Milan District Heating & Smart Network Monitoring (A2A)
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Leaks along roughly 390 km of heating pipe are hunted by flying over the city at night with a thermal camera. The real-time sensors and smart valves exist so far only in one east Milan pilot.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Milan · 🔌 Smart grid & energy guide · ⚡ Energy projects
A2A runs Italy's largest district-heating network in Milan — roughly 390 km of pipes serving over 248,000 equivalent apartments — fed by recovered waste heat, chiefly from the Silla 2 waste-to-energy plant and cogeneration, and increasingly from heat pumps and data-centre heat recovery (a Retelit/DBA waste-heat feed came online in early 2026). A growing data layer sits on top of the pipes: night-time aerial thermography maps the whole network to pinpoint leaks, while the LOMBHE@T pilot in east Milan fits real-time sensors and smart valves to optimise flow. The sensorised control layer remains partly at pilot scale on a large, otherwise conventional network.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Milan District Heating & Smart Network Monitoring (A2A)” — Milan, Italy. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/milan-district-heating/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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