Urban Platform for Smart Cities Management and Safety, Indra's comprehensive proposal for smart cities

The Spanish multinational Indra will present its comprehensive and integrated proposal Urban Platform for Smart Cities Management and Safety at Smart City Expo World Congress 2013, which is celebrated from 19 al 21 this month in Barcelona, and its security technologies, e-Government, smart urban transportation and energy efficiency.

The third edition of Smart City Expo World Congress, which is being held this week in Barcelona, will have the active participation of the multinational consulting and technology company Indra and its comprehensive proposal to face the challenges of the cities of the future, focused on a smart urban platform: Indra Urban Platform for Smart Cities Management and Safety.

This platform is the management center of the smart city, since it facilitates the exchange of information between the different systems of the city and offers a complete vision of its activity to adjust services to the real needs of citizens..

This comprehensive and integrated proposal is completed with innovative energy efficiency technologies, smart and sustainable urban transport, e-Government security, among others, developed with two different and convergent approaches.

In this sense, This solution is based on Indra's Hermes system, that facilitates comprehensive mobility management, public transport and urban infrastructure, applying concepts such as priority and intermodality to make mobility in cities more efficient and sustainable. As well as in the information integration and management solution in smart cities Sofia 2, developed from the European R&D&i project Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications (Sofia) in which Indra has participated, and which has now expanded with business capabilities.

Indra has transferred part of the experience acquired in this field to the city of La Coruña, in which a consortium of companies and institutions coordinated by this company is developing in the Galician city, based on Sofia 2, which will be the first comprehensive governance platform for a smart city in Spain.

In this event, Indra will have a space in the so-called Smart city plaza; a reproduction of a city so that companies can show their technologies in a real environment, where it will install a digital kiosk so that visitors can obtain a personalized smart card and interact with its intermodality solution. This smart card is based on RFID technology and its objective is to be the access key to services that require identification.

iSafety: comprehensive management of emergency situations

In security, a critical environment for the company in the smart city, Indra will show two control and dispatch stations with iSafety, your solution for the comprehensive management of emergency situations and security incidents in cities, that takes advantage of the information collected by the different smart systems and sensors deployed throughout the city to improve the effectiveness of the actions of the security forces.

This platform allows you to have a “single incident” view of the different notices and actions related to the same incident., which results in a coordinated response, quickly and efficiently between the various emergency services, which has been installed in the Integrated Security and Emergency Center of Madrid (Cisem) and in the Single Coordination and Emergency Center (STUFF) from Buenos Aires.

Another of Indra's contributions to this event is the Zigamit solution, developed with Gas Natural Fenosa, for monitoring and controlling energy consumption and home comfort services, with which two projects are currently being developed with real users in Madrid and Barcelona.

Added to this is Smart Agent, a virtual tourism advisor or intelligent services expert system that makes recommendations and interacts with tourists based on the user's preferences and other variables such as the weather or activities they have done, and the iConsejo tablet app, aimed at boards of directors and collaborative environments of management teams that allows access to the documents and reports that managers need in real time and in a completely secure way.