Caraguatatuba is considered a national case in street lighting and benchmark for other cities around the country; City Hall highlights quality and expediency in providing services to the community. Event on March 20, with a lecture by architect and urban planner Nabil Bonduki introduces a pilot project for a Safe City.

Caraguatatuba is considered a national case in street lighting and benchmark for other cities around the country; City Hall highlights quality and expediency in providing services to the community. Event on March 20, with a lecture by architect and urban planner Nabil Bonduki introduces a pilot project for a Safe City.

Estância Balneária de Caraguatatuba was the first PPP participant for public street lighting in the State of São Paulo and the second in the country. Established in 2015 by Grupo CONASA Infraestrutura through Urbeluz Energética and by Fortnort Engenharia e Desenvolvimento Ambiental, the PPP gave origin to Concessionária Caraguá Luz, the first in Brazil implemented 100%.  

Results will be presented on March 20 at 7 pm, at Teatro Mario Covas, during the event “Illuminating the Future of Cities”, sponsored by the City Hall and the Consortium. On this date, the city hall will also present the pilot project on public safety monitoring through high-resolution cameras installed in light poles.

All investments provided by the PPP were concluded in the first three years of the agreement with the modernization of 19.987 public lighting points. This target surpassed in October 2018 with the installation of 20.521 lamps with LED technology and expanded in December with the installation of 20.800 points of light in all city neighborhoods, out of which 2.962 were new points.

“Currently, the PPPs are of vital importance to public administrations, since, besides offering a solution to public funds shortage for investments in infrastructure, they have operate towards improving the quality and efficiency of the services provided. The response is always fast, giving credibility to the concession before all citizens. Currently, it is clear the positive comparison between the lighting system in Caraguatatuba and that of neighboring cities. With a better lighting system, we provide more safety to the population”, states Mayor José Pereira de Aguilar Júnior.

In the next two years, the company will install more than 6 thousand LED lamps in places such as Morro de Santo Antônio, Morro do Camaroeiro, Estrada do Rio Claro, Golfinho, Tarumãs and on the road sector between Cocanha and Ubatuba. This will be done mainly at points not provided by the initial agreement, helping the city to have 100% of its lighting system with LED technology. 

By July 2019, a remote management system will monitor and operate all LED lamps. This will allow the installation of new apps, helping the city to reach the position of a smart city. Average reduction of electrical power consumption by the implemented projects reached 65%, savings estimated in R$ 350 thousand/month.  The agreement with the City Hall to administrate, operate and maintain its street lighting park will be in effect until 2018.  

Public Safety Pilot Project

In partnership with NEC Corporation, one of the largest in the world in video monitoring, Grupo CONASA Infraestrutura is implementing, for the first time in Brazil, a public safety monitoring system through high-resolution cameras installed in light poles.

The pilot project that brings Japanese technology to Caraguatatuba will be unique in Brazil and involves the installation of ten high-resolution monitoring cameras in light poles and points of great concentration of people and vehicles. The objective is to help public safety, the traffic, vehicles monitoring, facial recognition and the production of analytical data.

“Through this pilot project, we are able to identify a series of services that can be provided to the county and population such as broadband network, high-resolution biometric monitoring cameras, noise sensors and car plates reading”, affirmed Pedro Vicente Iacovino, Caraguá Luz director.

Pilot project cameras, provided with a zoom in of 400 meters will make the identification of people through biometrics and vehicles through a system of plate reading in real time. In the case of vehicles, the objective is to identify cars under illegal conditions rather than apply traffic fines.  

USP professor speaks about public lighting and the future of cities

Architect and urban planner Nabil Georges Bonduki, professor at Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP, with experience in the Housing, Urban and Regional Planning and the Environment, will give a lecture during the event on “Illuminating the Future of Cities”.

Among the topics are Smart Cities, new technologies for a better city;  Sustainability and the future of cities; Intelligent solutions to face the issue of solid residues; Safe cities; leisure and urban areas: the role of public lighting and Challenges for the cities in the future: housing and mobility.