New Smart City Solutions Enabled by Open Data

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the amount of Public Administration Open Data has increased substantially, as well as other datasets publicly available produced by Research, Academic and No Profit institutions, but the maximum benefit from this information has not been fully realized and there are few relevant and impactful services exclusively based on open data analysis. Enel X is looking for new ways of leveraging the open data to create tailored solutions for municipalities.

This is a Reduction to Practice Challenge that requires written documentation and experimental proof-of-concept data.

OVERVIEW

Enel X is a global business offering smart, simple, and fast technologies and services to help our customers make more intelligent decisions about the way energy is created, stored and managed. Enel X is interested in identifying new and effective technologies/solutions – ideally based on the open source paradigm - that leverage open data as main input and synergize with our current solutions to deliver added value within our Public Services Offering. Solutions have to be cost-effective making Enel X competitive in tenders while diversifying and enlarging our offer. In particular, solutions have to focus on:

1. public lighting: innovative solutions to improve the performance and /or simplify operation & maintenance (ex. planning, performance, and predictive analysis);
2. architectural lighting evolution: to enhance the visual impact of historical and valuable buildings;
3. urban mobility (including e-bus).
4. city analysis: relevant analysis to produce indicators and actionable insights that can help public administration in planning and managing their services in a most effective way and that can improve citizens quality of life

Enel X thinks it is also particularly useful to monitor the status of the services and the related trends over time, and offer an "intelligence layer" to discover important and significant correlations among the various data points.

Optimal solution can address a real pain point of cities, producing through open data valuable outputs for cities, analysis useful to improve infrastructures/services operation & maintenance or to increase city resiliency and citizens’ quality of life.

This Challenge provides contribution to the following SDGs:

•       SDG 9, 11  

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This is a Reduction to Practice Challenge that requires written documentation and experimental proof-of-concept algorithms, models, data.

Upon Acceptance of a Proposed Solution by the Seeker and payment of the Award, the exclusive IP rights of the winning Solution will be transferred to the Seeker.

The total prize pool budget is $30,000. The minimum full award amount is $15,000 for solutions that meet all of the stated Solution Requirements. Furthermore, partial awards may be considered for solutions that meet some, but not all, of the Solution Requirements.

Submissions to this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM (Central European Time) on October 9, 2020. 

Late submissions will not be considered.

After the Challenge deadline, the Seeker will complete the review process and make a decision with regards to the Winning Solution(s). All Solvers that submit a proposal will be notified on the status of their submissions.

ABOUT THE SEEKER

Enel X is a global company with strong roots in the energy sector and an open strategy geared towards digitalisation, sustainability and innovation. Enel X uses smart, simple and fast technologies to help our customers discover a new way of using energy, all over the world.

Enel X covers a global field of action.

In order to provide the new solutions requested by customers and to be ready for the future, Enel X has structured its business line into four Global Product Lines:

• e-Industries, offering solutions aimed at large-scale customers, with a particular focus on the flexible services (consulting, technologies linked to energy efficency, distributed generation and the creation of off-grid and Demand Response solutions);
• e-Mobility, covering every type of customer, with the aim of becoming the technological leader in the sector and promoting increasingly widespread and efficient electrical mobility with charging infrastructures, Vehicle-to-Grid (v2G) and second-battery life services;
• e-Home, dedicated to residential customers, with services like installation and maintenance of advanced technological solutions for the home; for smarter homes, capable of saving more and more energy and offering greater wellbeing;
• e-City, offering public administrations and municipalities integrated services and connectivity solutions, like the wholesale offer of fibre optic services.

Alongside the four Global Product Lines, Enel X has also created the “Innovation & Product Lab,” which conceives, develops and tests new products and services. This is often with the help of customers.