Atos joins AI4Cities, the European project to accelerate the transition of cities to carbon neutrality

Madrid (Spain), Paris (France) – June 9, 2021

Atos joins AI4Cities, a 3-year EU-funded task which aims to assistance 6 European cities and locations speed up their transition in the direction of carbon neutrality. This incorporates: Helsinki (Finland), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Copenhagen (Denmark), Paris Area (France), Stravanger (Norway) and Tallin (Estonia). The artificial intelligence (AI) answers will finally add to the reduction of CO2 in the spots of mobility and vitality, two domains accountable for eighty two% of all greenhouse gas emissions in European cities.

Atos has been selected for the Section one of AI4Cities: the pre-commercial procurement (PCP) procedure that challenges technological know-how corporations in the 6 cities and locations to design and style, employ and take a look at ground breaking artificial intelligence answers serving to them to modernize community sector providers and address societal critical challenges. The selected corporations will, with artificial intelligence: assess journey styles to design and style more effective routes and schedules, contributing to a much more compact environmental footprint improve the use of electrical car or truck charging places by delivering tips dependent on artificial intelligence and reduce the time to appraise, approach and endorse investments (e.g. for making renovation). In addition, corporations will operate to improve the usage and vitality effectiveness in properties and increase the use of area renewable electricity as a result of desire management, making use of properties as dispersed thermal vitality storage, among the other answers. The full funding for this task, which will be divided among the the selected suppliers in the course of the total PCP procedure, is 4.6 million euros.

Atos will be accountable for producing providers as a result of the remedy known as “AI4GreenBuildings” which works by using artificial intelligence to enhance the vitality functionality of properties and its influence in conditions of greenhouse gas emissions, as a result of a control suite that screens the making flexible vitality supply (i.e. electricity, heating , air flow, air conditioning, h2o) and use in properties. In parallel, the remedy will assistance municipal determination-makers to generate smarter and more helpful streamlined guidelines. The remedy will also increase citizen consciousness on how their actions can influence vitality usage and CO2 emissions.

“AI4GreenBuildings” proposes an ground breaking remedy to empower cities and their citizens, enabling them to manage all the vitality methods of properties, thanks to an ground breaking Data and Communication Technological innovation (ICT) system, that allows interoperability and integration of units (e.g. meters, sensors, etcetera.) for effective era, storage and usage management particularly built for houses, properties, and even complete neighborhoods and communities. Its open, typical, and flexible design and style opens the doorway to potential scalability, replicability, collaboration, and integration of external communities in a uncomplicated way.

Atos will use machine understanding (ML) products to exploit the gathered knowledge and to generate AI-driven providers to improve vitality useful resource management and as a result reduce in general CO2 emissions.

“We are really proud to operate on serving to provide a sustainable society withAI4Cities, which is the perfect framework to take a look at Atos’s most ground breaking answers for enhancing vitality effectiveness in cities, with the vital complex scope and the enough geographic dimension to get impactful and seen effects in numerous large cities of Europe”, claimed Javier Valiño, Head of the Electricity, Local weather and Decarbonization Unit of the R&D division of Atos Iberia.

Atos has recently confirmed its situation as the leader of decarbonized and safe electronic, pushed by its ambition to access internet-zero by 2028 and, by delivering buyers with the launch of the most detailed, finish-to-finish decarbonization portfolio on the market place: Hyperlink.

AI4cities is built up of numerous multidisciplinary companions from international locations these as France, the Netherlands, Estonia, Denmark, Norway and Spain among the other individuals.

For more information and facts, visit https://ai4cities.eu/

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Atos is a international leader in electronic transformation with 105,000 staff and yearly earnings of above € eleven billion. European selection one particular in cybersecurity, cloud and significant functionality computing, the Group supplies tailor-made finish-to-finish answers for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and goods, Atos is fully commited to a safe and decarbonized electronic for its purchasers. Atos operates beneath the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

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