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Rivas Vaciamadrid is one of the youngest and most continuously growing municipalities in the
territory. The Department of Innovation and Modernization has issued guidelines with specifications
for the deployment of smart systems for new innovations and for those that need to be reformed. In
addition, all the technical specifications include specific smart clauses, which for years have greatly
simplified the growth of the platform. These clauses involve information, semantics and frequency
data that must be included in the specific platforms, as well as in the city platform.

The data integration is very uneven, but above all, the focus is on real-time data obtained from the
various sensors deployed across the city.

One of the main focuses of the RivaSmart platform is the evolution towards a knowledge economy
that would benefit companies and entrepreneurs, researchers, journalists and society in general
to have access to the city's data and the information provided by the platform.

7.6 Economic Sustainability

The Rivas Vaciamadrid City Council has received financial assistance through the Integrated
Sustainable Urban Development Strategy (ISUDS Strategy) in line with the objectives of the Europe
2020 Strategy aimed at the growth of a smart, sustainable and inclusive city. The ISUDS Project for
the development and implementation of the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy
has been defined by the city council and designed together with the public in mind and in line
with the Europe 2020 objectives and the Operational Growth Programme. All these actions are
co-financed by the European Union and the city council, each contributing 50 per cent.

A total of EUR 345 000 was invested in 2020 to develop the base of a comprehensive platform. It
was envisioned as the city's nerve centre, which would consolidate the existing and future vertical
systems to meet the needs of the city in terms of mobility, environmental health, governance,
people’s well-being and so forth in a single, holistic cross-city system that would truly constitute a
smart city.

Other projects that have been carried out during 2020 such as the development of a City app, as
well as an e-commerce platform that was designed to be interoperable with the city platform and
co-financed by the ISUDS strategy for EUR 147 000.

The total amount of the project funds in the ISUDS strategy until 2023 is EUR 1 559 743.00, of
which 70 per cent has already been invested in developments related to vertical projects and
city platforms. Outstanding outcomes include the installation of intelligent lighting and irrigation
systems, air quality monitors and noise probes, as well as energy diagnostics in public buildings
and a new digital library.

By way of example, 100 per cent of municipal investments to the tune of EUR 1 035 000 went to
different projects of the smart ecosystem to improve the electronic administration platform, electric
vehicles with intelligent management, electric vehicle charging points, hyper-converged servers,
analytical systems of video, lighting and irrigation improvements, Inmotics and SCADA control

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