Smart Environmental Management of Municipal Operations – Reykjavik

Objectives of the project:

• Lead by example
• Collect data on our use of resources
• Analyse data and spot trends and patterns
• Expose wasteful practices and increase efficiency
• Calculate environmental impact, the city’s CO2 footprint
• Create an action plan

Implementation:

Klappir Green Solutions – Enviro Master is a platform of digital environmental management tools which is used by the City. The platform:

• Streams real time data from service providers
• Measures waste handling & disposal, electricity use, heating, cold water use, fuel consumption and much more
• Gives a clear overview of the usage of resources on a digital dashboard
• Comparison between buildings and floors, departments, postal codes etc.
• Exposes wasteful practices
• Calculates environmental impact and footprint. 

Key challenges:

Some of the challenges for the project have been answering the questions:

• Who is responsible for running this project – where should it be placed?
• How much manpower should be allocated during the implementation period?
• Who should have access to the platform’s dashboard?
• Who are the audiences we need to keep engaged and how?

Key learnings:

• Ideas can change the world

• Sound preparation is invaluable

• Knowledge is essential

• Ideas, preparations and knowledge are all but useless without action

• Action is the starting point of all progress

Organisation: City of Reykjavík

What stage is the project at: Implementation started late 2017. The initiative is connecting new data sources, registering all the assets of the city, including 540 buildings and 450 cars.