THE TOP 5 SMART CITIES
SMART CITIES
THE TOP 5 SMART CITIES
• Shanghai
• Seoul
• Barcelona
• Beijing
• New York
One of the areas RAFX is focused on is the digitalisation of processes and practices right across the station . At Leeming , these can be experimented with before scaling across the rest of the service .
Group Captain Blythe Crawford OBE is Station Commander at RAF Leeming . He is also the driving force behind RAFX and Astra . “ People talk about digital bases , they talk about smart cities , but to do that you need a digital backbone and what we ' ve tried to do here is to make ourselves a lot more connected ,” he says . “ We have business internet across the entire station . We ' ve also recently installed our own private 5G network to create an Internet of Things platform and backbone that covers the entirety of the station , which allows me to connect anything to anything else right across the site .”
Crawford also explains how the digital backbone can help RAF Leeming meet its ambitious carbon net-zero by 2025 target by creating a digital twin of the base , brimming with smart sensors on energy management systems and waste systems to create a single dashboard . sustainabilitymag . com 79