Telefónica will create an area to define alliances and accelerate the adoption of digital processes in cities

Convertirse en socio de referencia de las instituciones públicas para acelerar la adopción de los procesos digitales en las ciudades es el objetivo que se ha planteado Telefónica en el entorno de las smart cities. Some proposals that are being presented at the Expo World Congress that is being held in Barcelona.

Telefónica is presenting in Smart City Expo World Congress, which is being held in Barcelona until 20 November, its technological commitment to promote the digitalization of cities and help in their transformation. The objective is to bring citizens, hand in hand with public institutions, services that enable the latest technologies and ultra-fast broadband networks.

With this objective, Telefónica is going to create a global competition area that defines alliances and partnerships in all the countries in which it operates. Its priority is to work together with public institutions, town halls and communities, to accelerate the adoption of digital processes in cities.

Mobility and transportation, sustainability and environment, citizen attention and security and competitiveness and economy will be the four axes on which the content and demonstrations of services that Telefónica has already launched in cities such as Sao Paulo and Aiguas de Sao Pedro in Brazil will star., Santander, Logroño, Valencia, Zaragoza, Malaga or Barcelona in Spain, London in the United Kingdom or Lo Prado in Chile.

At Telefónica's stand at Smart City Expo World Congress, Attendees can see how city traffic is reduced or air pollution is reduced, the way to reduce energy consumption, How to optimize garbage collection or how to save water when irrigating spaces in cities.

With solutions like Smart Parking, that Telefónica has already implemented in Santander and Málaga and that can be seen at the Barcelona Congress, You can reduce the search time to park in a 50%, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. This means gasoline savings of 17 million euros for a city of about 200.000 inhabitants, and the consequent decrease in CO2 emissions.

In the field of big data, Telefónica has begun to implement the Smart Step solution in Zaragoza, which is already commercially underway in the UK with O2. El objetivo de este proyecto es optimizar el transporte con una planificación inteligente que consiga mejores servicios para los ciudadanos.

City Platform

At Smart City Expo World Congress you can also see Telefónica's City Platform, which is the brain that the company puts in the hands of city councils and local corporations to manage all services efficiently and transparently., transversely, since it connects to multiple devices and sensors.

The City Platform, which uses the European FiWare standard, It has been developed by Telefónica's Innovation area with public specifications, and is characterized by the use of open source software to promote the development of smart cities.