Innovation

1. Line of action applied to intelligent ornamental lighting for heritage conservation

Public lighting and the conservation of façades of high heritage value. 3.5M€/year in electricity and maintenance of luminaires, 9% of Chapter 2 of the City Council's annual budget. In a UNESCO Heritage City with a high number of tourists, lighting is an added value. In addition, the conservation and maintenance of built heritage elements involve significant recurrent costs.

2. Smartiago Agreement

On 4 December 2017, the City Council signed with the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (now, Ministry of Science and Innovation, hereinafter referred to as MICIN) the Collaboration Agreement for the SMARTiAGO project, which provides for the use of innovative public procurement (CPI) for the implementation of quality services with a time horizon of 4 years.

Its main objective is the implementation of the roadmap formed by a set of innovative technological solutions in the field of smart cities, aimed at turning Santiago de Compostela into the first initiative that seeks efficiency, maximum applicability and adaptation of R&D to the problems of Heritage Cities as a whole, so that the results are highly scalable, efficient and replicable in other cities or environments in which the Historical Heritage is a distinctive attribute.

This is the first agreement that the MICIN has signed with a Local Administration based on the CPI model applying the Innovation Partnership procedure.

The SMARTiAGO project has a budget of €6,180,000, 80% of which (€4,944,000) is financed by the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) of the Smart Growth Operational Programme (POCINT) 2014-2020:

  • ·Thematic Objective 1: Enhancing research, technological development and innovation.

  • Investment Priority 1.b: Encouraging business investment in R&D&I, developing linkages and synergies between businesses, R&D centres and the higher education sector, in particular by fostering investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clustering and open innovation through smart specialisation, and by supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing and first production capacities, in particular in key enabling technologies and dissemination of multi-purpose technologies.

  • Specific Objective 1.2.1: Encouragement and promotion of R&D&I activities led by companies supporting the creation and consolidation of innovative companies, in relation to the actions co-financed within the action line of boosting innovation from the demand side through public procurement of innovation actions (PPI).

The agreement provides for the co-financing of SMARTiAGO project initiatives structured in three lines of action:

  • Sustainable and intelligent management of solid urban waste. The municipal solid waste (MSW) and street cleaning (VL) management service involves an annual cost of €11.55m/year, which represents 28.3% of chapter 2 of the municipal budget (2015 data). In addition, with a poor 13% of selective collection, well below the target of recycling and preparation for reuse set by the EU: 50% in 2020 and 65% in 2030.

  • Intelligent and sustainable mobility. Mobility and vehicle access for residents, visitors, freight and transporters in the centre and historic centre of Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO heritage site. The high level of hotel and commercial activity implies a disorderly activity of "last mile" transport vehicles, whose control is based on physical elements that are not integrated with the heritage and human control, with an impact on parking and blocking of emergency and waste collection vehicles.

  • Intelligent ornamental lighting for heritage conservation. Street lighting and the conservation of façades of high heritage value accounts for 3.5M€/year in electricity and maintenance of luminaires, 9% of Chapter 2 of the City Council's annual budget. In a UNESCO Heritage City with a high number of tourists, lighting is an added value. In addition, the conservation and maintenance of built heritage elements involves significant recurrent costs.

The project has a total amount of 6,180,000 euros, which will be executed in an R&D&I Phase: with an execution period of 4 years from the entry into force of the Agreement, it will include the entire process of acquiring solut

. SMARTiAGO will also enable companies with great technological capacity, universities and R&D&I centres in the local and Galician ecosystem to position themselves technologically in a new field, all of this by taking on new challenges in line with the ERDF 2014-2020 objectives.

3. Environmental sustainability

The Cromalux project, committed to sustainable lighting, promotes the prevention and reduction of light pollution with the development and installation of intelligent lighting solutions on façades and monuments, with the aim of:

  • Promote efficient use of outdoor lighting, while ensuring safety for pedestrians, vehicles and property.

  • Use of LED technology with appropriate luminaires and optics and correctly programmed control systems. As well as warm colour temperatures. (In case of dynamic lighting coloured in cool tones it is proposed to use it only sporadically).

  • Preserve as much as possible the natural night-time conditions for the benefit of fauna, flora and ecosystems in general.

  • Prevent, minimise and correct the effects of light pollution in the night sky, and in particular in the surroundings of astronomical observatories working in the visible spectrum.

  • To reduce light intrusion in areas other than those intended to be illuminated, mainly in natural environments and inside buildings.