Dresden design: Visionary. Networked. Future-oriented.

Goals and vi­sion

In­no­v­a­tive,
dig­i­tal and
live­able

The state cap­i­tal Dres­den is de­vel­op­ing and test­ing cross-sec­tor dig­i­tal strate­gies for liv­ing and work­ing in a city of the fu­ture as part of its Smart-City mea­sures. Dig­i­tal­iza­tion will con­tin­ue to change many ar­eas of ad­min­is­tra­tion, the econ­o­my and ur­ban so­ci­ety. In a Smart City "smart city", mu­nic­i­pal in­fra­struc­tures such as en­er­gy, build­ings, trans­port, wa­ter and waste­water are in­ter­con­nect­ed with the help of in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies.

At Smart City Dres­den, the op­por­tu­ni­ties of­fered by in­for­ma­tion and net­work­ing tech­nolo­gies are used in the in­ter­ests of sus­tain­able, in­te­grat­ed ur­ban de­vel­op­ment geared to­wards the com­mon good. The re­sult­ing smar­tap­pli­ca­tions and con­cepts make a de­ci­sive con­tri­bu­tion to strength­en­ing Dres­den as a live­able, re­source-cre­at­ing and sus­tain­able city and to cre­at­ing a high­er qual­i­ty of life.

Dres­den's knowl­edge and busi­ness land­scape is an es­sen­tial com­po­nent in sup­port­ing our cities in over­com­ing the chal­lenges of cli­mate change, en­er­gy and mo­bil­i­ty tran­si­tion in the fu­ture. This makes Dres­den an ex­treme­ly in­no­v­a­tive and high-per­form­ing busi­ness lo­ca­tion that con­tin­ues to pro­duce young com­pa­nies with pi­o­neer­ing prod­ucts and ser­vices. The tech­ni­cal ex­cel­lence avail­able at Dres­den can make a greater con­tri­bu­tion to sub­stan­tial­ly in­creas­ing the qual­i­ty of life and op­por­tu­ni­ties for par­tic­i­pa­tion and co-de­ter­mi­na­tion for every­one.

Our Vi­sion: Dres­den - cre­ative city for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Re­source cre­ation

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Team and par­tic­i­pants

To­geth­er for a smarte
fu­ture

Dres­den as a city of cul­ture, sci­ence and high tech­nol­o­gy, of­fers an ex­cel­lent ecosys­tem for cre­at­ing pi­o­neer­ing and ex­em­plary so­lu­tions for the (dig­i­tal) city of the fu­ture that is ori­ent­ed to­wards the com­mon good. Both the city ad­min­is­tra­tion of the state cap­i­tal Dres­den and stake­hold­ers from sci­ence, busi­ness and civ­il so­ci­ety are al­ready pur­su­ing a va­ri­ety of Smart-City ap­proach­es in a wide range of con­texts.

In the Of­fice for Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment of the state cap­i­tal Dres­den, the de­part­ment Smart City is work­ing with many part­ners to de­vel­op and test the lat­est tech­nolo­gies for fu­ture-ori­ent­ed ur­ban de­vel­op­ment in or­der to meet cur­rent and fu­ture chal­lenges such as de­mo­graph­ic change, cli­mate pro­tec­tion, en­er­gy tran­si­tion and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly mo­bil­i­ty. In­no­v­a­tive ideas grow in­to suc­cess­ful projects and prod­ucts of to­mor­row at Dres­den. Ex­cel­lent re­search and de­vel­op­ment are close­ly in­ter­wo­ven - and ben­e­fit from the ex­cel­lent fac­tors of the dy­nam­ic state cap­i­tal. Var­i­ous EU sub­si­dies have made the eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment projects pos­si­ble in re­cent years and will con­tin­ue to do so in the fu­ture.

In ad­di­tion, the state cap­i­tal Dres­den has been par­tic­i­pat­ing in the " Smart Cities" mod­el project with the TUD Dres­den Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy since Jan­u­ary 1, 2022. Since 2019, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment has been fund­ing a to­tal of 73 mod­el projects Smart Cities, which were se­lect­ed in three phas­es. The Fed­er­al Min­istry of Hous­ing, Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment and Build­ing acts as the fund­ing body un­der the guid­ing theme "To­geth­er out of the cri­sis: Space for the fu­ture". The state cap­i­tal Dres­den, in part­ner­ship with the co-ini­tia­tor Dres­den Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, was se­lect­ed by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment as part of the Smart Cities mod­el project to ex­ploit the op­por­tu­ni­ties of­fered by in­for­ma­tion and net­work­ing tech­nolo­gies in the in­ter­ests of sus­tain­able and in­te­grat­ed ur­ban de­vel­op­ment. The city's own IT ser­vices com­pa­ny Dres­den is man­ag­ing the project and is work­ing close­ly with the TUD as the main sci­en­tif­ic part­ner.

Strat­e­gy

Paths to the
dig­i­tal city of to­mor­row

The Smart-City strat­e­gy Dres­den was de­vel­oped by the IT ser­vices de­part­ment of the state cap­i­tal Dres­den to­geth­er with the WIS­SENSAR­CHITEK­TUR Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Knowl­edge Ar­chi­tec­ture (TU Dres­den), with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of ex­perts from var­i­ous spe­cial­ist de­part­ments and rel­e­vant stake­hold­er groups from civ­il so­ci­ety, busi­ness and sci­ence.

It was drawn up dur­ing the strat­e­gy phase of the pi­lot project Smart City Dres­den . It for­mu­lates goals, fields of ac­tion and ac­tion plans. Un­til the end of the project in De­cem­ber 2026, the strat­e­gy will be ex­pand­ed and up­dat­ed an­nu­al­ly to re­flect new find­ings and progress.

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Our
project part­ners

Deutsches Zen­trum für Luft- und Raum­fahrt

 

The Ger­man Aero­space Cen­ter (DLR) is the aero­nau­tics and space re­search cen­ter of the Fed­er­al Re­pub­lic of Ger­many. Its re­search and de­vel­op­ment work in aero­nau­tics, space, en­er­gy, trans­porta­tion and se­cu­ri­ty is in­te­grat­ed in­to na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tive ven­tures.

 

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Dres­d­ner Verkehrs­be­triebe

"We move Dres­den." With street­cars, bus­es, moun­tain rail­roads and fer­ries on more than 40 lines.

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EA Sys­tems Dres­den

As en­er­gy ar­chi­tects, we stand for a mod­ern, sus­tain­able and ef­fi­cient en­er­gy sup­ply.

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ER­GO Umweltin­sti­tut GmbH

 

ER­GO Umweltin­sti­tut GmbH com­bines the four spe­cial­ist de­part­ments of En­vi­ron­men­tal Lab­o­ra­to­ry, En­vi­ron­men­tal En­gi­neer­ing, Air Pol­lu­tion Con­trol and Soil and Ground­wa­ter Re­me­di­a­tion Tech­nol­o­gy un­der one roof.

 

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Fraun­hofer IVI

The IVI has many years of ex­pe­ri­ence in the fields of trans­porta­tion sys­tems and elec­tro­mo­bil­i­ty as well as sys­tem in­te­gra­tion and the en­er­gy man­age­ment of var­i­ous stor­age tech­nolo­gies

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In­sti­tute for In­for­ma­tion Sys­tems at Hof Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences

The In­sti­tute for In­for­ma­tion Sys­tems is the cen­tral re­search fa­cil­i­ty for com­put­er sci­ence at Hof Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences.

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Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences for Tech­nol­o­gy and Eco­nom­ics Dres­den

The In­sti­tute of Build­ing in a Chang­ing Cli­mate aims to make a last­ing con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate adap­ta­tion in the con­struc­tion in­dus­try through ap­pli­ca­tion-ori­ent­ed re­search, con­sult­ing and in­no­va­tion and thus to strength­en­ing the re­silience of cities and mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties to en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pacts.

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Leib­nitz In­sti­tute of Eco­log­i­cal Ur­ban and Re­gion­al De­vel­op­ment

We con­tribute to spa­tial de­vel­op­ment that en­ables peo­ple to pros­per with­in eco­log­i­cal lim­its and en­sures plan­e­tary jus­tice.

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Lo­cal Agen­da 21 for Dres­den e.V.

Our mis­sion is to cre­ate and main­tain af­ford­able hous­ing in the state cap­i­tal Dres­den. With this task, we as­sume so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

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meg­gsi­mum (Of­fice for Geoin­for­mat­ics Chris­t­ian May­er)

Soft­ware de­vel­op­ment and ar­chi­tec­ture in the field of web map­ping and ge­o­da­ta in­fra­struc­tures.

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Sach­sen En­ergie

Sach­senEn­ergie AG sup­plies around 300,000 cus­tomers with elec­tric­i­ty, gas, dis­trict heat­ing and drink­ing wa­ter.

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SAE­NA

Sax­on En­er­gy Agency (SAE­NA)

De­vel­ops the OS­TRA lab­o­ra­to­ry in Dres­den, in which mea­sures for in­tel­li­gent mo­bil­i­ty so­lu­tions are de­fined and in­ter­est groups are in­volved. In ad­di­tion, SAE­NA an­a­lyzes the so­cial as­pects of mo­bil­i­ty so­lu­tions by con­duct­ing sur­veys in or­der to trans­fer them to oth­er ap­pli­ca­tion ar­eas and cities.

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Sand­storm Me­dia GmbH

Sand­storm Me­di­a's core busi­ness is the de­vel­op­ment of high­ly scal­able, web-based ap­pli­ca­tions for com­pa­nies. Sand­stor­m's slo­gan is "We pro­gram the fu­ture".

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SAP

The SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form is used as a da­ta plat­form in the project. On this ba­sis, SAP in­te­grates part­ner ap­pli­ca­tions and var­i­ous da­ta sources in or­der to op­ti­mize ar­eas such as event man­age­ment and traf­fic con­trol with the help of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence.

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Soft­ware AG

Soft­ware AG of­fers an in­te­grat­ed busi­ness trans­for­ma­tion suite for process man­age­ment, en­ter­prise ar­chi­tec­ture, ap­pli­ca­tion mod­ern­iza­tion and IoT.

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Ur­ban drainage Dres­den GmbH

Stad­ten­twässerung Dres­den GmbH en­sures the safe dis­charge and treat­ment of waste­water from Dres­den.

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TU Dres­den

The TU Dres­den is one of the largest tech­ni­cal uni­ver­si­ties in Ger­many. With 17 fac­ul­ties in five de­part­ments, it of­fers a wide range of 119 de­gree cours­es and cov­ers a broad spec­trum of re­search.

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ter­restris GmbH & Co KG

Your open source spe­cial­ist for maps and spa­tial in­for­ma­tion sys­tems.

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Volk­swa­gen Group In­no­va­tion

Volk­swa­gen Group In­no­va­tion will de­vel­op, build and test two au­tonomous charg­ing ro­bots. The ro­bots have a bat­tery ca­pac­i­ty of 55 kWh and are de­signed so that the charg­ing plug can be in­sert­ed man­u­al­ly and au­tonomous­ly. The charg­ing ro­bots can be used wher­ev­er it is struc­tural­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly im­pos­si­ble to in­stall a fixed charg­ing sta­tion.

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VONOVIA

Vonovia SE is Ger­many's lead­ing na­tion­wide hous­ing com­pa­ny.

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WID - Liv­ing in Dres­den

Our mis­sion is to cre­ate and main­tain af­ford­able hous­ing in the state cap­i­tal Dres­den. With this task, we as­sume so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

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