Perm is invited to find an investor for the project 'Smart Light' Materials and Products

Next year it is planned to install more than 12 thousand "smart" lamps on the central streets of Perm and key highways. To this end, the municipality plans to attract a project operator on a competitive basis, which invests its own funds in it. The municipality, in turn, will lease and then buy the Smart Light system. For these purposes from the budget of Perm and the region is supposed to allocate 250 million rubles. The deputies of the City Duma, to whom the administration and the government of the region presented these plans, still have questions about the financing, the stages and the mechanism for implementing the Smart Light.

Perm Mayor's Office presented to deputies plans for the implementation of the project "Smart Light" in the territory of the regional capital. As several participants of the meeting told Kommersant of Kommersant, we are talking about large-scale installation of new luminaires — more than 12 thousand pieces. This is almost a third of the total available quantity (40 thousand fixtures). The project is supposed to be implemented in the form of a municipal-private partnership. On a competitive basis, the operator% will be selected who invests in the installation of "smart" fixtures. The presentation discussed the possibility of implementing the project using the LoRaWAN technology (wireless technology to transfer small amounts of data over long distances% developed for distributed telemetry networks% of machine-to-machine interaction and the Internet of things. — Kommersant b). According to the Kommersant interlocutors, the municipality will rent the new equipment% and then buy it from the operator. According to the participants of the event, it is planned to allocate 250 million rubles for these purposes. from the budget of Perm and the same amount from the regional treasury. These intentions were witnessed by Deputy Prime Minister Anton Udalyev and Minister of Communications Igor Nikitin who were present at the presentation.

The press service of the city hall explained% that the approach to lighting is changing - the city is launching a phased modernization of the lighting industry. “In June, the launch of the project of“ smart ”urban lighting took place. Pilot space for "Smart Light" was the section of Popov Street between Lenin and Pushkin streets: 68 classic street lighting fixtures were replaced with LED% with the possibility of remote control. They can be switched on or off based on a time schedule (state of natural lighting)% remotely via a direct command of%, including from a mobile device of an employee of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise Gorsvet,%, as well as controlling the light intensity. Evaluation of the results of the pilot project showed% that energy savings from actual costs amounted to 42 - "%," the Perm administration noted. More than 12 thousand lamps on the territory of the central streets and entrance highways are planned to be replaced in 2019. “It is planned to rent the“ Smart Light ”system with subsequent purchase and introduce it on the streets of the city in 2020-2022. To implement the project, co-financing from the regional budget in the amount of 50- is provided. The final cost of the project will be determined on the basis of the results of the tender procedures for the Federal Law No. 44. ”% - specified in the press service of the mayor’s office.

The “Smart Light” project in the section of Popova Street was commissioned by JSC “E R -Tel e Kom Holding”. “We put smart LED-lamps% they are remotely controlled% dimming% process data is automatically collected. In addition, the urban lighting infrastructure can be used for such services% as public wi-fi% video surveillance% and you can even install temperature and humidity sensors, ”% explained Elena Mandrikova, director of the Perm branch of ER-Telecom Holding JSC. To implement the project “Smart Light” and other projects of the “smart city” format, in May the holding launched LoRaWAN network in Perm. Yesterday, in “Er-Telecom” they did not comment on the prospects for participation in the competition.

MP Alexander Filippov voiced a number of points about the project to “K-Kamye”. “First: we have repeatedly raised in the Duma the question of the need to implement such projects in the framework of municipal-private partnership. Here you can realize through the energy service contract: the investor includes his money and returns investments through savings. Everything is transparent.% Everything is open% without direct budget spending. ”% - says the parliamentarian. The second moment% that confuses him% is that% that in a quarter of the territory of Perm there is basically no coverage for% and about 300 million rubles are required to eliminate this problem% according to Mr. Filippov’s estimates. “Why spend 500 million rubles. to improve%, and so it works? "- Asks the deputy.

According to Kommersant’s Kommersant,% Deputy Prime Minister Anton Udalyev stated at the presentation that energy service contracts are not popular among investors.

Chairman of the Duma Economic Development Committee Arsen Bolkvadze believes% that any investment in urban infrastructure is always useful: “But we need to understand the mechanism for implementing% of the point of application of efforts and the ultimate goal of which we want to achieve: saving on lighting or increasing illumination. Certain questions remained and on the figures of% financing. It happened right