Project description
Smart city digital twin outsmarts global warming
Densely populated cities are huge contributors to climate change, consuming most of the world’s energy and producing significant amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. The impacts can be felt not only on the environment but on human health as well. On the road towards climate-neutral smart cities, the EU-funded SCIENCES project is developing an innovative way to integrate a physically based model into a smart city digital twin. The model will be automatically configured from a 3D city model and an IoT platform and will simulate interactions between buildings and the outdoor environment. The integrated system will allow the simulation of outdoor air conditions and facilitate the study of urban environments, leading to solutions to improve outdoor thermal comfort and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Objective
As most of the world’s population lives in urban areas, cities play a key role in the use of energy resources and public well-being. The quality of life in cities, as well as the consumption of energy, is highly compromised by the heat they release and the Green House Gases (GHGs) they emit. For this reason, Horizon Europe and other international organizations are committed to supporting research and innovation for the development of climate-neutral and smart cities.
Solutions to improve outdoor thermal comfort and reduce GHGs in cities could be more comprehensively studied if physically-based models simulating interactions between buildings and the outdoor environment were integrated into Smart City Digital Twins (SCDTs). The integration of physically-based models into SCDTs is still encountering difficulties, however, and in my research, I propose to overcome these by: 1) automatically configuring a physically-based model from a 3D city model and an Internet of Things (IoT) platform; 2) using statistical models in concurrence with the physically-based model; and 3) simulating temperature, air flow, humidity, and GHGs in the outdoor air, using the physically-based model.
While conducting my research at Carnegie Mellon University and Technical University of Delft, I will diversify my skills and competencies through training activities and through the transfer of knowledge from my supervisors. Together, these will enable me to become a world leader in applying urban microclimate modelling to SCDTs. I will also gain experience in team management and teaching to achieve my career goals in academia. Finally, the collaboration with host organizations and one company in Europe will allow me to extend my professional network in the United States, Europe, and industry.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet internet of things
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security cryptography
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01
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2628 CN Delft
Netherlands
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