Period: 11.5.2023 - 28.2.2025

Content: One of the City of Vaasa's main strategic objectives is to reach carbon
neutrality before 2030 (Carbon Neutral Vaasa 202X). In order to achieve this
goal, decisive planning and measures are required of the city. In addition,
strong collaboration with local organizations, institutions and stakeholders is
essential. The city's climate strategy bears an affect not only on everyday
actions and projects but on piloting and testing new technologies and solutions
as well.One paramount requirement in order to the City of Vaasa to reach its
carbon neutrality objectives, and plan relevant measures, is to be able to
constantly monitor and measure the development of emissions' levels in
real-time. Currently it is not possible for the City of Vaasa to monitor and
analyze the CO2 development nor the impact of executed climate measures in
near-real-time nor in real-time. Real-time monitoring requires the creation of
Internet of Things (IoT) -data platform, which enables the gathering of
essential and relevant data for further analysis and utilization. Primary
objective for the IoT-platform, is to gather data from the city's energy
systems - from energy production and consumption. Furthermore, the city's
traffic system would benefit greatly from a reliable and scalable real-time
data platform for its traffic planning and project implementation and the
evaluation concerning low-carbon mobility.However, the City of Vaasa has no
previous experience in the operation of the IoT-platform and what can be
combined with it and where and how exactly the platform could be utilised.
Building up this knowledge and experience is an essential part of the project's
objectives. The long-term goal is that the IoT-platform can be created with the
project, its operation is proven safe and reliable, and all the requirements,
interfaces and considerations related to it have become familiar to the project
promoters. Thus, the city can develop the certainty to deploy the platform more
widely.

Focus area: Hållbar energiteknik

Campus: Vasa Wolffskavägen 33

Rahoittajat: Europeiska regionala utvecklingsfonden (ERUF)

Project owner: Vaasan kaupunki

Project manager: Hans Lindén

Yhteystyökummpanit: Vasa stad, VAMK, ÅA, Vaasan Yliopisto