On March 13, the deadline for submitting bids for the project for the installation of video surveillance in various streets of the El Carmen neighborhood ends.
The project, which was approved by the Governing Board, is the first initiative that is tendered in the Smart City project of the DUSI strategy, and its installation will provide real-time information on incidents in the streets, in order to improve the efficiency in management.
The main objective of this initiative, requested by the merchants of the neighborhood and that was transferred to the Municipal Board, is to increase the subjective sense of security and deter the commission of infractions, in addition to controlling traffic in the area to respond to concrete needs.
To this end, an innovative system of 15 state-of-the-art video cameras will be installed in different streets.
The aim is to change the concept of surveillance cameras, such as equipment that merely captures images, to an intelligent system of video sensors that, by means of video analytics, are able to inform in real time of the state of the city and, in this way, improve the efficiency in its management.
It is an initiative promoted through public-private collaboration, business and university, to be a pioneer in the field of Smart Cities adapting technology to the specific needs of the municipality and its singularities.
In this way, the management of the events of video surveillance images will be done in the Local Police Control room in an intelligent way, thus contributing to 'ensure citizen coexistence, the eradication of violence and the peaceful use of roads and spaces public, as well as to prevent the commission of crimes, misdemeanors and infractions related to public safety, "explained Lola Sanchez, Councilor for Traffic and Security.
The cameras, whose location will be marked, will record images that can only be seen by Local Police and that will be deleted once it is observed that there is no crime commission.
In the event that it has occurred, the recording will be sent to the judicial or administrative authority to establish the criminal or administrative responsibilities that may have occurred.
This system will be installed in the González Conde square, Paseo Marqués de Corvera corner with Capuchinos street, street Sta. Úrsula corner with street
Marqués de Ordoño, Capuchinos street corner with Mateos street, Álvarez Quintero street corner with Capuchinos street, Galdo street corner with Álvarez Quintero street, Diego Hernández street corner with Santa Úrsula street, Alarilla street corner with Pascual Abellán street, Industry Square, Floridablanca corner street with Avda. Juan Antonio Perea, street Cuartel de Artillería corner with Cartagena street, street Cartagena corner with street González Cebrián, street Aladreros corner with street Jumilla, entrance to the Floridablanca Garden by street Hernandez of the Eagle, and Garden of Floridablanca lateral to street Princess.
The cameras will be professional high-end, high quality in terms of image (color, noise and resolution) in dark conditions and backlight compensation.
This pilot experience will be developed in El Carmen and will be transferred in later phases to other neighborhoods in the urban area.
The city currently has 28 cameras installed in public spaces, but in all cases they are located in gardens such as the Antonio Campillo sculpture park, Fofó garden, Salitre garden, La Seda, Constitution garden, Malecón, Ronda Sur and Tres Cups.
This contract will be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union, within the framework of the Operational Program for Sustainable Growth 2014-2020, with the DUSI Murcia IT Strategy: Innovation + Tradition.
It is the first to be tendered within this initiative, for an amount of 113,000 euros.
The call was published yesterday in the BORM, ending the deadline for submission of offers on March 13 and the deadline for execution is estimated at two months.
Within the DUSI strategy, the e-administration and Smart City action line has a total investment of € 1,830,591.36, 80% with ERDF funds and 20% municipal co-financing.
The City of Murcia has opted to establish Murcia as a reference Smart City, with the aim that citizens must experience the improvement in the quality of life, innovation and improvement in the management of the services of the city.
'The Smart Murcia strategic plan - explained the Councilor for Modernization, Urban Quality and Participation, José Guillén - aims to implement an integrative management model that optimizes the different municipal services and resources, with the key that the citizen does not conceive a network of watertight and independent services, but an open, interconnected, close and agile City Council, geared to your day-to-day needs ".
In this regard, it should be noted that the City of Murcia attended the call of Red.es for granting aid for the development of the smart cities program of the Digital Agenda for Spain with the project 'MiMurcia: Your Town Hall Intelligent, Close, Open and Innovative ', along with a total of 111 proposals that added investments for an amount of 265 million euros.
The total budget of the project amounts to almost 8 million euros, of which 31% comes from municipal financing and the rest from FEDER Funds.
The MiMurcia project focuses on the development of an ICT platform that allows the City Council to make available to the citizen its different services and sources of information, in a personalized, contextualized and georeferenced way, in order to make it reach, at every moment and situation, the information that needs according to the type of interaction that the citizen wants and needs.
The City Council promotes this project through public-private collaboration, business and university, to be a pioneer in the field of Smart Cities adapting technology to the specific needs of the municipality and its singularities, which will be deployed with pilot tests that will be They will carry out in the field of public transport, traffic information or parking availability.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia