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Public Safety

Public Safety projects in Dundee and Perth as part of Phase 1, form the backbone of a wider approach to public safety across Tayside. The 8^th City ERDF programme has supported the installation of fibre links between Dundee and Perth with IP-enabled CCTV, upgraded facilities, and enhanced public safety services in both cities.

These systems are now live and work continues on implementation of a fully integrated network linking the three Tayside councils (including Angus).

In Phase 2 Edinburgh is developing an integrated City Operations capability to improve the city’s responses to events and incidents, based on real time data flows in the city. This project will build an open, flexible platform and visual sensor infrastructure which allows software and hardware integration of key city control functions.

This includes an advanced Video Management System (VMS), modern networking mesh for data transmission across the city and high-resolution IP cameras as visual sensors to create a state-of-the-art Video Surveillance System. This will increase the volume of data captured, number of variables measured by the sensors and increase the number of datasets analysed.

Linked to its Public Safety project, Edinburgh will also deliver a foundational platform and a network of bin and property environment sensors, which will drive better insight and enable proactive action in delivering services to citizens. This brings together and relates to several ERDF Operations as part of the 8th City Programme: Smart Waste, Smart Infrastructure – Innovation Labs, Smart Mobility, and Smart Communities.

Smart Energy

This project was delivered by Stirling in Phase 1 of the 8th City programme. The Smart Energy project enabled Stirling Council to deploy energy dashboards to track and monitor energy demand, carbon emissions and renewables performance. This involved the centralisation of over 1,500 data streams, 100+ sensors, and 7 data sources across 35 key council sites. See case study here.

Learning from the Stirling Smart Energy project has been utilised in the development of a Smarter Buildings Management project being delivered as a Phase 2 project by The Highland Council.