Tomar | €8.9M investment brings smart public lighting to the whole municipality
The municipality of Tomar has already launched its pioneering smart public lighting project, which aims at the full replacement of lamps with the placement of 13,722 BIPs over six months, in the eleven parishes. Paialvo was the stage for the symbolic launch of this project, which represents a contract of 8.9 million euros between the City Council and the company Ferrovial. This energy efficiency contract is complemented with an innovative system designed by Softinsa/IBM, which allows real-time network communication and monitoring, based on the ‘Smart Human City’ concept, in which Tomar intends to keep positioning itself.
According to Anabela Freitas, Mayor of Tomar, the replacement of lamps with leds will be made by the company Ferrovial, integrating a technological system developed by Softinsa/IBM, which will serve a networked real-time monitoring, based on a ‘Smart Human City’ concept, allowing communication between all lamps that, in case of failure, will automatically alert the municipal maintenance/repair team, in addition to serving other management indexes to be monitored in the municipality.
The parish of Paialvo was chosen to launch the project, on the morning of 25 October, with the mayor symbolically installing the first BIP. Now, over six months, more than 13 thousand BIPs will be installed in the eleven parishes, including the urban ones, although the company hopes to be able to replace all lamps by the end of the year, according to statements by Anabela Freitas to our newspaper.
Conversion to this new technological system allows the City Council to save EUR 2 million, said the mayor, recalling that the municipality annually pays about EUR 1 million for public lighting. The intention is for more lamps to be installed, and for the expected return of around EUR 11 million 16 years after project implementation to be injected in infrastructural requalification by the municipality.
This way, this pioneering project is part of the strategy of the Municipality of Tomar, also trying to make more sustainable options for the planet, paying attention to climate change. Here, Softinsa/IBM takes on a leading role, having developed a system that enables ‘monitoring air quality, the water quality of the Nabão River, the theft of water using the fire hydrants and the risk of river flooding’,
