Seville tackles Easter with pioneering Smart City project

In this pilot experience, which includes a adjustable lighting system and mechanisms for controlling people's influx and video surveillance, Bosch participate, Telephone, Cisco and Ferrovial.

The Seville City Council, through the Economics delegations, Trade and Institutional and Security Relations, Mobility and Major Holidays, as well as the Technological Modernization Area, has driven a Smart City project, that will be launched at Easter, which includes a special adjustable lighting system and influx control mechanisms for people, among other measures.

"We have chosen one of the main appointments of the city and in which the greatest concentration of audiences occurs, Easter, to ensure that this experience serves to strengthen the safety of both the audience and the sororities, and with the intention of testing this pioneering project in data processing and in the coordinated management of the city that can be used in other major events", explains Juan Espadas, mayor of Seville.

This pilot experience stems from public-private collaboration with four innovation-related companies: Bosch, Telephone, Cisco And Ferrovial. "Four top companies linked to innovation that will develop in Seville this Smart City pilot project coordinated by the City Council and in which each of them has put its technology at the service of the city", says Swords.

The project includes the development of a special adjustable lighting system, as well as mechanisms for controlling the influx of people coordinated through a digital platform in eleven priority areas of action. These areas are: St. Francis Square, Dos de Mayo Street, Constitution Avenue, Fishmonger's Square, The Cuesta del Rosario, Plaza del Salvador, Cradle, Bridge and Pellon, Bell, O'Donnell, Saint Paul and Villegas-Francos.

The pilot project includes a Smart platform that integrates each of the elements of the device in order to process the information and make the necessary decisions at all times.

The infrastructure is made up of 18 cameras for the capacity of public roads and the recording of images for the analysis and detection of targets (all authorized and signposted), 173 Led luminaires in whose graduation can be intervened for reasons of public order or transit of sororities through certain streets considered to be of historical tradition, And, finally, telecommunications are also included for connecting each device to the Smart platform.

This technology will allow real-time monitoring of each of the areas coordinating cameras and street lighting with a digital platform, apply a lighting system that can be modified in intensity and color temperature, and replace the luminaires with Leds in the intervention areas.

Smart City Platform

For the development of this project, each company has provided a number of tools. Like this, Cisco has provided the Smart City platform, What, using Internet of Things technologies, will allow in real time and through a visual dashboard to check the information of all the services monitored, including counting and detection cameras, ultra-high-resolution video surveillance.

He has also participated in street lighting, that through a communications network can be modified, intensity and color temperature, to adapt to different situations. This information will be consolidated on the screens of the control center where, about a city plan, can be consulted by the various municipal services.

Video surveillance, lighting and connection

For its part, Bosch cameras will allow the viewing of images and the recording of them, and incorporate artificial intelligence to provide live information related to the influx of people or vehicles through different accesses, the degree of occupation of streets or squares, detection of crowds or other possible incidents such as people running, vehicles driving at some speed or in the opposite direction.

Regarding the luminaires implemented by Ferrovial, it should be noted that they aim to, the use of public lighting as a safety element in the face of large concentrations of people who could lead to an alteration of the order, enhancing its intensity and collaborating in the identification of the causes of this alteration and in the transmission of tranquility to the population.

Finally,, Telefónica will provide the fiber connection of each of the devices providing a secure network to the whole system, which highlights the high quality of its infrastructure in the city of Seville for the development of Smart City projects.

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