Digital Development of Territories. Pedro Leite Member of the Board of Directors

Digital Development of Territories Pedro Leite Member of the Board of Directors

Digital Development of Territories Pedro Leite Member of the Board of Directors

Azores Archipelago 9 islands located in the North Atlantic Ocean Azores 600 km scattered along 600 km of ocean from Santa Maria to Corvo distancing about 1.600 km from mainland Europe (Portugal) and about 2.454 km from the North American Continent (Canada)

Globaleda established in 1997 headquarters in Azores about 100 employees business areas: information technologies telecommunications vodafone partner offices in Azores and Lisbon

Innovation The story of innovation has not changed. It has always been a small team of people who have a new idea, typically not understood by people around them and their executives. Eric Schmidt

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Smart Cities water and sanitation technology health citizens government and education energy buildings transport information is dispersed and difficult to access

Public Services public sector modernization ambiental sustainability more eficient unlimited attendace learn from data plan ahead

Water resources challenges lack of information scarce information no design of system to manage no IT support hard network management

Water resources mapping land-use and population demographic managing public infrastructure finding the problems monitoring and forecasting providing the logical network structure

Azores Hydrometeorology Network 82 remote monitoring stations in 9 islands 20 meteorological stations 34 rain stations 28 gauging stations 24/7 onsite data logging with 30 sec resolution autonomous power with solar panels real time data acquisition with GPRS connectitivy sustainable development of the territory

Azores Hydrometeorology Network 82 remote monitoring stations installed in 9 islands 20 meteorological station 34 rain station Rewarded in the sixth edition of the 28 gauging station "Green Project Awards Portugal in the Information Technology category. 24/7 onsite data logging with 30 sec resolution autonomous power with solar panels real time data acquisition with GPRS conectitivy sustainable development of the territory

Groundbreaking Digital Radio Network voice and data communications across the nine islands personnel tracking via GPS transmission relies only between both ends (microwaves) recording of all communications and logging of all events redundancy (transmission, access and dispatch level) completely independent from telecom operators All sites with > 24 hour backup power

Groundbreaking Digital Radio Network voice and data communications across the nine islands emergency, group and individual calling personnel tracking via GPS Azores Regional Civil Protection & Fire Services geofencing on live maps Awarded for remarkable PSAP achievement in voice dispatch 112 Awards 2017 recording of all communications and logging of all events remote radio programming and monitoring

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Some challenges Sea and Tourism?

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Sea Portugal has one of the largest Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) in the World, with more than 1 million and 700 thousand square kilometers (more than 18 times the territorial area of the country). 55% of this area is due to the existence of the Azores. This area represents 11.7% of the European Union's EEZ (which is 14.5 million square kilometers) EMFAP

Sea The development of Portugal as a whole, and in particular the Azores, involves the sustainable valorization of the sea

Sea fishery I&D projects blue biotechnology marine robotics data collection and monitoring of the oceans

Digital tourism tourism information augmented reality digital marketing m-tourism (use of smartphones throughout the entire customer experience). tourism business portal transform small business into digital

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