Smart city technologies in the Moscow region

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2024

Smart cameras in the Moscow region began to recognize and fine drivers for parking cars at garbage containers

In the Moscow region, the Safe Region system, which uses artificial intelligence technology, began to automatically record violations of parking rules near container garbage collection sites. This became known on October 28, 2024. Since June 2024, almost 400 cameras of the system control the area around these sites, recognizing cars parked in prohibited places, and send data for further execution of fines.

According to the press service of the Ministry of State Administration, Information Technology and Communications of the Moscow Region, the project is aimed at preventing blocking the access of garbage trucks to containers and eliminating inconveniences for local residents. Minister of State Administration, Information Technologies and Communications of the Moscow Region Nadezhda Kurtyanik noted that artificial intelligence not only fixes parking near container sites, but also reads state vehicle numbers, which speeds up the process of identifying violators and subsequent prosecution.

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The system works in automatic mode, analyzing the video stream from the cameras every day. If violations are detected, tasks are automatically formed for inspectors who confirm the fact of the violation and draw up a protocol on an administrative offense. During the work of the project, more than 1.5 thousand cases of violations were revealed, in respect of which decisions were issued for a total amount of fines of about ₽620 thousand.

The project is part of the digitalization program of the Moscow region, aimed at introducing modern technologies to improve the quality of the urban environment.^[1]

How street cameras in the suburbs reveal illegal trade

In the Moscow region, a video surveillance system equipped with artificial intelligence began to identify the facts of unauthorized street trade. By July 2024, more than 6.6 thousand cameras were connected to this system, which is 30 times higher than in 2023.

The innovation was implemented within the framework of the Safe Region project. Artificial intelligence analyzes the video stream in real time, identifying signs of illegal outlets by a number of characteristics, including their location, appearance, and the nature and conditions of the goods on offer.

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After a potential violation is detected, the system saves the video frame and transmits the information to the administration of the corresponding city district. Then the responsible performer goes to the place to check and confirm the fact of violation using the mobile application "Checks of the Moscow Region."

Nadezhda Kurtyanik, Minister of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications of the Moscow Region, noted that the accuracy of determining illegal outlets is 97%.

The use of AI technology allows you to speed up the detection and elimination of violations. As a result, residents of the Moscow region will be able to purchase better and safer goods, she stressed.

According to the ministry, since the beginning of 2024, thanks to the use of artificial intelligence in the Moscow region, more than 930 points of spontaneous trade have been identified and eliminated. This result demonstrates the high efficiency of the implemented system.

AI control of street trade has been successfully introduced in all municipalities of the Moscow region. This makes it possible to carry out comprehensive monitoring of the situation in the region and promptly respond to the identified violations.^[2]

2019

MTS launched a pilot smart city in the suburbs

On September 13, 2019, MTS PJSC announced the launch of a pilot project of a smart city in ReutovMoscow Region. The project is being implemented within the framework of the program of the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov "Safe District" and includes three areas: eco-monitoring, optimization of the removal of household waste and the installation of interactive information panels in a number of residential buildings. Read more here.

RT-Invest launched a project of "smart control" of waste collection and removal

On August 15, 2019, the RT-Invest group of companies (created with the participation of Rostec State Corporation) presented a pilot project for the digitalization of the collection and transportation of municipal waste on the basis of its own platform of telematic services. The devices were developed by the subsidiary "Modern Radio Technologies." In the Moscow region, the system is already used by regional operators included in the structure of the company.

As part of the project, garbage containers will be equipped with filling level sensors - a "smart tank," and garbage trucks - with sensors for monitoring their attachments. The complex is built on its own infrastructure of telematic systems using the LPWAN XNB data transmission protocol developed by Modern Radio Technologies. The development of this technology required more than one billion rubles of investment. But the costs will not be passed on to the emerging waste management industry. The implementation of the project became possible as part of the development of digitalization of the transport and logistics industries.

As noted in RT-Invest, the high level of penetration of digital platforms into the waste management sector should make the industry "smart." The cheapest and most reliable technical solution will ensure the control and accounting of those wastes that fall into the container for secondary raw materials. In the future, such verification will economically stimulate the market to implement a separate tariff system.

The introduction of a differentiated fee will become possible when the removal of unsorted waste costs more, and sorted waste costs several times less. The incentive will happen on the principle of "polluter pays." Those who do not sort waste pay more. And "smart control" will allow you to keep accurate records of waste, reduce transport costs and remove from the market unscrupulous participants in the process - those who seek to inflate the cost in various ways. The tariff should become objective,

The technical solution is already integrated with the AIS-Waste monitoring program. In addition, landfills will also become "smart": they will be equipped with specially designed sensors and sensors for controlling emissions of landfill gas and filtrate. Thus, supervisory agencies and regional operators will be able to quickly respond to possible emergency situations. The first such "smart landfills" will appear in September in the Moscow region. In the future, all RT-Invest facilities will be equipped with control systems.

2017: A "smart city" will be introduced in the Moscow region by analogy with Seoul

In the Moscow region, Smart City systems will be used, similar to those used in Seoul. This was announced during an official visit to the capital of South Korea by the governor of the region Andrei Vorobyov. His words are given in the material on the official website of the regional administration. We are talking about a special interactive online monitoring system for urban economy, which was demonstrated to Vorobyov by Seoul Mayor Pak Vonsun. The Smart City surveillance system is installed in his office, the report said.

"In real time, the interactive screen displays up-to-date information about the state of various spheres of life of the metropolis. The broadcast is carried out with the help of 60 thousand video cameras and special sensors installed at the objects of road transport, housing and communal, industrial infrastructures. The system allows you to quickly make the necessary management decisions. Including respond to incoming requests from residents of the city, monitor the level of concentration of harmful substances in the air, monitor public order and the state of cultural heritage sites, "the material says.

"We are developing such a system, and in the very near future we will test and launch it in the Moscow region. It will allow us from the regional government building to see the most sensitive problem places and immediately respond, "said Andrei Vorobyov. The governor did not name a specific deadline for the introduction of the online monitoring system

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