The Valencia City Council has started monitoring 25 loading and unloading zones in the city by means of a new system of artificial vision cameras. The aim of the project, promoted by the Mobility service, is “to optimize the movements in the city contributing to make them more sustainable”, as highlighted by the councilman of Mobility, Jesús Carbonell.
The system allows to know the occupancy status of these places with a high degree of reliability. The computer software of the cameras can detect occupancy percentages and set alarms for incidents such as the time exceeded by a vehicle in the square or double occupancy.
The data collected in real time will be integrated into the municipal platform ‘València Ciudad Inteligente’, being accessible on the municipal website, ‘València al minut’, the Geoportal and the App València. This information is in addition to that of the 1,719 loading and unloading spaces that were already sensorized by means of detectors located on the roadway.
The project has been awarded for an amount of 71,692.50 euros (VAT included), with a grant of 90% of its base budget (excluding VAT) financed by the European Union through the Next Generation funds.
The consistory informed that the artificial vision software has been acquired with a permanent license, so it will not involve future lease payments.
The new cameras have been installed in several strategic locations, including Tres Forques Avenue (numbers 64 and 75), Town Hall Square (27), Gran Vía Ferran el Catòlic (61), Russafa Street (31), Xàtiva Street (4), Guillem de Castro (1 and 59), Pius XII Avenue (62) and Hernán Cortés Street (2), among others.