Smart City

Metropolis – Digital Urban Infrastructure Management Platform

Support for the management of modern cities is the ISO 37120 standard, which introduces order and standardization of concepts within the debate on the definition of a “Smart City”.

This standard defines 17 quality of life areas in cities and agglomerations based on 100 clearly defined coefficients. A solution that supports efficient and modern city management in the context of the above mentioned standard is the Metropolis Platform, which is part of the idea of sustainable urban development:

  • it integrates urban services and technologies into one central system;
  • improves the coordination of the work of municipal services;
  • enables active public participation in the provision and reception of information.

The challenges of the modern city are:

  • increasing number of people migrating to cities, requirements for improving the quality of life of the society;
  • management of growing urban traffic;
  • guaranteed high level of safety;
  • integration of and access to existing public information systems.

 

Being smart means improving the quality of life from year to year in all seemingly independent areas. The true intelligence of the city is sustainable development in all areas over the years.

Benefits:
  • Optimizing city management costs
    The Metropolis platform allows you to optimize city management costs, as a result of the automation of activities (e.g. power consumption, maintenance of numerous separate systems, etc.) and easier cooperation with other areas of the city thanks to one central system.
  • Rich functionality
    The Metropolis functionality allows the execution of key urban services, such as: City Card, collective transport, individual transport, environmental quality measurement (air, water, greenery, noise, light), Paid parking zones with Park&Ride model, variable content boards, video surveillance, lighting.
  • Security and reliability
    The use of the latest trends in software engineering made it possible for us to create a solution for maximum data security.
  • Mobility
    The Metropolis platform is available as Metropolis. Go mobile app. It provides the option to pay for and use city services without the need to use a dedicated City Card. The application has an intuitive and friendly interface.
  • Three sales models
    The Metropolis platform is available in three sales models: “collocation at the client’s”, “in-the-cloud” and “hybrid”. The customer can choose the model that suits them most.
  • Tested quality
    The Metropolis platform is the result of many years of experience, analyses, research and development, implementation of subsequent evolutions of “urban systems” executed by Nile Data Systems. Its smooth operation has been proven and confirmed during the execution of numerous projects.

Key urban services available in Metropolis Platform:

  • Ecology
  • Mobility and safety
  • Public transport
  • Tourism and culture
  • Lighting

Ecology

Environmental quality measurement module in the Metropolis system is a comprehensive solution ensuring the acquisition, analysis and presentation of data from weather stations and numerous environmental sensors placed in the urban space. The platform is equipped with a set of connectors for the for sensors of various classes. In particular, it allows for the measurement of key indicators associated with the quality of air within the area covered by implementation, such as: air temperature, air humidity, pressure, CO/CO2, SO/SO2, NO2, Dusting (PM1, PM2.5, PM10), Ozone (O3).

Mobility and safety

Mobility and safety is a set of modules in Metropolis, which allows, among other things, to monitor the occupancy of parking lots, events in bus bays and at bus stops, and provides a mobile application which acts as a guide to free parking spaces and handles resident reports. It also makes it possible to keep advanced statistics related to the different aspects of movement of objects in the urban space (buses, cars, single-track vehicles and pedestrians).

Public transport

A comprehensive solution for the efficient implementation of the electronic ticket system, dynamic passenger information and resident card.

Tourism and culture

The solution includes a central application managing beacons deployed throughout the town/city, which presents statistics and scenarios of gamification, as well as a mobile tourism application.

Ecology

Financing lighting of streets, squares and roads located in the commune is one of the basic duties of local government units in the scope of their own tasks performed for the benefit of the local community. As the statistics and reports from numerous audits of the Supreme Audit Office show, the costs of fulfilling this obligation constitute a significant part of the budgets of local governments. Depending on the size and specificity of a given town, these expenses may reach even several percent of their budget.