Digital Primorye (smart city in the Far East)

Smart city: development in Russia

Main article: Smart city: development in Russia

2023: Parking meters stopped working in Vladivostok due to EU sanctions

In Vladivostok, due to sanctions from the European Union, parking meters temporarily stopped working. This was announced on October 1, 2023 by the Digital Primorye company (operator of a paid parking space in Vladivostok) with reference to the manufacturer of parking equipment Flowbird.

European Union sanctions against Russia have been intensifying over the past few months. From now on, these sanctions prevent us from continuing our business relationship with your company. We are sorry to end these good business relationships, but in the current conditions we can no longer maintain them, - says Flowbird's letter to Digital Primorye.

Parking meters of the company "Digital Primorye"

Parking meters have been disconnected from support since October 1, 2023. In this regard, devices for non-cash payment of parking in Vladivostok will be temporarily disabled. By the beginning of October 2023, the company is analyzing and assessing the timing of the modernization of parking equipment. Motorists are asked to use other payment methods: this is the Digital Primorye application, the primorsky-portal.ru website or SMS.

Paid parking lots in Vladivostok have been operating since November 2022. The cost of an hour is from 35 to 75, rubles parking on two sections of the streets in the center Vladivostok will cost 100 rubles per hour. The fine for non-payment of parking is 1.5 thousand rubles. The project manager Stanislav Zhuravlev, assessing the work of parking meters, admitted that during the implementation of the project it was necessary to solve the issues of import substitution of equipment. He noted that the problems were with almost all hardware complexes. As a result, the company left only Swedish parking meters, spare parts for them were supplied through Kazakhstan as part of a "parallel import."

By early October 2023, the European Union agreed and adopted 11 packages of sanctions against Russia after the start of a military operation in Ukraine. As a result, the EU countries stopped selling equipment and electronics in Russia, including the one used to create and repair parking meters. Russia considers the sanctions illegal.^[1]

2022: Creation of a zone for cargo and passenger traffic using drones

In early December 2022, it became known about the creation in Primorye of a zone for cargo and passenger transportation using drones. Purchases of equipment have already begun.

We have already purchased the first two drones: one Russian, one Chinese. They will arrive soon, we will make trial flights from the airport, probably somewhere in the suburbs. These are big drones. [Designed] for two passengers, or one pilot, one passenger. Just in case, at first there will be a pilot and a passenger, - said the head of Digital Primorye Stanislav Zhuravlev.

In Primorye, create a zone for cargo and passenger transportation using drones

Tests, during which drones will deliver goods from Vladivostok airport to remote areas of the region, will be held at an altitude of 300-500 m.

One UAV is electric, the other requires fuel. The cost of flight, according to Stanislav Zhuravlev, is very low, the fuel consumption is small. How much such a trip could cost for a passenger or for the owner of the cargo is not specified.

{{quote 'This does not work in working mode in any country in the world, in United Arab Emirates, in, in, in China, USA France Germany in, in, wherever it works, it works in pilot mode, so passengers are usually transported free of charge, - said the head of Digital Primorye. }} The price of the devices by the beginning of December 2022 is also still not clear, but it will probably not be cheap, because, for example, a Russian drone is not a serial one, it was assembled in the Moscow region specifically for this project.

It is noted that the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation supported the idea of ​ ​ making Primorsky Krai a pilot zone for cargo and passenger transportation by drones.

Digital Primorye is a multi-level concession in which investors, the regional government, four municipalities of the region - Vladivostok, Artem, Ussuriysk and Nakhodka participate.^[2]

2021: Attracting 2 billion rubles from the VEB and RVC fund

On April 28, 2021, it became known that the Far Eastern High-Tech Fund (DFVT, investors - Rusnano, VEB.DV and RVC) will invest up to 2 billion rubles in Smart City projects in the Far East. We are talking about the Digital Primorye project, the implementation of which is carried out by the company of the same name with the support of the government of the Primorsky Territory and the administration of the cities of Vladivostok, Artem, Nakhodka, Ussuriysk.

By the end of April 2021, DFVT had already invested about 200 million rubles in Digital Primorye. Also, the fund, as its general director Ruslan Sarkisov told RBC, intends to attract up to 15 billion rubles of private and bank financing for these initiatives.

VEB and RVC Fund invests 2 billion rubles in the Digital Primorye project

The Digital Primorye information system will support more than 30 services that will become available to residents of Primorsky Krai, including:

• A single card of a resident of Primorsky Krai, with which you can pay for transport travel, receive discounts and social benefits;
• Unified portal "Digital Primorye" for the population and business. The portal will be an analogue of the capital's mos.ru: here it will be possible to receive up-to-date information and services in various fields, including in the field of education, health care, tourism, housing and communal services, culture in both state and private organizations and services;
• Student card (as well as bracelets and key fobs) to pay for travel, taking into account benefits, payment for food, access to educational institutions, etc.;
• "Smart" heated stops, "smart" traffic lights, "smart" pedestrian crossings, organized parking spaces, online public traffic schedule services, transport traffic monitoring service, traffic violation and weight and size control services video conferencings , service in schools, school access control service, special terminals for tourists.^[3]

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