"To implement an AI system, a region or municipality
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:43 am
Andrey Laptev, Development Director of Softlogic Rus LLC, spoke about this at the forumSmart City & RegionMarch 26. "Autonomous hardware systems using artificial intelligence (AI) systems from Softlogic are needed to control the city's road and adjacent infrastructure. They are operating or being piloted in more than 30 cities in Russia," said Andrey Laptev. "But not all cities are ready to implement artificial intelligence."
needs to allocate a budget for it, and to do this, it is most often necessary to protect the project being implemented and prove its effectiveness. The solution is to launch a free pilot algeria whatsapp number database project to evaluate the system's performance," explains Andrey Laptev. According to him, developers should be ready to conduct such pilots.
"In addition, regions and municipalities do not always take into account the fact that AI systems can replenish the budget - for example, through fines for identified and unresolved violations in the area of landscaping. This leads to the second problem - in some regions there is no regulatory framework for imposing fines. Or local legislation requires significant adjustments. As a rule, such changes are made at the level of the government of a particular region," added Softlogic's Development Director.
In the Moscow region, for example, there is the Code of the Moscow Region on Administrative Offenses dated 04.05.2016 Nº37/2016-03, in Ufa such powers are enshrined in the decision of the council of the urban district of the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan "On approval of the Rules for the improvement of the territory of the urban district of the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan" dated 23.06.2020. Nº62/4.
According to Andrey Laptev, in Russia there are also no single responsible municipal, regional or federal control services for solving the same problems; therefore, when a solution developer comes to a new region, he first needs to find a responsible person to whom he can offer a solution.
In the Moscow region, such an agency is the Main Directorate of Regional State Housing Supervision and Maintenance of Territories, in St. Petersburg - the State Administrative and Technical Inspectorate, and in Ufa - the Directorate of Public Utilities and Improvement of the City District Administration.
Among other problems, Andrey Laptev noted the inability to use AI, when in some municipalities it is easier to perform tasks manually with the help of several people than to implement digital solutions; as well as the lack of motivation in cities. According to Andrey Laptev, the existing tools - government grants, federal programs, ratings, KPI, IQ of smart cities - help to interest people.
The solution to the problem of financing smart city projects may be different. Deputy Minister of Digital Development and Communications of the Kursk Region Elena Yemelyanova said that the Smart Kurchatov software and hardware complex (SHC) was implemented in the city of Kurchatov both at the expense of municipal and regional funds and at the expense of a grant from Rosenergoatom Concern JSC - the state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom.
According to Elena Yemelyanova, the Smart Kurchatov PAC service complex is intended for both city management and business - a centralized video surveillance system is integrated into this PAC, which acts not only as a security system, but also as a system for monitoring the state of city facilities and utilities.
Ivan Chebykin, CEO of TrafficData LLC, noted that their solution based on artificial intelligence for optimizing road traffic sometimes does not require capital investments from the city administration, but produces a tangible effect.
"In Salekhard, within 24 hours of our system's operation, we were able to switch the traffic lights to a standard mode. The 72 seconds of waiting time for road users was reduced to 25 seconds. This required virtually no costs from the administration, but significantly increased their KPI," added Ivan Chebykin.
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needs to allocate a budget for it, and to do this, it is most often necessary to protect the project being implemented and prove its effectiveness. The solution is to launch a free pilot algeria whatsapp number database project to evaluate the system's performance," explains Andrey Laptev. According to him, developers should be ready to conduct such pilots.
"In addition, regions and municipalities do not always take into account the fact that AI systems can replenish the budget - for example, through fines for identified and unresolved violations in the area of landscaping. This leads to the second problem - in some regions there is no regulatory framework for imposing fines. Or local legislation requires significant adjustments. As a rule, such changes are made at the level of the government of a particular region," added Softlogic's Development Director.
In the Moscow region, for example, there is the Code of the Moscow Region on Administrative Offenses dated 04.05.2016 Nº37/2016-03, in Ufa such powers are enshrined in the decision of the council of the urban district of the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan "On approval of the Rules for the improvement of the territory of the urban district of the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan" dated 23.06.2020. Nº62/4.
According to Andrey Laptev, in Russia there are also no single responsible municipal, regional or federal control services for solving the same problems; therefore, when a solution developer comes to a new region, he first needs to find a responsible person to whom he can offer a solution.
In the Moscow region, such an agency is the Main Directorate of Regional State Housing Supervision and Maintenance of Territories, in St. Petersburg - the State Administrative and Technical Inspectorate, and in Ufa - the Directorate of Public Utilities and Improvement of the City District Administration.
Among other problems, Andrey Laptev noted the inability to use AI, when in some municipalities it is easier to perform tasks manually with the help of several people than to implement digital solutions; as well as the lack of motivation in cities. According to Andrey Laptev, the existing tools - government grants, federal programs, ratings, KPI, IQ of smart cities - help to interest people.
The solution to the problem of financing smart city projects may be different. Deputy Minister of Digital Development and Communications of the Kursk Region Elena Yemelyanova said that the Smart Kurchatov software and hardware complex (SHC) was implemented in the city of Kurchatov both at the expense of municipal and regional funds and at the expense of a grant from Rosenergoatom Concern JSC - the state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom.
According to Elena Yemelyanova, the Smart Kurchatov PAC service complex is intended for both city management and business - a centralized video surveillance system is integrated into this PAC, which acts not only as a security system, but also as a system for monitoring the state of city facilities and utilities.
Ivan Chebykin, CEO of TrafficData LLC, noted that their solution based on artificial intelligence for optimizing road traffic sometimes does not require capital investments from the city administration, but produces a tangible effect.
"In Salekhard, within 24 hours of our system's operation, we were able to switch the traffic lights to a standard mode. The 72 seconds of waiting time for road users was reduced to 25 seconds. This required virtually no costs from the administration, but significantly increased their KPI," added Ivan Chebykin.
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