The button for smart cities has been pressed

The first step towards the realization of the actions included in Turkey’s 2020-2023 National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan was taken.

With the project initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, cities will be guided on “smart city”. In this context, the General Directorate of Geographical Information Systems realized the tender for the project and started the works.

AsisCT won the tender for realizing the actions included in the 2020-2023 National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan, guiding smart city solutions, preparing local smart city strategy and road map, and improving capacity on smart cities in Turkey.

AsisCT, which produces solutions for smart city technologies in Turkey and abroad, will prepare more than 50 technical reports and training documents together with local and foreign consultants for one year and will provide one-to-one guidance to local governments to become smart cities.

At the end of the project, local governments’ smart city plans and trainings, the technologies and technical specifications they will implement will be finalized. The National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan previously prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization will be realized with this project.

Common standards will be set for all of Turkey

One of the most important outputs of the project will be the establishment of a common road map on smart cities in front of local governments in all 81 provinces, and local governments will now speak the same language on this issue.

Efforts will also be made to ensure that the technologies to be used in the transition to smart cities are compatible and interoperable with each other, so that the investments made will be more sustainable. When the municipality buys a product from a company, it will not have to buy from that company all the time. The standards of the systems will be determined and each manufacturer will produce accordingly. This will allow municipalities to meet their needs from different sources.

Domestic and national solutions will be preferred

The project will be the first in the world with its “National Smart City Architecture”. With the National Smart City Architecture, all standards from data collection to data processing and data sharing will be determined on a national scale. Standards will be prepared for the technological infrastructure of cities to be domestic and national.

Technical specifications will pave the way for domestic producers, and foreign dependency will be reduced. Important smart city applications such as smart intersections, parking systems, renewable energy, irrigation, water loss and leakage monitoring systems, lighting, waste collection and building systems will be realized in accordance with the technical specifications to be prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.

Financing smart cities

The project will also develop innovative finance methods and business models with a smart cities approach and prepare guidelines for local governments on issues such as defining revenue-increasing or cost-reducing initiatives, creating revenue-sharing agreements, and brokering public-private partnerships.