Bari: “Tim – Urban Vision” project. Installation of digital booths in the area. The municipal council approves the guidelines.

On the proposal of the councilor and deputy mayor Eugenio Di Sciascio, yesterday morning the municipal council has approved the political guidelines for the definition of a collaboration agreement with Tim SpA for the implementation of the digital telephone booth project and related innovative services in the territory of the Municipality of Bari.

In recent months the company TIM SpA has presented the project called "TIM - Urban Vision" through which it plans to divest, compared to 19.000 cabins active on the national territory, 15.000 cabins of the mobile radio service, keeping 1.500 active in places of social importance (barracks, hospitals, prisons, etc.) and transforming another 2.500 into "digital cabins".

The Municipality of Bari intends to participate in this project, as part of the innovation strategy in the management of public servicesi, implemented through the introduction of new technologies for the so-called Smart City, and in implementation of the Metropolitan Digital Agenda, with today's resolution has started the procedural process recognizing the public interest in the implementation of the "TIM - Urban Vision" project ”, which involves the installation of digital telephone booths throughout the city.

“We are happy that Tim has selected Bari together with 13 other Italian cities as the location for the testing of this highly innovative project – explains Di Sciascio –. We have taken the opportunity of this collaboration to provide the city with a contact and information facility at the service of citizens which on the one hand is part of the process of digitalisation of services that the administration has been pursuing for some time, and on the other is capable of dialogue with the new users of the city: young people, tourists and workers now accustomed to experiencing the urban dimension through technology. Currently the project involves the localization of approximately 70 digital booths in positions that will be agreed between the Municipality and TIM as part of the collaboration agreement which will determine the operational details of the intervention".

Some explanatory elements of the Tim Urban Vision project

The digital booths are intelligent stations equipped with large touch screens and intend to represent an advanced and inclusive presence in the area, with sensor applications that will also allow people with motor disabilities, linguistic or visual barriers, to access information and digital services in a personalized, simple and fast.

These new spaces allow maximum accessibility to the services made available, adapting to the user's needs and not vice versa. In particular, the digital booths will be equipped with instructions for use in Braille and will also be manageable via voice commands, they will be able to recognize the height of the user using special proximity sensors and to provide contextualised content based on the user's profile. user.

These are real "smart stations" with various services for the community: from infotainment to smartphone charging, from digital payments to ticketing to free calls to national landlines and mobile numbers.

They will be installed in the area, in particular in places of tourist interest, and will also become an important security safeguard thanks to their video surveillance functions and “Women+” button for women in dangerous situations. This last function involves the provision of a system that allows access to a real time support service with an operator to signal, manage and assist in situations of potential risk through an alarm system, a lighting system for the perimeter of the cabin and the direct connection with the police.

Finally, within the new principals it will be possible to progressively implement further services of general interest and public utility, institutional information, cultural and neighborhood news and data relating to mobility, ticket purchasing service for various public services, collection of data and information on the city through the sensors with which the cabins are equipped (air quality, traffic and urban mobility , noise pollution, weather, safety and lighting).