Plaza Cetina is the first point of the five in which the City enables this free art device, which operates through 100% clean energy and renewable.
Jose Guillen: "The citizens themselves choose the preferred location of shippers, through a participatory process, which opened today on the website of the City www.murcia.es".
Murcia has thus become the first city in Spain and Europe in the use of mini-hydropower applied to telecommunications in public roads, Smart initiatives in Murcia
Modernization councilors Administration, Urban Quality and Participation, Jose Guillen and Development, Roque Ortiz, opened today in the first place Cetina Smart charger Murcia, a free information service to citizens and load mobile in the street which operates from the power of potable water.
"This is a next-generation device freely accessible to all citizens, which allows battery charging mobile phones and tablets using the energy of water, which is a local energy advantage, 100% clean and renewable," said Jose Guillen.
Operation is safe and innovative: the Smart Murcia charger installed outdoors, enjoy the flow and pressure of the drinking water to generate electricity through a picoturbina and stored in batteries.
"The energy generated can feed nine mobile phone chargers and in the coming days, the service with a free wireless network access information, which may consult the website of the City Hall and other municipal services will be expanded," said the councilor Development, Roque Ortiz.
Murcia has thus become the first city in Spain and the European environment in the use of mini-hydropower applied to telecommunications in the street, an R + D + i which is part of the initiatives is Smart Murcia pushing the council, which currently chairs the Spanish Network of Intelligent Cities (RECI).
Furthermore, the device will, in the coming weeks, to a total of five points in the city and will be the citizens themselves who choose the preferred location of shippers, through a participatory process, which opened today on the website of City of Murcia and the web of ALEM (www.energiamurcia.es) "Participation ahead Councilman Jose Guillen.
The selection of locations on those neuralgic points of the city, will be made taking into account the technical characteristics required for the installation of the staffs, according to the most appropriate points of the water supply network.
Smart Murcia: innovation serving people
"Murcia is the seventh capital of Spain and is already a leader in Smart Cities initiative," said Jose Guillen, who added that "the overall strategy involves bridging Smart Murcia governance, innovation and public participation, to improve public services and quality of life of people with innovative and cutting-edge projects, like the one presented today. "
In addition to recharge phones and tablets free of charge, the charger allows Smart City Murcia provide information of interest to citizens, through the screens that include appliance.
The art magazine, whose system was developed through a research project led by Aguas de Murcia, poses no cost to the public purse, as it is this body which fully financed the initiative.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia