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and another for IoT deployment have been developed to coordinate the implementation of the
infrastructure.

Smart enablers, as well as smart solutions in production, have been explained above.

One of the Office’s main lines of action is the digital transformation of municipal services and the
integration of these technologies and their associated information on the urban platform.

The city of Valencia is managing the digital transformation mainly through the introduction of smart
clauses in the technical specification sheets of public contracts. These clauses identify the data and
information, and establish the semantic and frequency integration contracts for the urban platform
based on open standards.

The induction of the information systems of the current municipal services is carried out employing
a technological and data model audit, integrating the information through data transformation and
integration tools. The Valencia City Council has integrated a large part of the municipal services
from which data are collected in almost real time from sensors deployed by the city or from KPIs
that monitor services.

An important aspect of the urban platform is its fundamental role in driving the evolution towards a
knowledge economy. Entrepreneurs, researchers, journalists and society in general also make use
of the data and the information based on the different degrees of access provided by the platform.

10.5 Economic Sustainability

One of the main aspects of the study in defining the smart city strategy in 2013 was the feasibility
and economic sustainability study of the urban platform, as well as the legal-administrative formula
for its operation.

Financing options for the platform were addressed based on contributions from large city service
contracts (including mobility, solid waste, street cleaning and lighting) due to the advantages and
reduction in costs accruing from the use of a common platform.

Given the administrative complexity of this solution in the Spanish public procurement system, a
firm commitment was made to have an urban platform with its financing coming from a specific
public contract to develop the data infrastructure of the city.

The necessary financial resources were provided from the municipal budget, in particular through
a four-year public tender for EUR 4.2 million (VAT included), which includes the use of the Cloud
City platform for EUR 1.6 million (VAT included), as well as a project office responsible for the tasks
of operating the platform and supporting the transformation of the municipal services for EUR 2.3
million (VAT included).

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