Sustainable Design
In the last installment of ‘Autognosis: Cities’ we discussed a theory of matching the growth curve of a city with that of an organism. In this installment, I would like to cover the idea of giving that city a nervous system. Clearly such a vast network of complicated relationships – on which modern civilization depends no less – creates a vacuum for coordination, management, and deployment of resources to which Ai seems uniquely suited.
Enter the ‘Smart Grid’.
Dr. Cheong Koon Hean is involved in a program to develop just such a nervous system for the city of Singapore. This nervous system, otherwise known as a ‘Smart Grid’ in the context of a city, seems to be a nexus point between the integration of networked smart technology and living systems. As she describes <here> this involves adding a sensor layer to a city to gather information, as well as building responsive energy management infrastructure.
From Dr. Cheong Koon Hean presentation on Smart Cities
SUMMARY
Adding a sensor layer to a city – Smart Grid/ Smart city.
Collecting massive amounts of data.
– Windflow
– Temperature Modulation
Precinct
Building
Industrial/Home Area
– Shadow (sunshine/solar irradiance) Analysis
– Place Solar Panels
– Humidity
– Heat
– Noise
– Lighting foot traffic
Responsive as well as Predictive
– Transportation
-Transport Planning
Smart Phone
Decision Making
– Learns patterns as well as responds
– Home Energy management system
A ‘Smart Grid’ would allow a city to coordinate traffic flow, control temperatures, manage energy use, and generally allow the city to make adjustments its subsystems in real time.
Just like any complex organism.
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From Dr. Cheong Koon Hean presentation on Smart Cities
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