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After the Smart City pilot-project in Bucharest launched in 2016, Telekom Romania chose Constanta to launch the next one, in line with the strategic objective of the Deutsche Telekom Group of expanding its operations in this area, a press release informs.
Together with the Mayor of Constanţa, Decebal Fagadau, and representatives of Telekom Romania top management, the guests of the event were shown the Smart City solutions which the Constanţa City Hall will benefit of. These include a smart parking, respectively a street lighting solution, based on the LED technology, a tower with multiple components such as a jack for recharging electrical cars and sensors for the monitoring of the environment, as well as free Wi-Fi.
“The Smart City projects are the proof that the public sector answers with openness to the need of new services of public interest, which provide new benefits for the citizens and decrease the operating costs for the City Hall. Telekom Romania, as system integrator, acts as an interface between the specific needs of the local administration and the citizens, on one hand, and, on the other, the technological solutions which can be integrated to meet these needs. Thus, together, we manage to generate more added value for the citizens”, Ovidiu Ghiman, Chief Commercial Officer, business segment, Telekom Romania, said.
The solutions implemented by Telekom Romania in the area of the Sports Hall in Constanța consist in equipping a parking lot of 50 places with sensors connected to a platform processing in real time the data regarding the places’ availability, five lighting poles using the LED technology, a multifunctional tower integrating nine functionalities and free Wi-Fi connectivity for the persons passing by.
The solutions are part of the concept “Smart Street” addressing urban needs such as finding fast a parking lot, efficient lighting, public safety, internet access, electrical recharging for cars, the quality of the environment, listing in real time useful information for the citizens etc.
The smart parking solution addresses primarily the drivers who can see the available parking lots in real time through the applications available for mobile phones, thus reducing the time spent in search of a parking space and implicitly the decrease of traffic.
The municipality will be able to monitor in real time, through a dedicated platform, the level of occupancy and, based on the statistics generated, can decide efficiently where the parking lots should be supplemented.
The solutions are based on the IoT (Internet of Things) concept, according to which the sensors embedded in the solutions communicate online through smart interfaces. This concept, gaining momentum also locally, brings significant improvements in domains such as transportation, public safety and environment monitoring, without adding a significant number of pieces of equipment to the already existing infrastructure. In the same time, the new pieces of equipment provide reports for the saving levels and maintenance reports in real time.
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