State-owned energy provider Wien Energie is to deploy a LoRaWAN network across the city of Vienna as part of its bid to make the Austrian capital the “most livable and smartest city in the world”. Wien Energie has appointed LoRaWAN mainstay Actility to provide the network infrastructure and management platform. Its sister company, network provider Wiener Netze, will handle outdoor infrastructure rollout, while Wien Energie takes charge of the indoor componentry.
A press statement said little about the applications that will be deployed on the network, but presumably they include smart metering, plus some advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in the energy network, as well as related smart-city infrastructure for smart street lighting, environmental monitoring, plus sensor nodes to support other city services. Actility said the project “leans into the city’s commitment to human digitalization, ensuring the technology supports its residents rather than displacing them”.
Leoben will use Greehill’s AI-based smart city solution to create a digital twin of 3,000 trees to monitor the population online and help to tackle climate change.
The Austrian city of Leoben in the state of Styrian is using digital twin smart city technology to tackle climate change through more effective urban tree management.
The city is creating a twin of some 3,000 trees, which will enable it to manage the population online and monitor and predict ecological developments using computer simulations.
Read more: Austrian city uses digital twin to manage its urban trees
Located in Tulln, the project will be completed by 2023
In Tulln, Lower Austria, the opening ceremony for the ground-breaking project “House of Digitisation” took place on Monday, 10 May 2021. The "House of Digitisation " is a component of Lower Austria's digitisation strategy.
The first part of the project is an interactive platform with personalised services that would allow businesses to connect. The building that is being constructed will allow the continuation of this networking between Lower Austrian companies with research and educational institutions and it will also become a meeting place for people interested in digital technology.
Read more: House of Digitisation: an interactive platform for SMEs in Lower Austria
The Aspern Smart City Research project, located in the city-within-a-city development zone of Seestadt, aims to point the way forward for smarter energy systems in urban areas.
The halfway point of the Aspern Smart City Research (ASCR) project in Vienna’s urban development zone of Aspern Seestadt has been reached, with the next ongoing stage focusing on applying the solution concepts tested in the first phase.
Read more: AT: Future energy smart city project in Vienna moves into next phase
Imagine being able to change your home address, receive official documents, and order an election card all in one place.
These simple tasks in reality can take an extremely long time for citizens in other parts of the world but in Austria, you don’t need to look further than your mobile phone.
Read more: Five key takeaways from Austria’s mobile government (mGov) experience