Sunday, December 26, 2010

Intelligent ecological city have "brain" control water and energy consumption

According to foreign media reports, the Portuguese built in 2015 of a planned eco-cities as smart as the human brain and nervous system, the central computer as the sensor network system that can control the water from the city to all aspects of energy consumption.
If today's city is a living, then they are gluttonous, natural resources consumed each year accounted for 75% of total world consumption. Now the city a more benign biological imminent. This eco-construction in the plan called Smart City PlanIT Valley, located in northern Portugal, near Paredes will be an environmentally sustainable city.
Like other eco-cities, sustainable development, PlanIT Valley City residents can meet their own water and development of renewable energy. The roofs of buildings will also have the vegetation cover to reduce evaporation by the local temperature and absorb rainwater and pollutants. However, the similarities with other eco-city is only so much. First of all, PlanIT Valley will be built near the existing transportation hub. More importantly, its "brain" will use the same as the nervous system of data collection sensor network system used to control the city's power generation, water supply and waste disposal. PlanIT Valley's Chief Executive Stephen ? Lewis (Steven Lewis) said, this looks like the city's "metabolism." He said: "While the installation of such a sensor network system is costly, but because we have reduced the construction cost, so the two can be offset." PlanIT Valley is the hexagonal shape of the building, making more efficient use of space high. University of Westminster, London, Simon ? Jose (Simon Joss) said that the technology used in this eco-town could be transformed into the existing urban use. However, he believes that the completion date of 2015 may be too optimistic, only to wait until people really move to live, to determine the project is successful.

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