Why to Madrid analytics and Big Data?

In July, 2014 it became known that Madrid will use IBM Smarter Cities technologies for improvement of work of the services provided to citizens by the city administration and also operation of instruments of communication and interaction with inhabitants. The division of IBM, INSA, claims that this project is the largest in the field of creation of a service ecosystem in Spain, its main goal consists "in improvement of city life for all three-million population of Madrid".

Project cost - 14.7 million euros, the basis of the implemented solutions will be formed by technologies for the analysis and management of Big Data. With their help the city administration will manage work with each service provider and as appropriate to pay it depending on the service layer. It is about contractors of administration who monitor a status of streets, lighting, an irrigation, green plantings, perform cleaning of the territory and export and also waste recycling.

Madrid is included into the five of the most densely inhabited municipalities of Europe. For reference, the city produces about 1 million tons of household waste a year, and its inhabitants consume about 15 million cubic meters of water in 12 months. Besides, the city is engaged in management of multiple property assets, for example, own park from 1.7 million transport units, more than 250 thousand lighting instruments and also monitors a status of 287 thousand trees.

Ana Botella, the mayor of Madrid, says that innovations will allow to improve quality of city services and, as a result, the standard of living of citizens

During the project 300 key performance indicators of work of city services based on which 1.5 thousand different checks and measurements will be daily performed are developed for specially selected inspectors. Besides, the city will begin use of the innovation tekhnologicheskly platforms under the name Madrid iNTeligente (MiNT) - Smarter Madrid. The platform will receive and process the data of residents transferred by means of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices and also through social networks. For example, if the citizen sees the broken fire hydrant, he will be able to send it a photo and data on location to special service which will be obliged to fix quickly a problem and to inform the applicant on its solution.

The model developed for Madrid will be offered as a sample to other European capitals, Marta Martínez, the head of IBM in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel said.

In addition to the signals transmitted by citizens, the intellectual platform will be able to process the data of sensors, special devices, tracking cameras, data loaded by inspectors and suppliers and also these HRM systems, the working schedule and geographic information systems that will give the chance of integrated management of all city infrastructure by the different processes, departments, the municipal agencies and other parties involved in process of service of city life. In total in MiNT the control of 5 million to assets of Madrid will be transferred, beginning from swans in parks and finishing with tracking cameras behind traffic and also contracts about service suppliers.

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