How European cities can grow & become ‘smarter’ through technology

Cologne is one of three European cities, alongside Stockholm and Barcelona, to be chosen for the EU GrowSmarter scheme to accelerate the development of sustainable cities. The project aims to achieve a 60% saving in primary energy consumption costs, a similar reduction in emissions from buildings and traffic and increase the proportion of renewable energy supply to 60% by 2020.

The company will be providing the project with advanced analytics to support the building and running of low energy neighbourhoods, integrated infrastructures for waste and energy and sustainable mobility including smart traffic management and EVs.

Mati Kochavi, CEO, AGT, said: “We believe that IoT analytics are an essential part of building the city of the future and will give municipal leaders and citizens the tools to harness an incoming tidal wave of IoT data for improved and new services. With that in mind, we’re honoured to be working together with our partners on this ground-breaking EU-wide initiative that takes the smart city from theory into practice and demonstrates what can be done.”