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Smart Cities has been a buzz word for quite a long time but we are still not there yet. You would expect that with all the technology and advancements we would be embracing smart cities today. Smart Cities for the benefit of the people. We have a long way to go before we can achieve this.
Kaarbontech’s Role In The Digitisation of the Public Sector
KaarbonTech were approached by a SKY TV production company to appear as part of a series focusing on Digitising the Public Sector for Executive TV. The program looks at the ways IT can empower public sector workers and make our services more efficient
The broadcast dates for the Executive Television programme ‘Smart Cities’ will be:
Sunday 09th June @ 10.30(am) on SKY digital channel 191
Sunday 07th July @10.30(am) on SKY digital channel 191
The programme will be made available on www.executivetv.org after the final broadcast.
George Bottin Principal Engineer Bath & North East Somerset Council joined the interviews along with John Holloway, Highways Assurance Manager, Balfour Beatty Southampton. Both customers use the KaarbonTech gully software “Gully SMART” for managing their services and have seen improvements in efficiency thought the service.
Digitisation Of The Public Sector
KaarbonTech aim to be at the forefront in making Smart Cities achievable with their bespoke asset management software. Designed from the ground up and fully customisable for any needs or purpose. Because we’ve done the job ourselves, and understand every step of the process.
Incentive Funding For Councils
We already have usable data interfaces for each user of the platform, however if you want it a little different then we can change this to suit your needs.
Barriers To Achieving Smart Cities
One of the first barriers people raise is the actual cost of digitising the public sector. However by implementing Kaarbontech assest management software it can be a cost neutral process. This was achieved by Bath & North East Somerset Council in our case study.
Their use of experienced independent surveyors, specifically designed tools and well defined safe working practices were key reasons for choosing KaarbonTech
Chris Jenner
Senior Technical Officer at BathNES
The Biggest Costs Of Running a City
For any council their biggest costs are the employees and its fleet of vehicles. Manage these inefficiently and you budget soon goes down the drain with needless visits to assets. Managed useable data of all your assets is the key to good decision making.
Using Kaarbontech “Smart” Solutions all the assets can be digitised and informed decisions can be made from the desktop. Reducing the need to send out expensive fuel burning vehicles when the need isn’t there.
Population By Cities
1 London – 10,236,000
Manchester – 2,639,000
Birmingham-Wolverhampton – 2,512,000
Leeds-Bradford – 1,893,000
Glasgow – 1,220,000
Southampton-Portsmouth – 883,000
Liverpool – 875,000
Newcastle – 793,000
Nottingham – 755,000
Sheffield – 706,000
Bristol – 646,000
Belfast – 600,000
Leicester – 534,000
As you can see from the population of the cities above the infrastructure is immense. The amount of assets in each city is mind boggling and its big data.
Managing Big Data By Kaarbontech
Big Data is often banded around today and having access to big data is not always a good choice. However Kaarbontech have already dealt with this issue and made their systems deliver useable data. Kaarbontech can create bespoke dashboards with detailed data for each end user.
We released early on that if it wasn’t presented in a user friendly way that the power of our software would be lost. As we own every line of code we can customise how it looks and what information is displayed. Furthermore it genuinely integrates with third party systems giving you endless possibilities.
Managing Your Assets
Speak with Kaarbontech today and we will show you how
Reduce unnecessary visits
Secure more funding
Identify savings
Smarter data = effective maintenance
Reduced compensation claims
Digitisation of your assets is the way forward to reducing costs and maximising your budgets.