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A smart city is a user-friendly city
Nobody likes endless paperwork. Requesting and managing public spaces should be easy, quick and failproof. It shouldn’t take two weeks. Administration should enable public services, not hinder them.
Romcore Smart Cities is an enabling platform. It handles and manages all city user requests.
- One portal serves every city user, visualises through dashboards and mapviews
- Easy integration with existing systems and databases
- Fast implementation due to readymade functional components and a microservice architecture
- Drastic improvement in terms of operational and personnel costs
- New state-of-the-art Internet-of-Things devices, such as digital traffic signs (A*Sign)
- Track&Trace of assets, for a real-time and comprehensive overview of all city signalisation and event material
Availability
1,000-10,000 items
Solution details
A*Sign
Romcore Smart Cities
Business cases
Romcore Smart Cities in Antwerp
Antwerp, with 520.000 inhabitants the largest city in Belgium, uses Romcore Smart Cities for the management and total automation of use of public domain.
- Citizens complete their digital request in 2 minutes
- Civil servants manage requests in a user-friendly interface
- 2 supporting Romcore components handle asset management and planning
Thanks to the Romcore platform, Antwerp now successfully handles over 50.000 requests and permits a year.
"Romcore Smart Cities is by far the most user-friendly digital platform we have. The returns on investment are numerous and large: we realized a significant improvement in terms of efficiency, in terms of transparency towards our citizens and in terms of city revenue." — City of Antwerp, pilot partner
Problem
Nobody likes endless paperwork. Requesting and managing public spaces should be easy, quick and failproof. It shouldn’t take two weeks. Cities have a major problem in dealing with the massive amount of unauthorised use of street parking space.
Solution
The City of Antwerp uses Romcore Smart Cities for the management and total automation of use of public domain.
Benefits
- Easy payment for citizens, companies and other city users
- Quick request review process and permit-generation
- Automatic API-link with other government databases: public domain usage, law enforcement, city accounting, events, utility planning
- Automated work planning and automatic routing, enabling on-street workers to work most efficiently
Results
Romcore Smart Cities was first implemented in january 2016. The one-year results are impressive.
- Efficiency: The number of public servants involved in the management of a single request dropped from 7 to 2. Less paperwork, more productivity.
- Regularization: Thanks to the automation of the request management, Antwerp now has 3 times as many approved permits and a much clearer real-time view on public domain usage.
- Revenues: As the amount of requests is multiplied by 3, from 14.000 to over 50.000, city revenue increased equally.
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