Implantação de ferramentas de smart cities na infraestrutura de abastecimento de água do campus Pampulha da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract

University campi can be used as an experimentation environment in the development of solutions for environmental sustainability by the smart cities concept, where Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and new digital technologies, integrated with existing infrastructures, allow the survey information in real time and the management of this information. ICTs are boosters of sustainable economic growth, contributing to improve life quality and more efficient management of natural resources through participatory governance. The main motivation for this work, it comes from the observation of deficiencies in the monitoring sustainability indicators at UFMG, according to the vision of the Department of Environmental Management, Pro-Rectory of Administration. In this sense, the present work seeks to propose suggestions for the implementation of tools based on the concept of smart cities and intelligent campi that enable improvements in the monitoring of environmental indicators such as water consumption, contributing to the environmental sustainability of the University. Therefore, the methodology proposed in this work starts from the literature review on smart cities and the use of the framework developed by the University of Rome, composed of a model with six structured phases that proposes strategies based on solutions found in academic works and in projects already developed at other Universities, considering the Pampulha campus as a potential for the implementation of intelligent solutions to improve their demands and deficiencies, in addition to optimizing their services. The areas used in the research were related to Governance/Management and Infrastructure in relation to water consumption indicators, and finally, as a result, four strategies are presented to improve these deficiencies using technologies applicable to smart campi in the sense of building a Pampulha Smarter Campus and environmentally sustainable at UFMG.