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VIVACOMworks closelywiththeBulgarianmunicipalities

to offer them solutions that respond to their exact needs

and that will improve the lives of their residents and

guests. Based on the trust and the good cooperation

between VIVACOM and Burgas Municipality, achieved

in the time when the company provides communication

connectivity to the city’s bicycle rental systems,

intelligent video surveillance and integrated transport,

in 2018 was launched a development of a pilot solution

for

smart parking in the city.

The innovative system started working on 30 parking

spaces in the paid ‘blue zone’ in the central part of

Burgas. For the test phase was selected one of the

most neuralgic areas in the city where the overloading

needless traffic for search of free parking and long lines

of waiting cars are common occurrence. The aim of the

Municipality is to gather information on the zone’s traffic

load, then to analyze it and to take specific measures to

deal with the problem.

The system works via built-in sensor in each parking

space, which through the telecom’s LoRaWAN network

detects in real time whether there is a car parked on it.

Sensors are hermetically sealed boxes with a battery

which life-time is over 7 years. This provides easy

maintenance and a long-term exploitation.

In addition, two information boards, which show

real-time dynamic information about the number of

free parking spaces, are installed on both entry / exit

directions. Thus drivers understand whether to enter

the area at all or to go to another – that saves their time

and carbon emissions release from their vehicles into

the atmosphere, and last but not least, reduces stress

for all traffic participants.

Thanks to specialized management software helping

the ‘OP Transport’ operator and the citizens, the smart

parking system combines the information from each

sensor, reporting the free and occupied parking spaces

in real time. The system can issue an alert when parking

time is exceeded. It also has a special functionality in the

mobile application, which provides greater convenience

when making payments for hourly parking.

The system has one more advantage – the information

gathered can be provided to any interested authorized

institution as well as to companies wishing to develop

new mobile and web applications with information

about the city.

Dimitar Nikolov,

Mayor of Burgas Municipality:

‘The pilot project is a good start. Next year comes the upgrading and expansion of the

system by scope and functionalities.

The intelligent parking is only one of the aspects to which the efforts of the Municipality

team are directed. Combining city data into a common urban platform that provides

residents and guests with services, information and a place for civic engagement and

feedback from the administration is our next challenge."

Nikola Ghechev,

Director of Corporate Sales, VIVACOM:

‘The allocation of VIVA SMART into a separate platform establishes VIVACOM

as an innovative technology leader on the market. Behind this initiative is our

understanding that connectivity, freedom and independence are fundamental

values of modern society. We work to make this society grow and people live

better through communications and technology.’

They meet international standards for power supply,

cooling, telecom connectivity and redundancy for each of

these systems. Through them, the company offers cloud

services and colocation of IT equipment.

Cloud services are generally divided into three areas –

software, platforms and infrastructure, with Infrastructure

as a Service (IaaS) being the fastest growing year-on-year,

and the largest – Software as a Service (SaaS). VIVACOM

offers

‘infrastructure as a service’.

With it the user hires

computing resources: RAM, disk space and computing

power. The main advantage for businesses is that it helps

them to be more efficient, save costs, as well as to use a

specialized IT resource. Instead of investing in expensive

hardware that has a short lifecycle, to provide an isolated

room with appropriate conditions such as uninterruptible

power supply, specific temperature and humidity, fire

safety and limited access, and then paying high hidden

costs each month, such as electricity, they can just hire

IaaS. VIVACOM offers an infrastructure hiring model

where customers use the amount of server space they

need at the moment and that can be easily increased or

decreased as needed.

The collocation service, on the other hand, enables

corporate clients to have their personal IT equipment in

the telecom’s data centres. Thus, they benefit from the

fully-certified and high-standard collocation halls and do

not invest in their own premises. At the same time, they

have 24/7 access to their machines and can rely on expert

technical and IT support when needed. As a company with

a strong focus on the needs of its customers, in 2018,

VIVACOM launched a special solution for the collocation

of IT equipment for small and medium-sized businesses.

They can hire a telecommunication cabinet with smaller

volume – 1U/2U or even ¼ or ½ with an individual lock,

thus saving financial and human resources to support IT

systems and equipment.

The third element of VIVA SMART is Smart Education. In

recent years, the company has invested in a number of

initiatives aimed at developing Bulgarian education. In

2018, it launched its largest campaign for digitization of

the educational system in Bulgaria – ‘Education 4.0’. It is

realized jointly with ‘24 Hours’ newspaper, Ministry of

Education and Science, Sofia Municipality, Sofia Regional

Inspectorate of Education and Digital National Alliance.

The aim of the initiative is to change attitudes and to

create a framework for digitization of Bulgarian education.

It focuses on three main areas: teacher education, digital

content creation and digitization of classrooms and school

environment.

Along with this, the company offers the Bulgarian

schools a technological solution for digitization called

Smart School.

So far, the telecom has equipped digital

classrooms in more than 220 schools and in more

than 90 kindergartens across the country, also over

6,000 teachers have been trained with the help of our

partners. Under the Ministry of Education and Science

project, the company has built Wi-Fi networks in over

100 schools.

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Smart Parking in Burgas Municipality

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