The Digital Office of the Madrid City Council has presented the Madrid Digital Capital project, which seeks to transform the city into a smart, sustainable and people-centered environment. Through the implementation of cutting-edge technologies such as the Digital Twin and the Internet of Things, it aims to improve the provision of services to citizens, visitors and businesses and improve their quality of life.
The Madrid Digital Capital Strategy is the result of the collaboration of various stakeholders involved in building a more efficient and green city. Through the integration of technologies such as artificial intelligence and 2D-3D representation, a comprehensive real-time vision of the city is achieved, allowing for better planning of public policies and a more accurate assessment of infrastructures.
This innovative approach not only impacts urban management, but also promotes inclusion and citizen participation in decision-making. Madrid thus becomes a living laboratory where technology and sustainability come together to create a more livable environment adapted to everyone’s needs. Join this digital transformation and be part of the construction of a more human and connected Madrid. The construction of the Madrid of the future has already begun. A more human, accessible, efficient, sustainable, safe, resilient and cybersafe city. A digital Madrid of all and for all.
The Madrid Digital Capital strategy includes among its objectives the reinforcement of the so-called city intelligence, to accelerate the intensive use of data in the management of services and promote technological innovation.
Within this framework, a series of cross-cutting projects have been defined, including the design, configuration and deployment of smart urban spaces, which consist of incorporating the maximum amount of data and their interoperability in each of the services, devices, facilities or equipment found in a given area with the aim of advancing in hyper-automation and hyper-connectivity so that the supply of services is adjusted as optimally as possible to the needs of people and the environment, thereby achieving a city that adapts in real time to each person and the conditions of the environment.
This concept arises and is promoted by the strategic lines planned for cities by the main international, European and national organizations and are mainly aimed at accelerating and facilitating the green and digital just transition, the development of smart and sustainable cities or the concept of adaptive city or city 5.0: people-oriented, sustainability and resilience. In this sense, Madrid is at the forefront of the leading cities at European level, which has allowed it to achieve the seal missions promoted by the Government Area of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility.
On the other hand, the Digital Office participates in a European consortium, Govtech4all. In this consortium is committed to experiment in innovative public procurement in govtech, specifically in launching a technological project of a minimum of 50,000 €, whose amount may be improved in the proposal by the bidding companies, pilotable for a minimum of 12 months, using govtech methodology, in which a technological innovation challenge is defined, and this is contracted through a competition of ideas (art 183 of the Public Sector Contracts Act), which are evaluated by a jury or committee of experts.
The project with the highest score will be the one proposed for execution, using the formula provided for in the aforementioned Contracts Law through the negotiated procedure.
This ideas competition will be managed through the collaboration agreement between the Madrid City Council and the Polytechnic University of Madrid for the application of technologies related to smart cities through IoTMADLAB laboratory, which will also manage the project to be implemented in the “Cuña verde de la Latina” park, in collaboration with the Digital Office and the Directorate General of Water Management and Green Areas of the Madrid City Council.
Soon the IoTMADLab laboratory will launch, in collaboration with the Madrid City Council, an ideas competition to solve a challenge consisting of achieving interoperability for connectivity and data exchange in time in a smart urban space to be deployed in an area of the green wedge park of la latina in which at least one smart irrigation system and its integration and interoperability with environmental variables through IoT devices will be contemplated.
It will be required to implement a complete solution to remotely control and automate the irrigation system in an area of about 9 hectares. In this area it will be necessary to supply and install 60 controllers/programmers to control 60 solenoid valves so that irrigation can be activated and deactivated remotely and that will allow an intelligent – automated configuration of irrigation based on preconfigured variables, the environment, in real time and a progressive learning with artificial intelligence to optimize water consumption and optimize the conditions of biodiversity in the area of influence.
It will also require the supply and installation of 5 flow monitoring systems to detect possible water leaks, as well as the installation of 6 weather stations to measure the temperature and humidity of the soil.
Presence sensors will be incorporated in the perimeter to interact in real time with the deployed ecosystem as well as with the water metering.
All these devices must be battery operated or propose equivalent systems that guarantee uninterrupted power supply, including gateway communication capabilities to securely connect to a cloud server for remote operation and automated intelligent management based on business rules and, where appropriate, the application of artificial intelligence.
Finally, it will have an information system that allows remote operation and programming of the irrigation of each solenoid valve, optimizing irrigation in each area based on the information provided by the weather stations both manually and autonomously.
The KPIs necessary for the monitoring and evaluation of the deployed smart urban space and its comparison with a similar control environment must be defined and configured in order to contrast the impact of hyperconnectivity and hyper-automation both in savings and in the quality of the environment and biodiversity.
Priority will be given to the overall energy savings of the solution with the aim of minimizing local maintenance operations for battery replacement, valuing equivalent systems that guarantee the energy supply to the system through self-generation.
The competition will also consider the introduction of other IoT devices in areas other than irrigation that can interact and are useful for the management of municipal green areas.
Those professions, companies or entities interested in participating in this project competition, can indicate it through our contact page and a notice will be sent when this tender is published.
September 5, 2024
On September 5, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA) of South Korea and the European INSTAR project. This agreement seeks to establish international standards for advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G and 6G networks.
The meeting, organized in the framework of the INSTAR project, a European Union strategy that collaborates with countries such as the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia, brought together important players in the field of emerging technologies. The signing of the MoU marks a milestone in international cooperation to develop global standards that facilitate interoperability and technological progress in these sectors.
The Madrid City Council, represented by Fernando de Pablo, General Manager of the Digital Office, participated in the briefing, which explored potential key collaborations and joint opportunities between the City of Madrid and South Korea’s TTA and promoted the standardization of Smart Cities solutions. Also participating were Fernando Álvarez, Deputy Director of Digital Transformation. D.G. Digital Office at the Madrid City Council, Antonio García de la Paz, Secretary General of Data Strategy, Juan Jesús Muñoz, Head of IoT – 5G Service and Celia Tenés García, Technical Advisor at the Directorate General of the Digital Office. The Polytechnic University was represented by Victor Robles Forcada, Vice Rector of Strategy and Digital Transformation, Manuel Sierra Castañer, Director of ETSIT – UPM and Asun Santamaría, Director of IoTMADLab.
On behalf of TTA, Seunghyun Son, President of the Association, Daejung Kim, Vice President and Kihun Kim, Director of Global Cooperation and Joey Lee were present. Tanya Suarez, CEO of BluSpecs, Damir Filipovic, Secretary General of AIOTI, Antonio Kung CEO of Trialog and Brendan Rowan, Head of Tech, Policy and Skills at BluSpaces represented INSTAR. Carlos Lopez Rodriguez and Rolf Riemenschneider, members of the European Commission, and Zhuohua Chen, Head of European and International Policy Projects at CEN-CENELEC, also participated in the meeting.
This collaboration underlines the importance of strategic partnerships in digital transformation. The agreement with TTA will allow Madrid to advance the implementation of smart technologies, modernize public services and strengthen cybersecurity in the city and boost collaborations with European and Korean institutions. The meeting concluded with a guided tour of the Palacio de Cibeles facilities, where those present were able to enjoy the history and views of the city of Madrid.
With this type of collaboration, the Madrid City Council continues to promote the efforts framed in the Madrid Digital Capital strategy, to boost the innovative ecosystem of the city and the creation of digital solutions that improve the quality of life of citizens.
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