RUGGEDISED took part in the European Sustainable Energy week, alongside fellow Horizon 2020 projects, hosting together a joint policy session looking into the replication potential of smart solutions.

Coordinated by ICLEI, all nine Horizon 2020 smart city projects got together for the "Smarter is cleaner" policy session focusing on the replication potential of the energy-related smart solutions being implemented in the lighthouse cities. The aim of this joint event was to equip other cities with the know-how to replicate the processes and technological solutions already developed.

The session looked more closely at smart solutions along three topics: smart grids, smart electric storage and industrial to civic prosumers. The environmental, economical and societal benefits of these solutions were discussed between Lighthouse and Follower cities present.

Rick Klooster from Rotterdam's partner Future Insight presented one of the smart city solutions implemented in RUGGEDISED: a 3-D City operations model. This solution looks at how to gather the data produced in Rotterdam for this project in order to create 3D visualizations showing the energy-use in real-time.