{"id":55,"date":"2014-07-05T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-08-10T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T14:43:49","slug":"senscity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"SensCity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senscity\u00a0was aimed at developing a wireless network infrastructure for the provision of\u00a0services for a sustainable city. It addressed\u00a0three major challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A technical challenge: the development and testing of a city-wide, open and standardized wireless network infrastructure;<\/li>\n<li>An economic challenge: allow the\u00a0emergence of new services adapted to the needs of operators of urban services (e.g. waste collection, water management);<\/li>\n<li>An environmental challenge: studying\u00a0the positive impact of\u00a0wireless sensor networks\u00a0on sustainable development of the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/senscity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136\" src=\"http:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/senscity.jpg\" alt=\"senscity\" width=\"214\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Status: <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">closed<\/span> (2010-2012)\r\nConsortium: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange.com\/fr\/innovation\" target=\"_blank\">Orange Labs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g-scop.grenoble-inp.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">G-SCOP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g2elab.grenoble-inp.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">G2Elab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liglab.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">LIG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mind-microtec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIND<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcion-env.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alcion Environnement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azimut-monitoring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azimut Monitoring<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bh-technologies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BH Technologies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coronis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coronis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dotvision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DotVision<\/a>, <a href=\"www.egee.fr\" target=\"_blank\">E-GEE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numtech.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">NumTech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebDyn<\/a>. Funded by: French Ministry of Industry.\r\nKeywords: Service ecodesign, Life cycle assessment (LCA), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Wireless sensor networks (WSN)<\/pre>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>Objectives<\/h1>\n<p>Are &#8220;smart&#8221; services better for the environment? Do\u00a0services based on wireless sensor networks (WSN)\u00a0generate less environmental impacts than they help to avoid? The\u00a0environmental challenge of this project was to\u00a0lay the theoretical foundations of an environmental assessment of optimization services and to provide guidance for their ecodesign.<\/p>\n<h1>Contribution<\/h1>\n<p>This project delivered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A theoretical framework helping to understand environmental impacts of optimization services. This required the development of an\u00a0<strong>environmental impact model for information<\/strong> as well as a <strong>lifecycle model for complex technical\u00a0infrastructures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A comprehensive <strong>environmental assessment method<\/strong>\u00a0extending based on these models as well as life cycle assessment (LCA) and wireless sensor network simulation.<\/li>\n<li>Two <strong>wireless sensor simulation tools<\/strong> developed\u00a0with Matlab and WSNet.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>comprehensive ecodesign method<\/strong> based on three levels of improvements:\n<ul>\n<li>equipment: reduce the environmental\u00a0impacts of individual devices independently from their usage in an infrastructure;<\/li>\n<li>infrastructure:\u00a0reduce the use of individual devices in the infrastructure (i.e. use them less and make\u00a0them consume less energy) independently from\u00a0datasets\u00a0to be\u00a0generated;<\/li>\n<li>information:\u00a0reducing the use of the\u00a0infrastructure for a given optimization performance, i.e.\u00a0define the dataset to be\u00a0collected that minimizes the solicitation of the infrastructure and maximizes the capacity to take effective optimization actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Results<\/h1>\n<p>In one hand, the application of the developed method to a case of an optimization service for waste\u00a0collection allowed us to conclude that\u00a0environmental relevance of those services should not been taken for\u00a0granted. The conducted studies confirmed the results of some preliminary studies that identified critical environmental impact transfers while applying WSN-based optimizations services.<\/p>\n<p>In another hand, this project showed that there is a great room of improvement so that\u00a0impact transfers could be avoided.\u00a0Therefore, this project lead to the claim that\u00a0optimization services shall\u00a0systematically be the object of\u00a0a multi-criteria environmental assessment and an\u00a0eco-design\u00a0process,\u00a0before it can be asserted that they lead to environmental impact reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are &#8220;smart&#8221; services better for the environment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremybonvoisin.com\/WordPress3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}