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4.3.1. VIVA SMART – an Innovative Platform for
Complete IoT Services and Solutions
Innovation is the driving force of the telecom market.
Every company that wants to be a technology leader
should not just follow the trends, but also work for the
development of entirely new products and solutions. In
recent years, heading direction in the high-tech sector has
been the Internet of Things (IoT) or the interconnection of
all our surrounding devices to exchange information, thus
accumulating data on lifestyle and consumer behaviour.
The ultimate goal is to analyse these data to provide
adequate changes in our environment thus making
people’s daily lives easier.
VIVACOM has years of experience in the field of various
M2M solutions that provide communication between
individual machines. But in the dynamically developing
world we live in, they are no longer enough. According
to estimates by global technology giants such as
and Internet-connected devices will be about
29 billion globally by 2022. Estimations show that there
will be 5.7 billion mobile users and 12.3 billion connected
mobile devices.
At the same time, according to currently 55%
of the world's population is concentrated in cities, but
by 2050 this figure is expected to reach 68%. Enhanced
urbanization forecasts bring with them many issues
of urban management and addressing issues such as
increased traffic, mobility of residents, energy and
resource efficiency, environmental protection, access to
employment, quality education and health, security, etc.
And it is precisely the development of technology that
can provide the necessary solution for them.
As a company that always strives to be a technology
leader and today seeks solutions for tomorrow, in 2018,
VIVACOM launched an entirely new platform uniting all
of its IoT projects – VIVA SMART. Through it, the telecom
offers smart services in three directions: Smart City (VIVA
Smart City), Cloud Solutions and Equipment Collocation
(Smart Data Hub), and Digital Education. The platformwas
presented in November 2018 and in the coming years the
company will gather feedback from its users and report
successful projects.
VIVA Smart City is an innovative platform for management,
monitoring and analysis of urban environments that
offers both software for the municipality authorities
and mobile applications for all its residents and guests.
VIVACOM builds on the good international experience of
cities such as Dubai, Izmir and Dublin, where the solution
is already working successfully. The company will offer to
the Bulgarian municipalities 13 different modules, which
will best meet their needs. They are divided into the
following vital areas for each city: mobility, environment,
energy, safety, management. In the field of mobility, the
system allows for monitoring and control of traffic, urban
transport, parking, bicycle rentals, etc. Environmental
monitoring is intended to measure water and waste as
well as to function as a meteorological station. The energy
submenu includes smart buildings, smart meters, street
lighting, electric vehicles, and infrastructure modules.
The city’s safety is provided by functions for CCTV, traffic
violations, intruders and emergency systems. A particular
focus on citizen satisfaction is the separate section of
government that includes public services.
The system is as transparent as possible to modern
consumers who are extremely active with regard to the
management and development of their cities. It has a
mobile application with an easy interface and a variety of
options to check everything that is most important to any
resident or visitor to given location.
The most valuable advantage of the platform is that it is
applicable to the needs of each municipality, regardless
of its size, population, and the pressing issues it needs
to deal with. Local governing bodies can choose which
modules to use and over time have the ability to upgrade
them and include additional services. All of them
are managed through a unified system, making data
collection and subsequent analysis much more effective.
The mass penetration of technology leads to a huge
increase in the amount of information that is being
created. According to another by 2021 the
volume of data generated worldwide will grow to 847
zettabits (ZB) per year, compared to 218 ZB in 2016.
These trends raise the issue of storing and protecting
information created. According to the same survey, at
global level, data stored in data centres will increase
almost fivefold by 2021 compared to 2016.
These forecasts motivate VIVACOM’s decision to develop
its data storage, transmission, processing and usage
platform – Smart Data Hub, which is also the second VIVA
SMART direction. It unites all 11 VIVACOM in
the country and creates the conditions for developing a
successful digital business for the telecom’s customers
while optimizing their operating costs. All centres provide
the highest level of security, reliability and accessibility
of the data. →
ANNUALREPORT
2018
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