Lyon's demonstration area is Lyon Confluence - one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in France (150 ha – 600 000 m² existing floor area – 1.000.000 m² of new buildings).
It is the first WWF approved urban development in France and it is the largest urban redevelopment area in France with such an ambitious target such as the zero carbon objectives: the annual greenhouse gases emissions at the end of the urban project must not be superior to the level of emission at the project start.
Lyon is constantly evolving and becoming an innovative, sustainable and vibrant smart city. Through participating in the Smarter Together Project, Lyon aims to:
In addition, another objective is to provide to the Grand-Lyon data platform new sets of dynamic data from the energy and sustainable mobility sector collected from various sources: smart power and heat meters, building energy management system, energy production systems in the area such as photovoltaic systems and the district heating power plant. These new sets of data will be used to improve existing applications or develop new ones with the aim of providing global understanding of the energy flows of the district in order to enhance the urban planning process as well as the planning, design and operation of public infrastructure.
Lyon’s demonstration area is Lyon Confluence - one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in France (150 ha – 600 000 m2 existing floor area – 1.000.000 m2 of new buildings). It is the first WWF approved urban development in France with an ambitious target of zero increase of greenhouse gas emissions.
The inhabitants of the neighbourhood reflect the diversity of the population (in terms of income, socio-professional category and age). Lyon-Confluence is a place to live and work with housings, office spaces and public equipment.
Since the beginning of the urban project (around 2000), communication activities have been an important feature in order:
The Expo House of the Lyon-Confluence area is now well recognised by the inhabitants and strong links have been set up with local actors: companies, inhabitants, owners, public and cultural actors
On this basis, the features of the citizen engagement within Smarter Together consist in the design of the Lyon-Confluence Living Lab, by updating the existing Expo House of the Lyon-Confluence Urban project and by integrating new activities related to smart city like information about the projects of the Smarter Together Lyon Lighthouse project: implementation of new energy capacity production (e.g. district heating and photovoltaic), opportunities to undertake the eco-refurbishment of buildings, co-design and test of urban services via regular workshops
Target group in the energy sector: groups of owners, inhabitants, workers
The overall objective of this project is to inform and activate citizens and stakeholders for the citizen engagement process within ST. It is essential to convince local stakeholders to become partners in the project in order share to their goals with the city. This will be achieved by transferring basic knowledge to the residents and stakeholders and by raising the citizens` awareness for the engagement process.
The Expo House “Maison de la Confluence” – addresses all topics related to the urban projects in the Lyon Confluence area (including smart city & sustainable development). Its ambitious objective is to activate citizens and stakeholders to participate in the dialogue and co-design of a smart and sustainable district and the smart use of technology. Therefore, the lab was designed as an exhibition hall and is home to the citizen and stakeholder engagement process.
This process aims at integrating the expertise of local businesspeople, neighbourhood communities and initiatives, local politicians and policy makers as well as other stakeholders. The approach follows a co-creation strategy for the redevelopment of the Lyon Confluence area. By developing user-centric solutions as well as through the construction of comfortable and affordable dwellings and office places, convenient public spaces and an easy access to the district, generally aiming to provide a higher quality of life for the citizens.
Update of the Lyon Confluence project expo house, to offers a place for dialogue, participatory environment, and co-design of the smart use of technology.
"Eurêka Club" : partnership between SPL Lyon Confluence and a dozen of public and private partners (operating in energy, mobility, real estate, construction...).
Launch of a call for interest in June 2018 for citizen-led projects related to sustainable development and quality of life in the Lyon-Confluence area.
Among the 29 projects received, 3 were selected by a jury and are currently under implementation.
Lyon has ambitious objectives mainly related to environmental issues that lead them to implement e-mobility projects in order to:
The expected outcome of the projects is to:
An overall aspect of the project is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from cars in urban areas. The main motivation is to provide e-mobility solutions and services that can complement public transport and to collect data about the energy and the usage of solutions.
The Bluely car sharing initiative comprises, in Lyon Confluence, 3 electric vehicle charging stations with 5-7 parking spots each and a fleet of 15 electric cars.
Another offer of electric car charging stations is provided by CNR. It consists in few EV charging stations in the Greater Lyon area, without any dedicated fleet of electric vehicles. One CNR station is located in Lyon Confluence.
The project consists in testing two autonomous driving electric shuttle buses while generating high quality data. The shuttles operate on a pre-defined car-free route with the length of 1.5 km (5 stops) and have a maximum capacity of 15 passengers. The generated dynamic data is about energy consumption and energy use and will be connected to the Lyon Metropolis Data platform.
Construction of a new underground car park of 840 places, featuring 20 electric charging stands.
Equipment and commissionning of the CNR electric charging station (3 fast-charging stands), powered at 100% by renewable energy
Equipment and commissionning of the 3 Bluely electric charging stations (16 stands in total), powered at 100% by renewable energy
In order to become more resource and cost efficient while fostering the use of alternative energies, Lyon has set up the following goals:
The expected outputs of the projects are:
This project deals with installing a photovoltaic (PV) system on the roof of the already existing Chanfray gym hall. The PV system is aimed to be connected to the Grand-Lyon Data platform.
A photovoltaic system will be installed on the roof of an existing industrial building. The first step is to refurbish the building, then the PV system will be constructed on the top of it. Later, it will be connected to the Grand Lyon Data platform.
A photovoltaic (PV) system is commissioned on the roof of the newly constructed building block called A3-Block. The PV system will be connected to the Grand Lyon Data platform.
A photovoltaic (PV) system will be installed on the roof of the newly constructed building block called B2-Block. The main challenge is managing the implementation of a collective self-consumption scheme and the connection of this PV system to the Grand-Lyon data platform.
10 substations of the district heating systems are already equipped with a communication infrastructure allowing to send data to the Lyon metropolis data platform. A software gathering all the data from the substations of the district heating has been developed and is able to communicate with the Lyon Metropolis data platform.
Key contact person: Etienne Vignali
Installation of a Photovoltaic system on the roof of a refurbished building : Girard Hall / H7
The project`s goal is the installation of 200 home energy displays in order to provide inhabitants of refurbished homes with dynamic information regarding their energy consumption. The energy displays may visualize data received from the Grand-Lyon data platform. The solution offers a human interface to make the data, and the further use of it understandable.
Construction of the district heating network.
Commissioning of a new power plant to reach an energy mix coming at 66% from renewable energies.
Construction of 21 smart substations equipped with smart heat meters (connected to the Lyon Métropole data platform).
Installation of a Photovoltaic system on the roof of a refurbished building : King Charles building
The general objectives regarding the topic of data management platform and smart services and data can be described as follows:
Based on the increasing number of gathered data sets and possible new information derived, new services and applications, serving citizens and infrastructure needs, can be developed. Moreover interdependencies between several domains and related problems – e.g. energy production and consumption – not known in advance might be figured out. Challenges regarding external drivers e.g. policy, governance and external events can be better understood and therefore be addressed.
The expected output concerns the realization of urban data platforms and integration of data from infrastructure components, e.g. building management systems, renewable sources (RES) production sites, traffic and mobility management systems (car/e-bike sharing) and creates a comprehensive collection of data for the various domains affected within the project.
Based on this data more suitable information, e.g. applications for end users and key performance indicators regarding the particular measures realized within the project demonstration areas, are created. These direct measures will have indirect societal benefits for citizens, public authorities and other local actors including new business opportunities, lower energy bills in the demonstration districts, citizen-driven data strategies and improved co-creation capacity on local level.
The main categories of data gathered and stored within the city urban data platforms are:
Considering the given general objectives, individual objectives have been identified for Lyon. Therefore, low- and hi-tech smart city solutions should be deployed in the Lyon-Confluence area, focusing on:
The goal of the project was to use the content-mangement-system (CMS), formerly developed by Toshiba to display energy data collected by the Grand-Lyon Data Platform to gain a global understanding of the energy flows of the area, in order to improve the urban planning process and the planning, design and operation of public infrastructures. The solution has to be rebuilt due to cost and licensing reasons. Thus, instead of having an update of the previous CMS done by Toshiba, the plan is now that the Lyon Metropolis re-build a new open-source based CMS, with the technical expertise of Toshiba.
This project deals with the deployment of an electric smart meters solution called “Linky” in the Lyon-Confluence area. There are 8.000 smart meters planned. The overarching objective is to monitor the actual effects and benefits of measures implemented in order to reach the zero carbon objective sets within the WWF Sustainable Action Plan. The challenge is to comply with specific privacy requirements of the users and to motivate them to share their data.
The Grand-Lyon data platform is implemented in order to monitor the objectives of the Sustainable action Plan, as well as, to make data available for the creation of new apps. Privacy related concerns are addressed and the Grand-Lyon data platform is declared to the French data protection authority. Data with personal information can be stored with restricted use so that only the owner can have access to it. For the first time, the Lyon Metropolis is collecting energy data on its platform and developing a Community Management System to use these data.
Data-based visualisation tool to display energy data collected by the Lyon Métropole Data Platform to gain a global understanding of the energy flows of the area in order to improve the urban planning process and the planning, design and operation of public infrastructures.
The overall objectives are to:
Lyon expects the following outputs as a result of refurbishment projects:
The project initiated the refurbishment of a social housing block (owned by a social housing operator : Régionale d’HLM de Lyon) which was built between 1914 and 1930. It contains 162 flats for around 320 people and is under heritage protection. Compared to before, the refurbishment will lower the energy consumption approximately five times. All flats will be connected to the district heating.
The goal is to reuse a former industrial building as an office building for startups. A photovoltaic system is set to be installed on the roof of the building which will also be connected to district heating comprising its energy mix. The current refurbishment works have started in March 2017 and will end in September 2018.
Refurbishment of a Social Housing block with 257 flats built in 1930ies
Refurbishment of a building belonging to a private group of owners (35 rue Smith) : 14 flats (1,600 m2)
Refurbishment of a building belonging to a private group of owners (61 rue Delandine) : 25 flats (1,600 m2)
Refurbishment of a building belonging to a private group of owners (21-23 rue Casimir Périer & 54 rue Smith) : 36 flats (2,700 m2) built in 1930s
Reuse of a former part of the wholesale market (built in the 1960s) into a low-energy office building.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 691876