9.2.2016
- The Smart City pilot project is worth more than HRK 1.5 million
- Installation of state-of-the-art magnetic parking sensors has begun on 30 parking spaces at Obala Stjepana Radića
- The project will go live on 15 March 2016
Croatia's largest Smart City pilot project, worth more than HRK 1.5 million, has been kicked off by Hrvatski Telekom and its partners.
“Thanks to this pilot project, Dubrovnik will also officially become the first Smart City centre of Hrvatski Telekom in terms of innovation, testing, development, but also in terms of sales. By this project, HT will take a top position among regional and European technology leaders with regard to the promotion, introduction, and implementation of the Internet of Things/Smart City technology framework. It was exactly our investment in the development of mobile and fixed infrastructure, as well as increase of capacity for broadband Internet access and IP transformation that enabled us to start implementation of such a challenging project,” said Davor Tomašković, President of the Management Board of Hrvatski Telekom.
Work has begun at Obala Stjepana Radića, with the installation of state-of-the-art magnetic parking sensors on 30 parking spaces that will provide drivers with real-time parking space vacancy information.
Parking info screens displaying information on available parking spaces will be positioned above the traffic roads; during Phase 1, they will include information about spaces already fitted with sensors, and public underground parking. Smartphone owners will be able to use an application that will provide information on the actual vacancy status of all city parking areas.
City safety will be improved thanks to multisensor video surveillance that will record traffic violations, speeding, overtaking, and unauthorised use of the left lane, but illegal parking will also be monitored.
Furthermore, the Smart City project will also provide citywide free of charge Wi-Fi of high speed and throughput (50 Mbit/s). In addition, this project includes a system of remote-controlled public city lighting management and regulation of lighting intensity and consumption of public lighting depending on movement of pedestrians and motor vehicle traffic in the vicinity of the lighting. When there is no traffic around, public lighting will function with decreased intensity, and if movement is detected, lighting intensity will increase.
Moreover, numerous sensors will be installed to monitor air quality and other parameters affecting the environment. During Phase 1, such information will be available to the academic and research community, as well as to public health institutions, and during Phase 2, the plan is to provide specific information to the public in an appropriate manner.
All systems will be interconnected by a joint platform, but also connected to legacy systems already employed by the City; a part of the information will be available to all those who, by their knowledge and experience, can make each individual solution even more innovative, such as local startups and models for development and promotion of entrepreneurship.
Along with Hrvatski Telekom, other well-known global and national technology partners are involved as project owners: CISCO Systems, Sensity, Zumtobel, RAO, Mobilisis, SmartSense, Elektroteam, and many others, and HT is constantly extending the partner network, incorporating renowned national companies and startups that are able to make a quality contribution to the development of this technological framework.
The citizens, being the key users of such infrastructure, will also be involved in the evaluation of this project, by means of a special volunteer body of experts to be appointed by the City, consisting of a team of IT experts living and working in Dubrovnik.
The project will go live on 15 March 2016.