Smart City Playbook

Environment & Agriculture

Usecases

Smart Green Buildings

The Smart Green Buildings initiative optimizes the consumption of resources in buildings through continuous smart management of energy, light, air and water. By leveraging automation, intelligent sensors and analytics, Smart Green Buildings continuously reduce operating costs while ensuring the comfort and safety of occupants. Since buildings in Al Madinah city are not fitted with such smart management systems, water and energy are inefficiently consumed, leading to increased operating costs, faster depletion of the city’s natural resources, and increased environmental impact. As such, it is crucial for Al Madinah city to leverage smart green buildings and regulate the use of these technologies in buildings and grant the city with better control of its resources and reduction of their consumption.

KEY

CHALLENGES

Sector stakeholders are unaware of sustainability commitments and environmental responsibility principles

KEY EXPECTED BENEFITS

Sustainable Consumption

Energy and water consumption will be decreased by up to 25% due to the use of smart technologies, leading to less operating costs as well

Smart Energy Grids

Buildings will be connected to solar grid given the use of smart meters, which will efficiently balance energy supply and demand across the city

Limited Environmental Degradation

Negative impacts on the environment will be limited due to the use of smart building solutions that reduce demand on resources

ALIGNMENT TO SMART CITY OBJECTIVES

Sustainable

Efficient

TARGET USERS

Resident

Business Owner

National Environmental Centers

Business Manager

USE CASE

JOURNEY

Amer works in a developer company which owns buildings in Al Madinah city. As the environment’s protection and green agenda become a priority of the company, he is appointed to manage the Smart Green Buildings initiative.

Through this project, Amer deploys smart solutions in multiple buildings enabling the company to collect data through sensors and track resources consumption such as water, electricity and energy across the building and households. As a result, heating, cooling, lighting, air quality and water usage are optimized through sensor monitoring technologies (e.g., people occupancy), along with automated resource management solutions.

The building’s consumption of energy is further optimized by combining environment variables such as wind, outdoor lighting, temperature, and geothermal energy with smart technologies like automated window blinds and surplus energy storage in walls and floors.

A month later, the company notices the decrease in water, electricity and energy consumption across the building and the benefits realized thanks to the new solutions deployed and the awareness raised amongst the building’s residents.

POTENTIAL SERVICE FEATURES

Smart water networks

Smart meters

LED Lighting

Motion sensors

Building management system

Smart waste disposal system

Solar Water heaters

Green balconies and rooftops

Solar roofs

Wind Power generators

KEY TOUCH POINTS

Web & App

Green Roof

Solar System

Water Network

Implementation
Timeline

Within 6 months

12 – 18 months

Over 24 months

Technology Commercial Viability

Currently commercialized

1 – 3 years to commercialize

5+ years to
commercialize

Regulatory Conduciveness

No New Policies and
Standards

Some Policies &
Standards to be
Introduced

Complex Policies to be
Introduced

Investment Requirement

Low

Medium

High

Use Case Ownership

Government Driven

Piloted by Gov. & Transitioned to Private Sector

Private Sector

Startups & Entrepreneurs

IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS

Policies for water usage in private properties

Integration with smart home management systems

Regulations for seed imports

POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

IN THE MARKET

Environment & Agriculture

Use Cases

Smart Farming Solutions

Eco Digital Wallet

“Farm-to-Table” 
Transformation Toolkit

Sustainable Living Dashboard “Rasheed”

Zero Food Waste Platform “Ne3mah”

Smart Waste
Management

Central Farmers Community & Marketplace

Vertical & Community Agriculture

Smart Green Buildings

Interactive Connected Street