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Cities play an increasingly important role with regards to energy transition. Main goal is to reach international and national (Swiss) targets related to energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction. As a contribution to these global challenges, during the last 6 years the State of Geneva has been producing a detailed solar cadaster. In order to facilitate periodical updates of this solar cadaster, the iCeBOUND project was launched. Around 10 public and private stakeholders, all linked within the Geneva Territorial Information System (SITG), collaborated on the project. Its aim was to design and develop a cloud-based Decision Support System (DSS) that leverages 3D digital urban data with high computing performance, hence facilitating environmental analyses in large built areas, like solar energy potential assessment. As result of the project, an official geoportal and a newfangled public web interface were made widely available early 2017, so as to strengthen decision making with regards to solar installation investment.
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Among other things, CTI aims to bring cutting-edge companies closer to academic research, thus allowing to create a strong dynamic in R&D promotion and to enhance the potential for innovation. Involved partners are Geneva energy agency, Geneva facility agency-SIG, Geneva geomatics agency, Geneva topographic, agency, CTI, Arx iT, HEPIA, CERN, EPFL and POLIMI.
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Authors are definitely indebted to several Geneva institutions that truly contributed to iCeBOUND project: L. Niggeler and G. Cornette (Geneva topographic agency), P. Oehrli and A. Vieira de Mello (Geneva geomatic agency), C. Anthoine-Bourgeois, J. Shulepov and J. R. Fahrni (Geneva facility agency, SIG).
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Desthieux, G. et al. (2018). Solar Cadaster of Geneva: A Decision Support System for Sustainable Energy Management. In: Otjacques, B., Hitzelberger, P., Naumann, S., Wohlgemuth, V. (eds) From Science to Society. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65687-8_12
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