DC4Cities

Environmentally sustainable data centres for Smart Cities

Informazioni Generali

Coordinatore:: FREEMIND CONSULTING BELGIUM MANAGEMENT (Belgio)
Responsabile ENEA:: CHINNICI MARTA - TERIN-ICT-HPC (CASACCIA)
Ruolo ENEA:: PARTNER
Sito WEB:: http://www.dc4cities.eu

Descrizione e Attività

Descrizione Generale

Data centres are involved play two different and complementary roles in Smart Cities' energy policies with two roles: as ICT infrastructures supporting Smart City resource optimization systems - and more in general, delivering for ICT services to the citizens - and as large energy consumers. Therefore there are huge expectations on data centres being able to run at the highest levels of renewable energy sources: this is the great challenge of DC4Cities project.
DC4Cities addresses these requirements optimizing data centre operations as well as software running in the data centre for minimal energy consumption and adaptivity to external energy constrains, targeting the 80% usage of renewable energy sources.
The goal of DC4Cities is to let make existing and new data centres become energy adaptive, without requiring any logistics modification to the logistics, and without impacting the quality of the services provided to their users. Finally new energy metrics, benchmarks, and measurement processes will be developed and proposed for the definition of new related standards.
DC4Cities will promote the data centres role as an "eco-friendly" key player in the Smart Cities energy policies, and will foster the integration of a network of local renewable energy providers (also interconnected with local Smart Grids and microgrids) to support the pursued increase of renewable energy share.

Attività svolta da ENEA

ENEA è leader del WP7 “Standardization, Energy metrics and Benchmarks” e partecipa ai seguenti work package:
•WP1: Project management;
•WP2: Scenarios and relevant Energy Metrics;
•WP3: Architecture, Integration, Technical Metrics and Benchmarks;
•WP4: City Energy Management and DC Federation Integration;
•WP5: Energy Adaptive/Constrained Software & Infrastructure;
•WP8: Dissemination & Exploitation

Programmi Europei

Programma:: Settimo Programma Quadro R&ST (2007-2013) → ICT (2007-2013) (CP - Progetto di collaborazione)

Dati Finanziari (in euro)

Costo Eleggibile

Progetto:: 4.890.000,00
ENEA:: 399.400,00

Contributo

Al progetto:: 3.500.000,00
A ENEA:: 304.150,00

Durata del Progetto

Anno di stipula e Durata:: 2013 - 30 mesi
Periodo:: 01-09-2013 → 29-02-2016

Numero di Partner (10)

Ruolo	Tipologia	Nome	Nazione
	Istituti di ricerca	INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE	Francia
	Università	UNIV. MANNHEIM	Germania
	Università	UNIV. PASSAU	Germania
	Istituti di ricerca	C.R.E.A.T.E. CONSORZIO DI RICERCA PER L'ENERGIA L'AUTOMAZIONE E LE TECNOLOGIE DELL'ELETTROMAGNETISMO	Italia
	Industrie	HEWLETT PACKARD ITALIANA SRL	Italia
	Istituti di ricerca	CESCA CENTRE DE SERVEIS CIENTIFICS I ACADEMICS DE CATALUNYA	Spagna
	Industrie	GAS NATURAL SDG SA	Spagna
	Enti locali	IMI INSTITUT MUNICIPAL D'INFORMATICA DE BARCELONA	Spagna
COORD	Società di consulenza	FREEMIND CONSULTING BELGIUM MANAGEMENT	Belgio
PARTNER	Istituti di ricerca	ENEA	Italia

Keyword associate al progetto dal database di CORDIS (3)

Keyword	Argomento	Macro
Increased efficiency of energy use	Energy	ENERGY SAVING
RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY	Energy	RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY
STANDARDS	Measurements and Standards	STANDARDS

Altre Keyword non presenti nel database di CORDIS (1)

Keyword
Smart cities

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