Convergent Infrastructures for Municipalities as Connecting Platform for Climate Applications

Since topics such as climate protection come more and more in focus to municipalities, as they are in the role to implement related processes, technical support systems in this area are powerful tools. The most obvious requirement is the implementation of a monitoring infrastructure, which helps to measure the current state of energy consumption in buildings, properties and far beyond, focusing on various sectors such as industry, mobility, waste, etc. Apart, there are requirements and connected technologies and solutions in the fields of Ambient Assisted Living or Smart Home, which can be considered separately from the infrastructure perspective. But, in future, digital services will continuously grow together, simply by the need of various requirements for data exchange in many use cases. In the work at hand we show that in certain areas topics such as IoT in energy management, Ambient Assisted Living or Smart Home solutions should not be considered as separate platforms, but as convergent building blocks of a connected infrastructure landscape. In the context of municipal climate protection, this approach is illustrated in an example case study by presenting a central platform, which allows municipal energy management in conjunction with other services. The development is illustrated based on an innovative software environment that brings the idea in productive application.