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project in 2004 with the deployment of technological infrastructure based on fibre-optics. This has
enabled convergent hyperconnectivity of all the verticals in the city such as energy, environment,
reduction of the digital divide, electronic administration, energy management, security, mobility
and governance. These measures have reduced energy consumption and the carbon footprint
considerably, while improving the quality of life and public services for the citizens.

The variety of projects being implemented in the city of Rivas have made it a benchmark of
modernity, while guaranteeing the productivity and well-being of its citizens. Its smart city model
– along with its energy efficient and CO reduction policies embodied in the Rivas Zero Emissions
2
Plan and the enormous deployment of fibre-optics and the Wi-Fi network –are clearly aimed at
creating an innovative city based on a sustainable socio-economic model. This objective has been
amply supported by the implementation and development of the Rivas 2030 strategy and the
commitment to make rational and intense use of ICTs to improve the effectiveness and efficiency
in the management of public services contemplated in “Rivas 21.20 Digital: the Digital Agenda
for Rivas Vaciamadrid”.

The Rivas City Council made the decision to bet on the “Smart” development of the city, in order
to manage municipal resources more efficiently and effectively, and to improve the quality of life of
its citizens. Proof of this is its membership, since June 2012, of the RECI as one of the 25 founding
cities. It currently holds the Vice-Presidency of the RECI and co-leading Working Group 2 on Green
City: Sustainability and Infrastructure. It also participates in the AENOR CTN 178 Standardization
Committee on “Smart Cities”, leading the infrastructure subcommittee where the first City Platforms
Standard 178104 was agreed, along with ten other standards.

7.3 Technological architecture of the urban platform

This platform initiative specifically contemplates the development of three major interdependent
and complementary actions:

1 The smart city platform contains and relates to all smart city systems.
2 Integrate and improve the existing or planned expertise or vertical solutions of the city council
that are part of the smart city platform.

3 Expand and improve the city’s ICT infrastructure as enabling elements of a smart city.

From a graphic point of view, the initiative is defined as the following:

It enables the transformation process of services from a comprehensive point of view and the
application of open-data policies that favour the establishment of an open and participatory
innovation ecosystem that is robust, secure and adaptable, and transparent in the management
of public services.

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