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José Ballesta today received the 50 representatives of the national technology-based companies that will compete in the bidding for the smart city project 'MiMurcia', the most ambitious of all Spain, with a budget of 8 million euros.
The visit started from the Abenarabi building, where the CPD (Data Processing Center) is located, and the CEUS (Unique Monitoring Center), the 'smart' brain of the city, will be located.
Later, they toured the streets, gardens and spaces of the city where the more than 300 intelligent systems and technological components of the 'MiMurcia' project will be implemented.
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, today received the more than 50 representatives of the most important national technology companies and responsible for the state agency Red.es, who have traveled, along with municipal technicians, different points of the city to test the implementation of the more than 300 intelligent systems and technological components of the 'MiMurcia' project, the most ambitious of all Spain compared to a total of 111 cities, with a budget of 8 million euros.
In the building of Abenarabi -which will host the CEUS room, the brain 'smart' of the city- José Ballesta wanted to highlight four essential elements before the heads of the different technology-based companies nationwide, which will attend the tender of the 'MiMurcia' project, whose deadline for submitting offers ends on October 22.
"In the first place, the Murcia project is not synonymous with quality, but with excellence and, therefore, we look for excellence in the offers that they present.
In the second place, we are not looking for bidders but loyal partners, companies that want to accompany us in this project and go beyond the bases that we have presented to them, contributing innovation and development.
In third place, we offer you the city of Murcia as an experimental laboratory to make your development.
We want Murcia to become a leading environment in which they show what they are capable of doing.
Finally, the municipality of Murcia is an area of ​​freedom, business freedom, creation, innovation.
We believe in that freedom and we want it to be applied in this project, "said the mayor.
Also, José Ballesta said that "cities are places of coexistence in which human beings connect and that humanist sense is what governs the 'MiMurcia' project, to connect the nearly 500,000 inhabitants that make up the municipality of Murcia, the seventh capital of Spain and among the hundred first cities of Europe ".
CEUS and CPD
The visit started at the Abenarabi building, where they toured the Data Processing Center (CPD), the technical room where the City's computer systems are currently located and which will be implemented thanks to the 'MiMurcia' project.
Abenarabi is also the place where the Single Monitoring Center (CEUS) will be located, the control panel of all the new intelligent systems interconnected in a network.
It will be an open door space that will serve as a 'testing laboratory' in which the technological solutions relating to the different management areas of the municipality will be tested: traffic and public transport, parks and gardens, safety on public roads, etc .;
a meeting point for citizens, companies and other Administrations, where technological solutions for the municipality will be presented.
Subsequently, the technicians toured the streets, gardens and different areas of the city where the more than 300 intelligent systems and technological components of the 'MiMurcia' project will be implemented in the coming months and will involve the extension of WiFi coverage in plazas, parks and gardens, panels that report on free parking spaces, intelligent pedestrian crossings and stations for environmental monitoring to measure air quality, among many other planned actions.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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