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  • Coimbra smart city through a public lighting network
    Publication . Costa, Luís Miguel dos Santos; Agreira, Cristina Isabel Ferreira Figueiras Faustino
    The global crisis called "climate change" that is reflected in the climate, more specifi- cally in extreme events worldwide, some with deadly consequences, and the effect of the war in Ukraine on energy costs force us to reflect deeply on two critical issues of our time, energy, and the environment. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and was approved in September 2015, resulting from the joint work of governments and citizens around the world to create a new global model to end poverty, promote prosperity and well-being for all, protect the environment, and combat climate change. SDG number 11 is on "Sustainable Cities and Com- munities" [1]. The Portuguese Council of Ministers Resolution n. º53/2020, of July 10, approves the National Plan Energy and Climate 2030 (PNEC 2030) that arises in the framework of the obligations established by the Regulation of the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action. The PNEC 2030 characterizes the current situation in Portugal re- garding Energy and Climate, covering five dimensions provided in the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy and Climate Action Union: decarbonization; energy ef- ficiency; security of supply; internal energy market and research; innovation and com- petitiveness [2]. The existence of these two strategic documents and the challenges posed by "energy efficiency," combined with the severe economic crisis that the energy sector is under- going, were the primary motivators for the preparation of this dissertation. The possibility of creating an intelligent system on an existing network, so crucial for human life, especially in terms of safety and comfort, as is the public lighting, using recent technologies and monitoring/reflecting in a living lab in Coimbra, were the final ingredients that gave even more support to the logic of developing this work.
    2024-02-21Master thesis Open access Show more