Improving Firenze Control Room

There is currently a control room in the city of Florence, which uses well-tested and already active instruments for traffic control and public lighting, with traffic light synchronization systems, with traffic control with sensors and cameras, mobility control electricity and car & bike sharing, public lighting monitoring and its consumption.
The comparison with international experiences (including those of the Empower project), the participation in dedicated European projects, have led the Municipality of Florence towards creation of a control room that receives the data and interfaces with more situations and in a wider area, multiplying its effectiveness.
In the new Control Room, all the functions will be transferred to the company that already takes care of the 'smart' part of the city, it will act automatically taking the decisions and reorganizing. The Control Room will monitor traffic, gas, water and electricity services, public lighting, traffic light systems, waste bins, the ZTL and parking . A part is already started with the mobility dashboard: the detection of the transit of vehicles, the level of waste bins, information on air quality, are monitored by sensors and converge in a software that reads these data in an integrated manner. All this will serve as a basis for managing the SCCR .The main stakeholders and beneficiaries are the municipalities of the Florentine metropolitan area, the technicians and the energy manager, the citizens.