The conditional name of the class of products implemented as part of the implementation of
the Safe City concept.

Thus, a comprehensive system for ensuring the life safety of the population of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation should be an integrated automated information and control system, including a set of interacting automated systems of territorial bodies of federal executive bodies, regional executive bodies, local authorities and organizations that solve monitoring tasks on the territory of the Federation subject, forecasting and supporting decision-making on prevention and elimination of natural and man-made emergencies, ensuring public safety, law and order and habitat safety. The central components of the information and communication infrastructure of the KSOBZHN will be the Regional Integration Data Processing Center (RICOD) and the Regional Digital Platform (RCP), which ensure the consolidation of information resources and automated interaction of regional automated systems, the Safe City agro-industrial complex, as well as those municipal and object systems that are not locally integrated into the Safe City agro-industrial complex.

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2020: Video surveillance systems in places of mass stay of people will be connected to the agro-industrial complex "Safe City"

Video surveillance systems in places of mass stay of people will be connected to the agro-industrial complex "Safe City." This became known on August 4, 2020. Read more here.

2019: Rostelecom has become less in need of subcontractors in smart and safe city projects

Rostelecom's strategy in the field of smart and safe cities provides for less subcontracting in favor of expanding its own competence within the company. In March 2019, First Vice President of Rostelecom Vladimir Kiriyenko told TAdviser about this.

We see that these are promising markets and understand that the competencies that we already have now allow us to claim in them a large part of the margin. And these are not one-time projects, but requiring further maintenance, modernization, so we began to move into a service model, "Kiriyenko said.

"Smart City" is the active development of urban infrastructure, improving management and security efficiency, said a representative of Rostelecom. At one time, when complex technological projects arose, for their implementation Rostelecom gathered groups of companies that could jointly implement them. But as they were implemented and the expertise accumulated, Rostelecom began to focus more on its own resources in areas that it considers key, he says.

Vladimir Kiriyenko spoke about the shift of Rostelecom's priority towards its own competencies in some areas "(photo - nag.ru)"

For example, many projects in the part of safe cities, including the installation of photo and video surveillance cameras, citizen-police systems, warning systems are already fully implemented by Rostelecom with subsequent maintenance, says Kiriyenko. - That is, we are developing a technological expertise, and if we believe that this is complementary for us, then we perform it ourselves.

The representative of Rostelecom clarified that this is not about everything at once: the company chooses key areas for itself in the field of safety, comfort in the city, improving management efficiency, and it is on them that it grows its own expertise. In total, more than 20 such areas have been allocated, Vladimir Kiriyenko added.

First of all, video surveillance projects and construction-related projects are a priority, the APK "Safe City" company said. But work is underway to strengthen their own competencies in other areas. In terms of video surveillance, in particular, Rostelecom determined for itself the key competence, including. software Therefore, in 2018, Rostelecom acquired an IT company, "Netris" explains Vladimir Kiriyenko.

In 2014-2017. Rostelecom often attracted, for example, Technoserv to projects on video surveillance and Safe City. Among other large subcontractors in these areas in the same period, in addition to Technoserv, AT Consulting and NVision Group were also.

Smart Cities is one of the key areas within the framework of Rostelecom's new business strategy, the implementation of which began in 2018. The strategy involves the transformation of the company into a provider of digital solutions and services for the state, business and citizens.

The increase in Rostelecom's revenue from smart city projects, in particular, in 2018 amounted to 46%. The company earned 23.2 billion rubles from them out of 320.2 billion rubles in total annual turnover. Revenues from information security services in 2018 quadrupled.

At the same time, Rostelecom, as before, continues to cooperate with equipment and software manufacturers, said Vladimir Kiriyenko. The company is primarily interested in partners who supplement Rostelecom in the framework of complex projects.

As an example of such a partner, Vladimir Kiriyenko cites Rostec, together with which Rostelecom participates in many projects. And in terms of the supply of solutions for weight and size control, photo and video recording, Rostelecom, according to him, cooperates with suppliers of all domestic solutions. In this area, according to Kiriyenko, at the level of the system core - software and hardware systems, at least 50% of the solutions used are domestic.

2018: Project failure in Novgorod region

The practice of the main contractor for the implementation of Safe City can be judged from the example set out in the article State IT Practice: how Rostelecom lobbied, prepared and won a huge tender

History

2024

In Russia, a third of the Safe City cameras are connected to the facial recognition system

As of March 2024, in Russia, every third video surveillance camera out of more than 1 million installed within the framework of the "Safe City" is connected to the facial recognition system. And all cameras that are installed on the roads automatically recognize vehicle numbers. This was announced on March 13, 2024 by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation.

As the head of the Ministry of Finance Maksut Shadayev notes, surveillance cameras installed in Russia monitor safety in places of residence, in public places, at transport facilities and on the roads. At the same time, the possibilities of video surveillance technologies are expanding: systems are being introduced to control the content of landscaping facilities, the cleanliness of streets and the timeliness of garbage collection.

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According to Shadayev, Moscow is the undisputed leader in video surveillance. Since the development of the Safe City system in the capital, the number of registered crimes on the streets has halved, the number of recorded car thefts has decreased by 10 times, and the detection rate of those crimes that continue to be committed has doubled.

In November 2023, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the quality of face and vehicle recognition by photo and video recording systems in the Russian capital reached 99.8%. The video surveillance system a crucial contribution to crime prevention and crime reduction. It includes about 230 thousand video cameras installed at urban infrastructure facilities. The platform has been running a video analytics system using facial recognition technology since 2020. With its help, more than 26 thousand wanted people were identified. Over 13 years (by the beginning of 2024), the total number of apartment thefts in the capital has decreased 35 times, robberies - 10 times, robberies - 14 times. The number of crimes committed in public places has decreased by 2.7 times.^[1]

The National Center for Informatization is trying to recover money from the Ministry of Emergency Situations through the court for the development of the Safe City agro-industrial complex

On February 20, 2024, it became known that the Moscow Arbitration Court would again consider the claim of the National Center for Informatization (NCI; included in the state corporation "Rostec") to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. We are talking about the proceedings related to research and development work (R&D) in the framework of the creation of the hardware and software complex "Safe City."

The R&D agreement was concluded between the NCI and the FKU "Central Base of Measuring Equipment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations" in October 2020. In December 2022, an act of acceptance of scientific and technical products was signed for the final fifth stage of the project. But the Ministry of Emergency Situations refused to pay for these works worth 45.5 million rubles, citing an examination initiated by the ministry. According to the NCI, it was carried out in violation of the requirements of the law in terms of procurement organization (44-FZ).

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According to the Kommersant newspaper, the Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the NCI, obliging the Ministry of Emergency Situations to pay the indicated amount. The decision was supported by the 9th Court of Appeal, but the cassation instance overturned the decision due to the "need for a forensic examination." As a result, the capital's arbitration again begins to consider the case file.

Meanwhile, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) within the framework of the Safe City project opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) against "unidentified persons." Moreover, in this case, the Emergencies Ministry is the injured party. The investigation was preceded by an audit of the legality of spending budget funds, carried out by the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office on the initiative of Daniil Martynov, appointed to the post of adviser to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the summer of 2022. There are no defendants in the criminal case as of February 20, 2024, and the damage is declared for the full value of the contract - more than 670 million rubles.^[2]

2023: Military prosecutors reveal theft of almost all money allocated for R&D when creating smart camera system in Russia

At the end of November 2023, it became known that the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP) revealed signs of fraud on an especially large scale when spending budget funds of the Safe City initiative. We are talking about creating a system of smart cameras in Russia.

According to RBC, fraud is associated with the implementation of research and development work (R&D) within the framework of the project "Development of uniform standards, functional, technical requirements and predictive and analytical solutions of the Safe City hardware and software complex." The materials of the audit were sent by the department of supervision over the implementation of anti-corruption legislation of the GVP to the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow.

When spending funds on the "Safe City" revealed signs of fraud

R&D is the first stage of the Safe City modernization program: we are talking about the development of new technical and legal standards, including the regulatory draft federal law. The lead contractor is the National Center for Informatization (NCI) of the state corporation Rostec, which won a tender in the amount of 670 million rubles in 2020. The customer was the Ministry of Emergency Situations. It is assumed that the new standards created as part of R&D will allow "to ensure the integration of existing security systems in the regions and create clear criteria for building future ones."

It is noted that the prosecutor's check was launched in September 2022 at the request of the adviser to the Minister of Emergency Situations Daniil Martynov. Investigator for particularly important cases Nikita Nikitin interviewed a number of employees of the NCI and the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the framework of the case. After Martynov's appeal, the Ministry of Emergency Situations refused to transfer the NCI money for the final act of the work performed. In December 2022, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, reported in a letter to the Minister of Emergency Situations Alexander Kurenkov about the debt incurred by the department in the amount of 171.3 million rubles.

The total amount of possible damage can reach 620 million rubles. That is, almost all the money allocated for R&D could have been stolen. Based on the results of the analysis of the materials received, the Investigative Committee will decide to initiate a criminal case of fraud or refusal.^[3]

2022

Ministry of Emergency Situations changes the curator of the Safe City system

On September 23, 2022, it became known about the transfer of the deputy head of the MFSViktor Yatsutsenko authority to oversee the Safe City project, within the framework of which systems for monitoring the performance of life support structures (communal and urban infrastructure), transport infrastructure and traffic, environmental situation and public safety are being developed. Previously, First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan was responsible for the construction and development of this hardware and software complex. Read more here.

The regions bordering Ukraine requested subsidies for the Safe City system. Expenses estimated at 13.7 billion rubles

On September 15, 2022, information appeared that the regions bordering Ukraine requested subsidies for the introduction of the Safe City hardware and software complex.

According to RBC, letters with a request to allocate additional funds from the federal budget to the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov were sent by the governors of the Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod and Rostov regions. The authorities of the DPR and LPR did the same, and four other border regions - Crimea, Sevastopol, Voronezh region and Krasnodar Territory - will turn to Manturov later, an informed source told the publication.

Приграничные с Ukraine the regions requested subsidies for the introduction of the Safe City hardware and software complex.

The Governor of the Kursk Region, Roman Starovoit, asked to allocate 1.5 billion rubles for the introduction of Safe City. According to the estimates of the Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov, the region needs 1.75 billion rubles. RBC sources did not say what amounts were requested by other regions. According to the publication, about 13.7 billion rubles must be spent on all municipalities in eight regions. for two years.

According to the publication, the interdepartmental commission discussed the allocation of subsidies for the "Safe City" in two stages. At the same time, the governors requested to allocate these funds directly from the federal budget. The head of the Belgorod region is convinced that the introduction of the "Safe City" will ensure "the appropriate mode of operation of the state authorities of the regional and municipal levels" against the background of a special operation on the territory of Ukraine.

By mid-September 2022, the Safe City system was partially implemented in ten regions, including the Kursk region. AIC "Safe City" collects and processes data on emergency situations coming from various monitoring systems, including from video surveillance cameras, sensors, gas analyzers, etc. In total, the agro-industrial complex should include about 150 systems, which are grouped into four blocks.^[4]

Ministry of Emergency Situations estimated at 15 billion rubles the deployment of the IT system "Safe City" on the border with Ukraine

On June 20, 2022, it became known that the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation estimated at 15 billion rubles the deployment of the Safe City IT system on the border with Ukraine. We are talking about the Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and Sevastopol, Voronezh and Belgorod regions.

Informed sources told Kommersant that the Ministry of Emergency Situations plans to request 15 billion rubles from the federal budget for the implementation of the project in these regions. One of them said that in the context of "a special operation in Ukraine," the introduction of the "Safe City" has become an "extremely urgent task," including taking into account "the multiplied threats of sabotage attacks on civilian infrastructure."

Ministry of Emergency Situations estimated at 15 billion rubles the deployment of the IT system "Safe City" on the border with Ukraine

The project is planned to be deployed in 1.5 years in the Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as the Voronezh and Belgorod regions. In these regions, it is planned to introduce a system that combines special software, industrial motion sensors, video surveillance cameras with analytics and environmental monitoring.

According to the sources of the publication, the key element of the system is video analytics with various scenarios, but most of them are still being developed. The interlocutor of the publication, familiar with the implementation of the system in the regions, noted that the project could raise the level of security in the regions, because it will be growth from a low base.

Now there are low starting indicators, technologies are introduced in the minimum volume, - explained the source of the newspaper.

Igor Afonin, director of the competence center for multimedia and situational centers of T1 Integration, added that the system is not a guarantee of preventing terrorist attacks and threats: it only provides part of the necessary information to authorized services.^[5]

2021

The Ministry of Internal Affairs criticized the project of the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the IT system "Safe City" for ₽97 billion

The Ministry of Internal Affairs criticized the project of the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the IT system "Safe City," the cost of which is estimated at more than 97 billion rubles. This became known on November 25, 2021.

One of the points of the bill concerns the creation of a system operator - the public law company (PPK) "Safe City," which will ensure the construction and operation of a single system. As Kommersant writes with reference to a letter from the former Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Gostev to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the control of the Ministry of Emergency Situations over the spending of funds on the introduction of information systems "may lead to the implementation of control by the Safe City PPK over the activities of the executive authorities in general and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in particular."

The Ministry of Internal Affairs criticized the project of the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the IT system "Safe City" for ₽97 billion

According to a source familiar with the development of the project, the Ministry of Internal Affairs fears that if the PPK is endowed with a controlling function, it will become a monopoly supplier of solutions and equipment for the Safe City in all regions.

A newspaper source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations says that "the position of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not entirely clear." The fact is that the public law company will not act as a control and supervisory body, but as a center of competence, in other words, an auditor, he explained.

That is, if it detects violations or shortcomings in the procurement or implementation of urban security systems, it will report this to the authorized bodies, the prosecutor's office or the Investigative Committee, - said the source of Kommersant.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, in a conversation with the publication, called the creation of the PPK "an objective plus" - the emergence of an external regulator that can influence all participants in the process and control the implementation of the project throughout the country. According to Khinshtein, taking into account all the necessary amendments, the Ministry of Emergency Situations is unlikely to have time to submit a bill to the State Duma for consideration before the end of the autumn session.^[6]

Ministry of Emergency Situations introduces epidemic control technology in cities into the Safe City IT system

In early October 2021, it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to introduce a technology for controlling epidemics in settlements into the Safe City IT system. The ministry told Kommersant about the innovation related to the processing of large amounts of data.

Predictive and analytical models will be used to track the occurrence of epidemics in cities. They are expected to be able to predict the likelihood of an epidemic of influenza viruses, parainfluenza, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, rhinoviruses and influenza A (H5N1) viruses, as well as the dynamics of their spread, an interlocutor close to the Ministry of Emergency Situations told the publication.

Ministry of Emergency Situations integrates epidemic control technology in cities with the Safe City IT system

According to him, when building analytical models, the system will take into account a wide array of data: the specifics of population categories and terrain types, as well as the predicted parameters for the speed of infection, recovery, the number of cases, hospitalized and mortality. But the data collection process remains a problem when starting the system.

Everything is stored in different formats, types and departments, - the interlocutor notes.

According to Pavel Svarnik, director of the Lanit-Integration strategic development center, models for rognosing the development of a pandemic are very necessary, but the spread of the virus is associated with population density in a certain location, peculiarities of interaction between people in crowded places and general immunity. Due to the rapid changes in these parameters, depending on certain factors, it is not so easy to obtain actual values ​ ​ at a certain point in time, he explained.

Chief information officer Director of the International Medical Cluster Roman Gabaidullin admits that such a task can be solved, however, according to him, data is needed from subscriber devices that monitor the sick and those in contact with them. ^[7]

The prosecutor's office will check the implementation of the "Safe City" system in the regions

On September 8, 2021, it became known that the prosecutor's office, on behalf of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, will check the implementation of the Safe City hardware and software system in the regions.

According to Kommersant, citing a source familiar with the preparations for the meeting of the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on public safety, plenipotentiaries in federal districts will be instructed to recommend to the subjects "to provide funds for the creation in the budgets for 2022, operation and development of the agro-industrial complex, "and the prosecutor's office - until July 2022 to conduct checks regarding the legality of spending funds on the introduction of elements of the" Safe City. "

According to the interlocutor of the publication, the Security Council is not satisfied with the pace and quality of the introduction of elements of the agro-industrial complex. Regions are building disparate, inefficient and in some cases non-working systems that are also not integrated. In addition, there are cases when they are introduced by companies affiliated with local administrations, he said.

The prosecutor's office will check the implementation of the "Safe City" system in the country

Local authorities are preparing reports, but a recent selective audit has shown that they are biased. Checking the prosecutor's office will be a detailed audit, - the informant told the newspaper.

Experts interviewed by Kommersant confirmed the existence of several problems in the development of Safe City. The general director of the CRTDmitriy Dyrmovsky group of companies says that each subject has its own models of threats associated with geographical features that must be taken into account: somewhere there is a risk of flooding, and somewhere there is a fire hazard. In some regions, video biometry has become the standard, and in others, these projects have not even passed the pilot stages, he added. The OTR company believes that in the current realities of building the Safe City agro-industrial complex in the regions, the creation of GIS will not meet such problems as 10 years ago.^[8]

Dangerous industries in Russia want to connect to the "Safe City" system

On July 21, 2021, it became known about the government's plans to oblige factories to install equipment at their factories that will transmit readings to the Safe City system. We are talking about cameras, sensors, fire safety devices, gas analyzers, etc.

The innovation is planned for enterprises whose accidents can cause damage not only to employees, but also to nearby residents and organizations, as well as to the environment. Among these are oil production and oil refineries, enterprises of the chemical, metallurgical and varnish industries. According to Rostekhnadzor, by July 2021 there are about 176 thousand similar objects in Russia.

Dangerous industries in the Russian Federation plan to connect to the system "Safe City"

The government decided that the equipment that companies will buy should be Russian. The Ministry of Industry and Trade believes that this will stimulate demand for domestic microelectronics.

The interlocutor of the newspaper noted that the installation of sensors at the facilities will reduce the number of face-to-face checks. This will help reduce the corruption component, he said.

Domestic manufacturers are able to meet demand only partially, says Yuri Tsoi, head of analytics at Softline.

In terms of production sensors for vibrations, pressure, gas analysis, temperature, radiation and humidity, Russian manufacturers can quite compete with foreign ones such as Bosch, Siemens and Honeywell, he admitted.

There is no research reserve in some areas, the expert adds. We are talking, according to him, about bionic sensors, means of prototyping electronic systems and other equipment.

Rostekhnadzor told the newspaper that the department had previously launched an experimental monitoring system for hazardous production facilities, in which 15 large companies take part.^[9]

1 trillion devices will be required to launch the Safe City IT project in the regions

According to the preliminary business plan of the Safe City hardware and software complex project, about 1 trillion devices, including measuring devices, sensors and video surveillance cameras, will be required to launch it in the regions by 2030. This became known on June 7, 2021.

As Kommersant writes with reference to the corresponding document, the composition of the functions and systems of the Safe City has been expanded from video surveillance and photo and video recording to about 150 systems that cover all areas of public security and law and order. An autonomous non-profit organization (ANO) will be created for the development and production of devices. Its participants will be able to apply for subsidies.

To launch the Safe City project in the regions, 1 trillion devices are needed

According to several sources of the newspaper close to the project, each of the enterprises that will be included in the ANO will be responsible for its segment: communication, the release of servers and data storage systems (DSS), the development and release of an electronic component base (ECB), and the preparation of software.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade told the publication that the initiative to develop and implement the project comes from "representatives of the industry," and Safe City itself "will help provide new production volumes for the domestic radio-electronic industry."

""and "" will be responsible for the supply of equipment and the creation of communication infrastructure. RostecRostelecom The authorities want to load the production of servers, DSS and processors, which the co-owner consolidates, Astra Linux GC Denis Frolov whistleblowers say. Kommersant

ARPE Executive Director Ivan Pokrovsky at the same time considers ANO an unobvious tool to support manufacturers.

Assuming that members of the consortium get priority in the allocation of subsidies, it will be necessary to make changes to the criteria for the selection of projects, which are enshrined in a government decree, he said.[10]

"ВЭБ.РФ" will finance the IT project "Safe City" worth 97 billion rubles

On June 1, 2021, it became known the scheme for financing the launch of the Safe City hardware and software complex (APK) in the regions developed by ВЭБ.РФ, Rostec and Rostelecom, the total cost of which is estimated at 97 billion rubles.

According to Kommersant, the partnership participants agreed that ВЭБ.РФ will allocate up to 3 billion rubles for the implementation of the system throughout Russia, Rostec will be responsible for equipment for the agro-industrial complex (sensors, controllers, video recording equipment), and Rostelecom - for the software part and communication. It is assumed that funds for the implementation of the project will be allocated under concession agreements or life cycle contracts.

"ВЭБ.РФ" will finance the problematic IT project "Safe City," which is estimated at 97 billion rubles

The "Rostec" confirmed to the newspaper that by the beginning of June 2021 the project was under study, but refused to disclose its details. The ВЭБ.РФ said that projects in the direction of "Safe and Smart City" "are in the initial stage of development." Rostelecom noted that many regions do not have their own funds for the implementation of large digital infrastructure projects, and the participation of development institutions can give an additional impetus to digitalization.

According to The Bell, earlier the regions were not interested in the development of Safe City video recording systems due to lack of funds and the lack of sanctions for refusing to operate such a hardware and software complex.

Experts interviewed by Kommersant believe that the main problem that slows down the launch of Safe City remains the lack of a budget for digitalization in the regions.

Automation of urban infrastructure management and its security are important tasks. But for many subjects of the federation, it is not a priority, - said Sergey Matusevich, director of web technology development at Artezio.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs recognized the existence of a number of problems related to the fragmentation of the collected data.^[11]

The government is accelerating the introduction of the "Safe City" system after the shooting at the Kazan school

On May 24, 2021, it became known about the intentions of the Government of the Russian Federation to accelerate the implementation of the Safe City system, which should ensure transport and environmental safety, as well as public safety.

According to RBC, the bill "On the unified system" Safe City, "developed at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Legal Analysis under the Government, is sent for approval to relevant departments. In June 2021, it is planned to be submitted to the State Duma.

Russian government accelerates implementation of Safe City system after Kazan school shooting

According to the publication, on May 13, 2021, a meeting of the interdepartmental commission was held, at which the shooting at the Kazan school was discussed. It turned out that street cameras recorded Ilnaz Galyaviev walking along the street with weapons, but could not warn the security forces about this, since they were not connected to the artificial intelligence system. Following the meeting, it was decided to accelerate the adoption of the federal law on the "Safe City."

This system will have to coordinate the activities of federal executive bodies of subjects, local self-government bodies and organizations in the field of creation and functioning of the system. Its main goal is to assemble disparate hardware and software complexes (APCs) responsible for security. As a result, about 150 systems should be included in Safe City, combined into four blocks: transport safety, environmental safety, public safety, urban and communal infrastructure, coordination of services and departments.

The system developers claim that there will be no problems with data leakage from Safe City. The information will be stored on a restricted platform, and only authorized services will be able to use it, they said.

Information security expert Denis Batrankov told RBC that ensuring information security is primarily a question of the volume of investments in the project.

If there are budget funds in Safe City, then everything is not so bad, he said.[12]

The Ministry of Digital Development takes control of the Safe City GIS

In early February 2021, it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Digital Development to take control of the Safe City hardware and software complex (APC), for which the Ministry of Emergency Situations was initially responsible .

According to Kommersant, citing a letter from the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Andrei Chernenko sent on January 22, 2021 to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the department points out the need to work out the separation of responsibilities for the project with the current executors and audit the already launched elements of the Safe City agro-industrial complex and the 112 emergency call system for their integration.

The Ministry of Digital Development takes control of the Safe City GIS

The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Yevgeny Zinichev asked to transfer control over the Safe City to the Ministry of Digital Development. According to the newspaper, the transfer of the project to the Ministry of Digital Development was caused by a conflict between two deputies of Zinichev - Andrei Gurovich and Alexander Chupriyan. Both deputies wanted to lead the work on the system, but they failed. Zinichev's letter to the government with a request to transfer the draft Ministry of Digital Development was prepared by Andrei Gurovich, and Zinichev signed it, according to the source of the newspaper.

Nikolai Komlev, Director of the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises, considers it logical to share responsibility for the implementation of the Safe City project, which, according to him, has existed for six years, but has not yet been launched. According to Komlev, in this project, the Ministry of Digital Engineering can oversee the technological side and issues of formation, as well as interfacing systems, and the Ministry of Digital Development of Emergency Situations - issues of operation and work with content. To reduce the burden on the budget, it would be better to give access to internal data arrays to commercial companies, the expert notes.

The head of the Internet of Things Association Andrei Kolesnikov agrees with this opinion. According to him, the Ministry of Emergency Situations may be responsible for the development of safety standards, methods and the preparation of legislation, and Ministry of Digital Development for the technological unification and control of the system.^[13]

==2020==

Ministry of Emergency Situations asks Mishustin to appoint the Ministry of Digital Development responsible for the creation of the Safe City GIS

On December 28, 2020, it became known about a letter that the head of the MFSEvgeniy Zinichev sent to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin with a proposal to appoint Ministry of Digital Development responsible for coordinating measures for the development of the Safe City agro-industrial complex and the 112 emergency call system.

Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations was going to independently engage in this project, but now asks the government to make Ministry of Digital Development of a curator. The reason is an attempt to reduce budget expenditures, Kommersant writes with reference to Zinichev's letter to Mishustin.

Ministry of Emergency Situations asks Mikhail Mishustin to appoint the Ministry of Digital Development responsible for the development of the Safe City GIS

This appeal also says that the introduction of the Safe City agro-industrial complex within the framework of the project of the same name, the implementation of which began in 2014, although it is being carried out in 40 Russian regions, is being done "unevenly, using different technical solutions." At the same time, the 112 system operates on an ongoing basis in 63 regions, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted.

Earlier, within the framework of the project, it was planned to create a public law company, the key participant of which was supposed to be Rostec. A newspaper source participating in the project noted that an attempt to transfer Safe City under Ministry of Digital Development control could mean curtailing work with Rostec and losing progress in the development of the agro-industrial complex.

The Ministry of Digital Development is not responsible for the safety or prevention of emergencies. In their area of ​ ​ responsibility is just a technical part. Their apparatus will not be able to implement such a complex project, - said the interlocutor.

Director of the Center for Network Solutions "Jet Infosystems" Sergey Andronov considers the transfer of the Ministry of Digital Development of Digital Coordination of Measures for the "Safe City" and "System 112" logical. Ministry of Digital Development, in his opinion, is able to develop a legislative framework and systematize the work already carried out by commercial and state-owned companies.

Oleg Maidansky, director of integrated sales at CROC, considers it a good option to distinguish between the powers of the Ministry of Emergencies and Ministry of Digital Development within the framework of the project.^[14]

The National Center for Informatization began to create GIS for the Ministry of Emergency Situations

As it became known at the end of October 2020, the National Center for Informatization (NCI) became the winner of a tender for research and development work (R&D) related to the creation of uniform standards for the future project of the Ministry of Emergencies for the development of the hardware and software complex (APC ) "Safe City." Read more here.

The creation of GIS for the Ministry of Emergency Situations is suspended due to tender raiding

On August 19, 2020, it became known about the risk of disruption of the project for the development of the state information system "Safe City" for the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Moscow Region stopped the tender for the provision of research and development work (R&D) for the modernization of the Safe City system.

As Kommersant writes with reference to the text of the OFAS resolution, it is necessary to revise the contract worth 690 million rubles. The claims were made by LLC "Labor Resources," which did not participate in the auction in this direction.

The formation of GIS for the Ministry of Emergency Situations is suspended due to tender raiding

The company claims that all contract performers must have a license from the FSB, and the competition must be held behind closed doors, as it is associated with state secrets. A number of complaints were also made about the wording of the terms of reference in the documentation. The antimonopoly department did not satisfy the argument about state secrets, but the rest of the reasons became sufficient to freeze the auction.

According to the Kartoteka.ru website, "Labor Resources" belong to a citizen of Kyrgyzstan Munira Maksutova, and their main activity is the sale of jewelry. The company finished 2018 with zero revenue, there is no more recent data.

According to a source close to the development of Safe City, the antimonopoly service froze the project for at least a month, and "this is a disaster," since there will be no time left to implement the project on time.

The interlocutor of the newspaper explained that the Ministry of Emergency Situations sees in what is happening an attempt to blackmail by structures that want to control the development of the agro-industrial complex. According to Artem Konstantinov, a lawyer at Lemchik, Krupsky and Partners, we can talk about tender raiding, when a company enters the purchase without proper experience, resources and goals and disputes its certain provisions in the FAS to cancel or delay the procedure.^[15]

The structures of the FSO, Rosatom and Rostec claim to develop an IT system for the Ministry of Emergency Rostec

On August 10, 2020, it became known about several applicants for the development of the state information system "Safe City" for the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The department itself intends to conclude a contract with the only supplier - National Technologies LLC (a joint venture of the Avtomatika concern Rostec and the Data Storage Center of Rostelecom PJSC), Kommersant writes with reference to the draft EMERCOM report to the President of Russia.

According to the sources of the publication, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, subordinate to the FSO, proposed itself as the sole executor of the contract. STC "Sistema" In addition, structures Rosatom"," including JSC "," apply for the IT contract. RuSat Infrastructure Solutions A spokesman for this company confirmed the newspaper's intentions.

The structures of the FSO, Rosatom and Rostec claim to create an IT system for the Ministry of Emergency Rostec

For us, this will be, in fact, a continuation of the work that we are now doing at the level of municipalities and a number of regions, RuSat said Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions JSC.

The Association of Software Product Developers (ARPP) "Domestic Software" in early August 2020 sent a letter to the presidential administration with a request to prevent monopolization of the development of the Safe City hardware and software complex (APC). According to the authors of the appeal, the planned provision to the only contractor of a wide range of supplies of goods, works and services will lead to the monopolization of the market for creating an agro-industrial complex to the detriment of the interests of the development of the domestic IT industry.

Transferring such a huge number of tasks to one performer, as a rule, leads to a decrease in the efficiency of their implementation, at least due to the presence of industry specifics. And at the same time it leads to the consolidation of a huge number of budgetary resources in one hand, - said Renat Lashin, executive director of ARPP "Domestic Software."

The Ministry of Emergency Situations told Kommersant that the preparation of proposals to identify a single supplier is only one of the possible options that are being considered by the ministry by August 10, 2020.^[16]

Development of an IT system for emergencies for 97 billion rubles

On July 17, 2020, it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to create a state information system (GIS), which will become a single contour for disparate data on emergencies. Initial costs for the development and implementation of the technology in 2021-2022 are estimated at 14 billion rubles, and the total costs by 2030 may amount to 97.1 billion rubles.

The creation of this GIS is planned to modernize the hardware and software complex (APC) "Safe City," designed to combat emergency situations (ES). By mid-July 2020, more than 16 billion rubles were spent on this project, and the total costs of creating security systems of various levels exceeded 150 billion rubles, according to the report of the first deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan, sent to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov (Kommersant has a document ).

Ministry of Emergency Situations creates an IT system for emergencies for 97 billion rubles

The source of the publication spoke about the problems in the agro-industrial complex "Safe City":

Now dispatchers in the regions are not employees who are able to quickly make decisions based on the situation and constantly incoming data, but people from the street. Imagine a fire in a forest in Siberia. Information about this comes to the dispatcher, for example, from cameras and thermal sensors. It is scattered and does not give a complete picture. The dispatcher, without ready-made and modern scenarios, himself subjectively decides what to do and where to call. Information reaches the head of the municipality. He is also not connected with ready-made scenarios and may, for his own benefit, not inform the leadership of the region about the incident, hoping to fix everything on his own. As a result, a small fire that could be extinguished in a day turns into a giant forest fire.

According to Dmitry Zaitsev, head of the National Information Systems Group of Companies, the main problem of the agro-industrial complex is the transfer of information from a single dispatch service to departments that eliminate emergencies: services operate according to different standards and protocols, and in order to automate work, you need at least a single conceptual apparatus that has not been developed.^[17]

2018: Development of a single platform for the Safe City, ERA-GLONASS and 112 systems

On April 24, 2018, Rostec State Corporation announced that the Avtomatika concern, which is part of it, is working to create the Videogard technological platform, which will allow combining the Safe City, ERA-GLONASS and 112 systems. The development as a whole is designed to minimize the response time to emergency situations and increase the safety of citizens, the state corporation noted. Read more here.

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