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Connected city: the role of public technical services
Located in the Occitanie region of France, Béziers and its 100,000 inhabitants are a veritable territory of innovation, particularly in the field of energy. Working closely with the flow management and infrastructure departments, Synox is supporting the city in its digital transformation to become a connected, sustainable territory.
Goals
Faced with the challenges of compartmentalizing data and solutions, the city of Béziers has set itself several strategic objectives:
- Centralize data and platforms to optimize their use
- Guaranteeing data sovereignty
- Optimize management costs
- Promoting cross-functionality between departments
Initially, each department developed its projects in isolation.
“The public lighting department, for example, had set up its own cabinet monitoring system to detect faults,” explains Vincent Milhaud, head of the infrastructure department, illustrating this siloed approach.
This fragmented approach manifested itself in various areas: unconnected air quality sensors for building services, or watering systems with no intelligence or connection to weather data.
“Our collaboration with the flow management department was aimed precisely at reducing these operating costs. “emphasizes the IS manager.
The difficulties inherent in local authorities
In the digital transformation of local authorities, several structural challenges have been identified:
- Businesses’ historical mistrust of the IT department
- Tendency to move forward in silos to “save time
- Staff turnover in certain key positions
Challenges encountered
Supervision of sensors represented a major challenge for business departments: verification of deployment, monitoring of network communication, data collection…
“The Synox tools enabled us to integrate all this information into our IS, ensuring complete control and supervision,” adds the IS Manager for the City of Béziers.
Synox’s agnostic approach to connectivity has enabled us to maintain the flexibility required for each service.
Deployed use cases
The city of Béziers has implemented several specific use cases:
- Street lighting control
- Federation Linky, Gazpar, Suez
- Connected watering management
- Domestic hot water monitoring
- Mobility flow analysis
“Synox’s SoDATA#Viz solution was the perfect answer to our needs, particularly for managing tertiary decree and technical building management,” adds the flow management office manager.
Future vision and interoperability
The ambition remains hypervision and data interconnectivity. As one manager points out:
“The ability of publishers to open up their APIs represents a real opportunity for business.”
This vision of a centralized, interconnected platform is the future of the smart city.
What is the tertiary decree?
This is the Éco Énergie Tertiaire (DEET) scheme, which requires companies to reduce the energy consumption of their commercial buildings.
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Services gestion des flux et
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Béziers.
Goals
Mutualize the management of technical services and data to improve performance and reduce costs.
- Intelligent management of public lighting
- Remote monitoring of green spaces
- Connected control of buildingtechnical management and energy performance .
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Béziers is asserting itself as a connected and sustainable territory by integrating innovative IoT solutions to improve the quality of life of its residents. For example, the town took part in a survey conducted by the Cerema on the impact of soft mobility developments on the commercial appeal of city centers, demonstrating its commitment to using connected technologies to optimize urban space and promote sustainable modes of transport. These initiatives illustrate Béziers’ determination to take advantage of Internet of Things technologies to build a smarter, more environmentally-friendly city.