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Smart roads for sustainable roads: monitoring utility cut impacts to conserve pavement 

06-06-2016 10:50

The “roads/networks” demonstrator is being developed on the Cité Scientifique Campus near Lille, as part of the SunRise project consisting in transforming the campus into a demonstrator of a smart, sustainable city. The campus covers some one hundred hectares with training (20,000 students), research (2,500 personnel, teachers and researchers), housing (4,000 permanent residents), culture, sports and recreation activities. The 140 buildings on the Campus (representing almost 320,000m2) are served by almost 100km of urban networks: roads, drinking water, sewer systems, electricity, public lighting and urban heating (Figure 1). The campus also has a heat production source. The purpose of the SunRise project is to employ technological and non-technological innovations to improve the living environment on the Campus, cut water and energy consumption and make users genuine stakeholders in the sustainable development of their Campus. The project also aims to provide stakeholders in the city with a full-scale experiment addressing all the issues of technologies, user interaction and governance. The experiment concerns the various utility networks (electricity, urban heating, public lighting, drinking water, sewers, roads, etc.), building energy performances and the interaction between buildings and urban networks. It has several objectives: achieving optimal use of resources, improving the operating security of urban systems, establishing interaction with users and setting up an academic, innovation and transfer platform. The SunRise project is supported by the local authorities (Lille Métropole and the Regional Council), water and energy operators, international partners and start-ups. It is one of 4 European Smart Water Network demonstrators (London, Caceres in Spain, Leeuwarden in the Netherlands and the Cité Scientifique in France) financed under the European SmartWater4Europe project. The work with our partners has served to establish the initial diagnoses and define a strategy for rolling out the concept of smart networks. An urban information system is under construction in order to combine information on the assets and working of the various urban networks and buildings in a single system. An initial set of instrumentation is being used to collect data on the various types of consumption. This data is then used to develop an expert system for optimal network management.

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