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14. (E-)Health and the city
Health living lab
• Involvement of patients in
development of products and services;
Health Lab
• Strategic location of benches in public
space keeps citizens active for a longer
period of time.
Connectivity
• Connectivity plays a key rol: several
pilots on Ijburg
• Increasing independence relies on
reliable infrastructure: IT, internet,
access to energy

15. Data and the city
Open / big data
• Important fuel for a smart city
• Amsterdam Open Data: programme to enclose
data including open data portal
• Amsterdam: 300 datasets are open
• Coming years: 1.200 datasets will follow
• www.amsterdamopendata.nl
Data Centres
• Popular location for new data centres in Europe
• Committed from business to green
• Agreement with city to save energy. Over the next
3 years; 68 miljoen kWh
• Usage of waste heat from datacentres
Smart Citizen Kit
• Citizens collect data. Citizen empowerment
• Network of sensors across town
• The kit measures the levels of air / noise pollution,
air humidity, shares the info and compares the
data to other areas of Amsterdam in real time.

16. Waste and the city
Afval Energie bedrijf – Waste Company
• Waste-fired power plant has an electrical
efficiency of 30%
• 8% higher than the average waste-to-
energy plant
• It produces sustainable energy because
48% of the waste consists of biomass
• AEB currently produces renewable
electricity for 320,000 households
Urban Mining
• Waste = gold
• Supplier of gold, iron, protein, sulphates
and other materials
• New technologies enable specialised
companies to separate the waste even
further than citizens do themselves and re-
use them or sell them
Biobased Economy

17. Urban living labs approach
• Connecting parties; building consortiums.
• Combining activities
• Gaining knowledge about residents and
users of neighborhoods.
• Identifying the needs and wishes of the
residents and users of neighborhoods.
• Energy potential analysis: technical,
demographic and urban planning insights
into the present and potential
• Energy consumption of neighborhoods.
• Knowledge exchange based on previous
pilot projects.

18. 3 areas; 3 urban living labs
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IJburg
Smart & Connected IJburg
Zuidoost
The City of tomorrow
Nieuw-West
Smart neighbourhood Nieuw West

19. Nieuw-West: The activities in
this area are dominated by the
"smart grid" and the
opportunities that this offers
the residents in the area such
as local generation, energy
use and electric transport.
Together with the resisents and users of the
neihgborhood we improve the quality of life !
Living lab Nieuw-West

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• Started in April
• 23 partners, 30 million
investment
• Citizen empowerment
• Project includes:
• Smart grids
• Solar energy & storage
• Renovation. 52.000 m²
• Grinder
• Serious Gaming
• Watercooling Schiphol

21. Energy in Nieuw West
Meeting place for residents
and project partners
Flexible Public Lighting Storage integrated PV
Vehicle to Grid
Adjustable
Rules & Regulation
Large scale Renovation
Use of local
(Open) Data
European Flagship
Smart Energy
living lab

22. Living lab Zuidoost
Improve the quality of life together with
local companies !
Zuidoost: is all about
cooperation between the
different organisations in this
area. Several measures are
being explored such as the
usage of waste heat from
data centres, energy
exchange between the
different organisations in the
area and smart light.

23. Energy cooperation
Joint purchasing and
exchange of energy
(large scale
consumers)
Waste heat from
data centers
Use of waste heat of
new data center in
the immediate
vicinity
Sun PV AMC
AMC hospital
develops a
viable business
case for 35000
m2 solar PV on
the roof
Amsterdam Arena
Ajax football stadium
Local Data Centers
Amsterdam AMC
Medical Centre
Urban Transformation

24. IJburg: Smart & Connected IJburg
works towards an accessible
IJburg. Accessibility via mobility, but
also in terms of connectivity. In this
area ASC focuses on various
themes concerning smart working,
mobility, healthcare and education.
Smart & Connected IJburg
Living lab IJburg

25. Last but not least: Citizen and users of the city
Citizen central
• Crucial position
• At the centre of all activities
• Gaining knowledge about residents and users
of neighbourhoods
• Multi stakeholder approach
• Looking at different ways to enhance citizen
involvement
• Accelerating citizen engagement
• Accelerating bottum-up initiatives
• What are their wishes and needs concerning
a smart neighbourhood?
• Social innovation

26. Amsterdam Smart City International
• European partner cities:
• Paris
• Grenoble
• Genova, Vienna, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Lyon
Worldwide:
• Brasil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and United States
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27. Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Lyon
Genoa
Vienna
Hamburg
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28. Smart data: Energy atlas
• New York / Hamburg • TU Delft • Amsterdam
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29. City of Amsterdam
Climate and Energy
maps.amsterdam.nl

30. Amsterdam Smart City 2015
• Themes:
• Smart Mobility
• Smart Energy
• Smart Health
Topics:
• Sharing Economy
• Disruptive technologies
• New business models
Events:
• Amsterdam Smart City event – 2-6 June 2015
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31. Keep in touch!