Thales at Smart City Expo Montreal, March 25-27, 2015
Smart City Expo Montreal, March 25-27, 2015
Thales took part in this 3-day program that gathered public administrators and international experts to discuss the future of cities.Three Thales experts gave their insight on sustainable mobility & urban resilience
- Sustainable mobility
Dave Spagnolo, VP Sales and marketing, Thales Canada
- Urban resilience
Sébastien Sabatier (electronic engineer ) currently holds the position of Product Line Manager for Citizen Security with Thales in Defence and Security C4I Division, Protection Systems business line.
Gilles Betis is the mobility and smart-city product line manager at Thales Group.
Gilles Betis is also a member of IEEE Smart Cities Initiative which seeks to apply technology to improve cities and the quality of life for their residents by implementing technologies throughout a city’s infrastructure. It can include automating payments for services such as public transportation, providing more efficient ways to dispose of waste, or alerting first responders in case of an emergency.
“Through the Smart Cities initiative, we try to select the technologies that can solve problems cities must confront, such as traffic congestion or poor air quality, and then create a network of participating cities so ideas for progress can be shared,” Betis says. One example of applying technology is to use smart sensors to monitor water and air quality. Intelligent transportation systems, the Internet of Things, crowdsourcing information, and big data are other tools that will help solve societal issues.
Thales booth display:
Big Data Analytics
Smarter data for smarter cities: helping you optimize transportation networks Thales’s Big
analytics approach extracts every ounce of information from your data to better understand passenger behavior and ridership patterns and know how they really use your transport infrastructure and equipment. The very concept of a smart city is based on making intelligent use of data generated by city dwellers to help optimize services. Thales's value proposition is unique because we combine an in-depth knowledge of all the processes involved in managing a smart city with the technology leadership required to analyze vast amounts of data cost‐effectively.
Urban Mobility
Thales smart Mobility Solution is designed in order to address Mobility integration aspects. Thales provide today many solutions addressing the cities needs on traffic, urban tolling, bus and tram fleet management systems and also provide an integrated mobility platform or center providing both solution for Transports authorities, cities operators and for the citizen.
City Operations Management
Strasbourg use case
For the Strasbourg Urban Community and its half a million residents, Thales has deployed a traffic control system to regulate vehicle flows, coupled to the city’s operations support and passenger information system. The automatic traffic information and control system, called SIRAC, has been extended to manage pedestrian areas and available parking spaces. The Strasbourg Urban Community has also decided to combine its video surveillance and urban traffic control centers under one roof for better coordination, while each retains its own organizational independence and characteristics.These examples illustrate the smart city in which separate urban information systems arecoordinated to increase operational efficiency and make cities more attractive.
Interactive Table
The real-time , intuitive, operational and intelligence planning solution, the interactive touch table (C2Table) was also presented. The collaborative map centric approach empowers city managers and organizations to share a common operational picture. Multiple users can simultaneously interact with the Table C2 through a geospatial view, whereby all information display, management and navigation occur on top of a digital map.
Global Reach, Local Expertise
Another area of the stand was dedicated to communicate our Thales vision of a smart city with corporate video and flagship customer references (urban security in Mexico, etc).
Thales urban security solution in Mexico City
The “Ciudad Segura” (or “Safe City”)programme was designed in 2009 and installed by Thales in partnership with national telecoms company Telmex. The latter provided a dedicated fibre optic network and other communications infrastructure necessary to support the programme, while Thales supplied a range of high-end technology and created the software to cope with the scale of the project, as well as overseeing the civil work associated with building one central and five regional command centres. Before the scheme was finalised, Mexico City’s then mayor Marcelo Ebrard travelled to cities around the world to see how they managed city-wide surveillance projects and what technology they used. But his ambition to transform the city into somewhere more enjoyable to live and work, for both residents and foreign visitors, placed tough demands on the project. A network of more than 8,000 cameras now records Mexico City’s streets 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It operates alongside hundreds of emergency call points (or panic buttons), as well as a fleet of drones. All of this data feeds into state-of-the-art command centres, where more than two million incidents have already been logged and response time has been reduced from over 12 minutes to 2.03 minutes since its launch. It has also seen high-impact crime, such as kidnappings, fall by 42 per cent and car theft by 33 per cent.
Thales at Smart City Expo expo in the Francophone press:
Smart City Expo expo in figures:
- Thales one of the 26 booths:
IT companies, architecture, consulting, engineering, urban design, urban planning, transport, etc
- 70 speakers & international experts
from Québec, Canada, États-Unis, Mexico, France, Allemagne, Espagne, Angleterre, Danemark, Finlande, Japon, Autriche, Brésil, Maroc.
- Nearly 900 attendees
Municipal representatives, senior officials, researchers, academics, business people, entrepreneurs… Canadian 77 % - international 23 %
SmarT City Expo expo in pictures:
Sebastien Sabatier lecturing on Thales’ Urban Security solutions in Mexico City
Thales booth
