Implementing Smart Urban Metabolism in the Stockholm Royal Seaport: Smart City SRS
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Summary: For half a century, system scientists have relied on urban metabolism (UM) as a pragmatic framework to support the needed transition toward sustainable urban development. It has been suggested that information and communication technology (ICT) and, more specifically, smart cities can be leveraged in this transition. Given the recent advances in smart cities, smart urban metabolism (SUM) is considered a technology‐enabled evolution of the UM framework, overcoming some of its current limitations. Most significantly, the SUM framework works at high temporal (up to real‐time) and spatial (down to household/individual) resolutions. This article presents the first implementation of SUM in the Smart City Stockholm Royal Seaport R&D project; it further analyzes barriers and discusses the potential long‐term implications of the findings. Four key performance indicators (KPIs) are generated in real time based on the integration of heterogeneous, real‐time data sources. These are kilowatt‐hours per square meter, carbon dioxide equivalents per capita, kilowatt‐hours of primary energy per capita, and share of renewables percentage. These KPIs are fed back on three levels (household, building, and district) on four interfaces, developed for different audiences. The most challenging barrier identified was accessing and integrating siloed data from the different data owners (utilities, building owners, and so forth). It is hard to overcome unless a significant value is perceived. A number of long‐term opportunities were described in the SUM context; among those, it is envisioned that SUM could enable a new understanding of the causalities that govern urbanism and allow citizens and city officials to receive feedback on the system consequences of their choices.
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Cities can well become smartly sustainable or sustainably smart if the ubiquity and massive use of ICT could primarily be directed towards improving sustainability.
“Rather, cities can well become smartly sustainable pr sustainably smart if the ubiquity and massive use of ICT could primarily be directed towards improving sustainability (e.g., [16,20,28,55,82,112]).”
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Smart cities can become sustainable and sustainable cities smart when ICT is primarily utilised for and directed towards enhancing sustainability performance with respect to what each of these two urban development strategies lack in terms of any potential inadequacy as to this performance.
“Smart cities can become sustainable and sustainable cities smart when ICT is primarily utilised for and directed towards enhancing sustainability performance with respect to what each of these two urban development strategies lack in terms of any potential inadequacy as to this performance (e.g., [5,16,18,20,26,55,82,112]).”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [112]
Emerging ICT is being leveraged in accelerating environmental sustainability in both smart cities and sustainable cities.
“Already, emerging ICT is being leveraged in accelerating environmental sustainability in both smart cities and sustainable cities (e.g., [5,16,21,82,112]), making it possible to approach a range of issues around environmental sustainability in cities from a whole new perspective.”
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- Authors
- Shahrokni, H., Årman, L., Lazarevic, D., Nilsson, A., & Brandt, N.
- Affiliations
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Shahrokni, Hossein
- Venue
- Journal of Industrial Ecology
- Published
- 2015-08-18
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 917-929
- ISSN
- 1088-1980 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9290
- OpenAlex
- W2121213724
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 46
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- FWCI
- 16.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Industrial Ecology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Keywords
- urban metabolism, smart cities, Stockholm Royal Seaport, real-time data integration, key performance indicators, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, renewable energy share, data silos, data access barriers, sustainable urban development
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