Telvent presents its integrated global IT solutions for smart cities

Real-time IT solutions and information provider 134 Telvent recently presented its global IT solutions for smart cities. Developed with 729 Schneider Electric, Telvent says its SmartCity concept provides cities with access to an integrated suite of solutions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban infrastructures, leading to more livable cities.

The SmartCity strategy combines Schneider Electric and Telvent’s proven solutions for managing critical infrastructure, including:

• Smart Grid helps cities to manage growing demand for electricity and integrate renewable energy sources while improving customer service through improved network efficiency and reduced energy consumption and emissions.
  
  
• Smart Mobility improves resident mobility by providing easier travel across modes of transport, better information, improved interoperability, better management of multi-modal transport networks, as well as integration of electric vehicles, resulting in reduced congestion, increased public transit use and emissions.
  
  
• Smart Water helps cities manage water networks more efficiently and offers them greater resiliency against hazards, resulting in reduced water losses and outages and improved customer service.
  
  
• Smart Public Services helps cities to efficiently manage public safety, street lighting, healthcare and government administration, delivering improved information-sharing between agencies, fewer disruptions to public services and increased control over city systems and a better quality of life.
  
  
• Smart Buildings and Homes provides energy and environmental monitoring and visualisation to help cities optimise resource consumption for public buildings and residential homes, resulting in reduced emissions and energy consumption and improved resident engagement.
  

“To retain or regain their attractiveness and competitiveness, manage their growth in a controlled way and provide better public services to the citizens, cities need to become smarter: more efficient, more sustainable, and more livable”, stated Telvent’s Chairman and CEO, Ignacio Gonzalez. “At Telvent and Schneider Electric, we help cities around the world such as Malaga meet these and future challenges through our IT solutions.”

In the city of Malaga, Spain, Telvent is developing a smart street lighting management system aimed at lowering CO2 emissions, expenditure on electricity and maintenance costs, and creating an inventory system to facilitate lighting management. Street and outdoor lighting systems are a significant source of electrical power consumption (representing 50-60 per cent of the electrical power used by city councils). The company claims this management tool will help identify potential lighting malfunctions, lower lighting intensity levels during off-peak hours and make sure that lighting systems are properly switched on and off.  The solution will also be integrated into a demand control system in order to ensure electrical power grid stability and sustainability. Telvent says such advancements and integrations enable cities to become more efficient, sustainable and livable environments as the product of technology.