Thanks to a prioritization system, the traffic lights automatically turn green for Böblingen’s bus, fire and rescue vehicles.
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Air pollution, congested streets, stressed-out motorists – in the competition for a better quality of life and economic strength cities are looking for affordable solutions to make their public transportation systems more appealing. Böblingen, a German city in Baden-Wuerttemberg with approximately 47,000 residents, is one of them.
More and more people live in cities, and their consumption of energy is growing. Technical University of Munich professor Thomas Auer and his students are looking for ways of encouraging people to save energy without impairing their quality of life. Smart buildings like the new Siemens HQ in Munich show what can be done.
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More and more people live in cities, and their consumption of energy is growing. Technical University of Munich professor Thomas Auer and his students are looking for ways of encouraging people to save energy without impairing their quality of life. Smart buildings like the new Siemens HQ in Munich show what can be done.
How to combat poverty through markets? What is the social aspect of a company and how does it relate to its economic function? How are social enterprises changing the landscape of development cooperation and how are they influencing local projects? To explore these and other questions and to provide decision-making support for those in the field, Siemens Stiftung together with Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen founded the International Research Network for Social Economic Empowerment (IRENE I SEE) for socio-economic analyses.
The way power is generated and distributed is set to change fundamentally all over the world. However, even experts don’t know exactly how distributed power systems will be structured in the future. Researchers at Siemens and RWTH Aachen University are therefore simulating possible future energy systems on the basis of millions of diverse data sets. In this manner, they are creating digital “twins” of future energy-system structures in a project that is unlike any other in the world.
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The way power is generated and distributed is set to change fundamentally all over the world. However, even experts don’t know exactly how distributed power systems will be structured in the future. Researchers at Siemens and RWTH Aachen University are therefore simulating possible future energy systems on the basis of millions of diverse data sets. In this manner, they are creating digital “twins” of future energy-system structures in a project that is unlike any other in the world.
Between now and 2025 the population of Los Angeles will grow by around 2.5 million people. With one eye fixed on meeting the demands of these new and existing residents for energy, water, transport, and communications, the city is investing US$40 million in infrastructure that could signal the start of a new era of sustainable development.
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Between now and 2025 the population of Los Angeles will grow by around 2.5 million people. With one eye fixed on meeting the demands of these new and existing residents for energy, water, transport, and communications, the city is investing US$40 million in infrastructure that could signal the start of a new era of sustainable development.
See how ingenuity from Siemens touches lives across America
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Siemens Ingenuity for life is moving America forward.
Smart microgrids provide higher reliability and more efficient operation of distributed generation assets than conventional systems. Siemens is participating in a community energy resiliency grant program in New York State and optimizing electrical generation at a Native American reservation in California.
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Smart microgrids provide higher reliability and more efficient operation of distributed generation assets than conventional systems. Siemens is participating in a community energy resiliency grant program in New York State and optimizing electrical generation at a Native American reservation in California.
How can cities become smarter and more livable? Siemens expert Martin Powell talks about the main emerging trends for urban technologies and the crucial role of digitalization.
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Mr. Powell, you live and work in London. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's annual index (2014), London is one of Europe's least livable cities. Isn’t this surprising, given that London’s infrastructure has long been a model for other big cities?
More than 800 innovators from 88 countries submit technical inventions with social impact for people in developing regions
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The “empowering people. Award 2015”, launched last July, has attracted innovators and developers around the world. They entered products and solutions in the most relevant categories of basic supply designed to tackle challenges faced by those living in the poorest regions of the world. Alongside the 23 winning solutions, the most promising entries will be showcased in the Siemens Stiftung’s Solutions Database making the innovations accessible to the public.
