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Use Cases on BABLE are real-world reference projects sharing insights and learnings to show you what is already possible. Each Use Case contains a list of achieved benefits, driving factors, financial information, advices for replication and links to relevant Solutions and the implemented Products. There is also the opportunity to contact the BABLE users who participated in implementing and managing the Use Case.
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Mobility
Air
The municipality of Gladsaxe replaced the standard street lighting with red LED lights, more suited to the needs of the local bat population, creating a harmonious human-environmental interaction.
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Mobility
Air
Other
Tartu closed one of its main streets in the city centre for car traffic and opened it for its citizens for whole of July 2020 in order to introduce the concept of urban biodiversity and build understanding of human friendly livable city.
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Mobility
Air
Other
A desire to find a way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of urban deliveries was the inspiration behind the “Last Mile Delivery Challenge”. Launched in late 2018, the project is co-funded as part of t of the Small Business Innovation Research Programme.
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Energy
ICT
Air
Google's EIE is helping to fight climate change by providing cities with data and modelling capabilities to reduce emissions.
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Mobility
ICT
Air
Health
An EU funded ‘citizen science’ project that empowers citizens to take a leading role in measuring road traffic and air pollution in their neighbourhoods.
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Mobility
Air
Health
Other
“Air View Dublin”, an initiative that will see Google’s Street View car take to the streets of Dublin to measure air quality across the city. This initiative will inform smart transit programs with the goal of reducing emissions and increasing the use of cleaner modes of travel.
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Mobility
Air
Health
Reducing our reliance on private cars is an important step towards decarbonisation, improving mobility and reducing congestion. In 2020, Fingal County Council launched an innovative, new Public Mobility Hub, providing citizens with shared, sustainable and accessible public mobility options.
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Energy
ICT
Air
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council launched a pilot project, searching for the best way to capture energy-usage data. That data could then be used to drive changes in behaviour and policy.
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Energy
Mobility
Air
Creation of Kubernetes and open source based open data platform for city of Paderborn using FIWARE components and reference architecture.
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ICT
Air
Building
Data centres utilise a lot of energy for operations, especially for cooling. The open data sharing and harmonised data models will allow a competitive edge. Profirator has deployed the FIWARE based platform for Contrasec and Luolakallio and has maintained them for more than a year.
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Air
Health
A natural moss filter with smart IoT technology was implemented in Hampstead Hill School to improve the local air quality.
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Building
Air
Health
Urban natural filters have been implemented to improve the outdoor and indoor air quality in a co-working area in Berlin.
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Air
Health
Two Clean Air Zones were created on the Walter-Benjamin-Square in Berlin to improve its visitor's ambient conditions.
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Mobility
Air
Energy
In an effort to encourage a modal shift away from cars, the Royal Borough of Greenwich implemented a business model and service for e-cargo bikes, and introduced an e-bike sharing scheme.
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Air
Health
Putney High Street is relying on green technology to improve the cycling and walking conditions of their residents.
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Mobility
Air
There are three Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) of which the city centre is of most concern due to a higher number of pollution exceedances. A Strategic Car Parking Review was undertaken during 2017 and 2018 which essentially formed a baseline of car parking in the city centre.
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ICT
Air
Health
Project to understand the contribution of Hamburg's port area as a source of air pollution. Together with AIS and weather information, the identification of individual vessels as pollutant sources is made possible.
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ICT
Air
Health
Building
The project "greening 50 houses" has developed a cost-effective, easily implementable all-in-one solution for greening the road-side facade of existing real estate. The greening prevents urban heat islands and improves the microclimate.
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ICT
Health
Air
Mobility
The app includes corresponding local offers such as ride sharing companies, electric mobility services or a gateway to relevant public transport. In addition the app includes other mobility related information for the area and a function to display a heat map of exhaust pollution in the city lab.
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ICT
Air
Health
As part of a pilot project to improve air quality in Ludwigsburg, filtration expert MANN+HUMMEL has donated a CityTree to the city. With the CityTree, MANN+HUMMEL would like to test sensors for fine dust or other harmful gases in order to use them in future digital products.
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Air
Mobility
Health
Urban air pollution is hyper-local. Deadly air pollution varies more than 8x within 200 meters, which is however not reflected on current air pollution maps. AirVeraCity provides people actionable air quality information by accurately measuring air pollution from a mobile platform.
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Energy
Air
Security
Other
Lamppost infrastructure and street lighting as a whole, are predestined to provide additional services and technologies to cities and their inhabitants. Street lighting is almost everywhere in a more regular pattern and it`s connected to electricity.
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ICT
Energy
Mobility
Air
The bus company in Stavanger planned to replace a ferry connection with bus routes. The web application from Maptrends delivered unique insights based on real time information collected from anonymised SIM card data which helped the company with planning the most cost effective and convenient routes
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ICT
Air
With increasing pollution becoming one of the biggest struggles of cities, they have to collect precise air quality data before initiating concrete measures. In this project Telefonica Next uses anonymised mobile network data to calculate air pollution.
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ICT
Air
Mobility
Breeze Technologies is creating a citizen-driven air quality sensing network in the district Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany.