Learn more about Intelligent Cities with our City Demonstrator

Find out what Intelligent Cities are and how they will shape our future

Our Vision

Re-invent our cities of today to become sustainable, resource efficient and enable digital services to intelligent citizens of tomorrow.

With connected systems (e.g. IoT devices) and sensors across the city, many aspects of everyday life can be montiored and improved.

For example: traffic, mobility concepts, building-infrastructures, air-pollution, currently created electricity via PV systems and many more.

The three fundamental aspects of intelligent cities: LIS

Cities should become a place where citizens can easily meet each other in green spaces using intelligent mobility concepts

Intelligent Mobility for Intelligent Citizens

For example, finding the perfect route for E-bikes / E-scouters based on fitness level and heart-rate of the user and the battery charge level of the bike.

Green spaces and natural environment

Green spaces may be watered automatically using conditioned rain and or gray water during dry periods. Information about soil dryness and nutritional status is measured using IoT devices.

Actor-centric neighborhood development

Neighborhoods and infills are designed according to the needs of future residents in terms of floor-plan types and sizes, auxiliary functions and retail as well as smart services for mobility, utilities, retail and social organization.

Connecting a variaty of sensors and devices will make cities more accessible, easier to navigate in and learn about the surroundings (e.g. current wind or air pollution)

Intelligent cities need intelligent people

The human factor has an enormous impact on the development of a city, thus people need to be given the data and should be empowered to contriubte intelligently

Urban Data Platform and geoinformatics specialists

While a plethora of data is being collected - such as geospatial, temporal and sensor data, it is important to disect, seperate and store data in processable junks and in powerful databases to ensures data security and privacy of citizens and data delivery for swift access and to users and stake holders.

Intelligent operation of utilities and infrastructure

Information makes it easier and more efficient for suppliers of electricity, mobility, communication technology, water, etc. to match peaks of production with peaks and lows of demand. Building information modelling allows operators to repair and maintain physical assets more efficiently.

Tomorrow's city spends its resources carefully. This means that resources need to be collected, measured, conserved and used at the right time and place.

Quality of live is at the heart of intelligent cities and citizens foster it

Modern cities provide more green spaces and natural environments to live and spend quality time with friends and family.

Live like there is no tomorrow - reduce your carbon foot print

By visualizing air pollution and CO2 concentration as well as wind flows of the city using 3D web-applications, citizens may be more sensitive to their behavior and are easiert incentivized to use environmentally friendly modes of transportation.

Cradle 2 Cradle

A material cadaster for buildings and infrastructure keeps track of materials like copper and steel that are used in buildings and become raw materials at the end of the buildings service life.

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Drees & Sommer

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HFT Stuttgart

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Team

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Prof. Volker Coors

Prof. of Computer Science, Director of the Steinbeis Center for Technology Transfer

Prof. Coors has been with HFT Stuttgart since 2002, dean for Information Logistics between 2006 – 2017 and currently spokesman of the joint PhD program Windy Cities. Since 2019 he is the scientific director of the institute of applied research at HFT Stuttgart. He is a voting member of the CityGML SWG and chair of the 3D Portrayal SWG of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
volker.coors@hft-stuttgart.de

Prof. Iris Belle

Prof. of Master's degree Smart City Solutions. Consultant at DreSo

Iris Belle co-directs the Master Programme Smart City Solutions at HfT Stuttgart. She is also a Leading Consultant at Drees & Sommer and develops digital and sustainability concepts for cities, precincts and campuses for public and private clients. She co-leads the Smart City Demonstrator. Iris Belle holds a PhD in Geography from Heidelberg University and a Diploma in Architecture from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
iris.belle@hft-stuttgart.de

Maximilian Haag

Managing Director zafh.net / Program Management iCity

Maximilian Haag is managing the Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (zafh.net) at HFT Stuttgart. He is also responsible for the strategic development of the research program "iCity: Intelligent City" at HFT Stuttgart. He develops transdisciplinary projects in the fields of Smart Buildings & Smart Cities, Building and Energy Technologies.
maximilian.haag@hft-stuttgart.de

Patrick Wuerstle

Researcher at IAF and ZGG

Patrick Würstle works in the M4_Lab Innovative Hochschule project. In this project he is responsible for the development of a 3D Public Participation Platform. Patrick Würstle holds a Masters Degree in Photogrametrie and Geoinformatics from University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart (HFT) and is currently working towards his PhD.
patrick.wuerstle@hft-stuttgart.de

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