Success story
Ecociudad Valdespartera Zaragoza
- Structure a system for comprehensive and real-time remote monitoring and control for the city's urban services: drinking water supply network, wastewater and stormwater drainage network, irrigation systems, electricity and gas supply, public lighting, pneumatic waste collection, energy efficiency network in homes, and environmental control network.
- Analyze and evaluate the behavior of each of the city's operations with the aim of meeting the environmental sustainability criteria set out in the urban design plan.
- Valdespartera is one of the largest projects in Spain in terms of social housing developed under the principles of energy efficiency, waste and emission reduction, and efficient use of natural resources.
- The project, which aims to overcome the fragmented nature that sometimes occurs in urban growth, required a great effort in the design of the management system, as there were practically no precedents in the matter.
- In Valdespartera, there was a need to integrate and consolidate data from a multitude of instrumentation devices that would execute the operation of the city's various systems.
- The deployed system, which manages most of the existing operations in the city and collects information from activities that have their own management environments, centralizes and cross-references the data obtained, allowing for analysis of compliance with Valdespartera's environmental objectives.
- Wonderware technology allows for the remote execution of multiple urban operations: irrigation of green areas, public lighting, control of the water network, monitoring of energy consumption in homes...
Ecociudad Valdespartera Zaragoza is the first urban development project carried out in Spain that is governed entirely by bioclimatic criteria, in line with the environmental sustainability objectives set out by the Kyoto Protocol, and represents one of the largest social housing initiatives developed to date in the country.
Located south of the City of Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Valdespartera has a total area of 243.2 hectares with 78 plots on which 9,687 homes are distributed, 96.9% of which are officially protected. The complex also has 181,645 m2 of profitable construction and other uses, such as facilities and public services, as well as direct transport to the center of Zaragoza by tram and bus.
Noelia Olona, Head of the Technical Area, Ecociudad Valdespartera Zaragoza The remote control system allows us to resolve two key issues for a smart city like Valdespartera: it guarantees the remote and integrated control and management of municipal networks and allows for the evaluation and analysis of the environmental impact in relation to the defined bioclimatic criteria, generating a knowledge base that will serve to improve designs in the future.
