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Winter 2017 European Energy Innovation 55

CITY DIGITAL

with leading cities Milan and Lisbon,
and fellow cities such as Bordeaux,
Warsaw and Burgas. Together we are
developing an integrated response to
the challenges we all face, including
the European decarbonisation targets.
We are exploring a wide range of
energy related initiatives including
shared electric vehicles and e-bikes, a
district heat pump and smart lighting.
By sharing our experiences we hope to
make better decisions and reduce our
entry costs.

Other smaller projects are also We are currently inviting more be room for more, particularly
suitable for sharing. For example, cities and places to join us energy industry participants,
with separate funding from Innovate alongside our founder members. whether corporates or SMEs, so
UK, we are working with Magnetic We are well supported by industrial please join us and contact
Systems Technology Ltd (www. members but there will always isgsupport@etsi.org. l
magtec.co.uk) retrofitting a 26 tonne
Refuse Collection Vehicle with a fully Paul Copping is Chief Innovation Officer at Digital Greenwich, serving the
electric drive train, bin hoists and Royal Borough of Greenwich, population 270,000. His role is to engage with
compactor. This will have a 300 kWh industrial partners to deploy integrated technology solutions that will result
battery and work for a 14 hour shift in more innovative, agile and cheaper services for Greenwich citizens. Paul
without recharging. We are proving is currently working on connected and autonomous vehicles; 5G wireless;
the concept and seeking encouraging and a collaborative smart city procurement framework. Paul has an MBA in
full commercial production in time for Marketing from Cass Business School and an MA in Spanish and French from
a renewal of our fleet of 36 vehicles the University of Cambridge. His earlier career background is in telecoms
in 2020. We are keen to share this (Nortel, BT) and mobility (Transport Research Laboratory) with a focus on
experience with other cities. corporate development and innovation management. He is a Director of the
City Protocol Society and the Chairman of “City Digital Profile” – a new Industry
Our work at the ETSI City Digital Profile Specification Group at ETSI.
ISG seeks to facilitate more of this
sharing by providing easily replicable
guidelines which are compatible
with collaborative procurement
frameworks. The key development
we are experiencing here is that
the domains of energy, mobility,
communications, sustainability and so
on are rapidly converging through use
of shared management infrastructure.
Increasingly we can set protocols to
manage interactions based on real
time data for building management,
energy storage or air quality.

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