The council will use the ConnexinOS platform to pool data sets across adult social care, council tax, anti-social behaviour, environment incidents and health and child services as well as integrate third party data.
Sunderland City Council has deployed an integrated smart city platform (ISCP) to help improve services and citizens’ lives.
The council has partnered with Connexin which will see the IoT and smart cities provider implement its platform.
Environment incidents
The ConnexinOS solution will pool data sets across adult social care, council tax, anti-social behaviour, environment incidents and health and child services from both the council and third party data.
This collated information will be aggregated and analysed to inform a collective and coordinated multi-agency response at the earliest point.
ConnexinOS uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to identify trends in data sets and suggests the best course of action, ensuring that no potential issues are missed, and the correct pathway is taken, according to Connexin. The platform is also scalable, meaning that the council will be able to add and remove new solutions and data sets to it in the future.
The project follows the announcement of Sunderland City Council’s 20-year strategic partnership with BAI Communications to design, build and operate next-generation digital infrastructure, including a private 5G small cell network.
This, along with implementation of the platform, will support Sunderland’s city plan, which aims to make Sunderland a connected, international city that provides opportunities for everyone.
“Our new contract with Connexin marks another significant milestone for our smart city as we strive to make Sunderland a leading global smart city of the future,” said Liz St Louis, assistant director of smart cities at Sunderland City Council.
“Connexin’s experience in delivering end-to-end smart city projects with an agile, flexible and collaborative approach meant they were the perfect partners to meet our needs in the short-term, but also increasing the scope and capabilities of the platform into the future. Working together, we will be able to put in place a platform that will further revolutionise our services, continuously improving the smart management of our city to create better futures for our communities.”
Connexin claims its secure platform represents “endless opportunities” for the city and many communities across Sunderland. Amid plans to rejuvenate Southwick, this data platform will support the wide range of issues being tackled by the Southwick Altogether Raising Aspirations (Sara) partnership, such as crime and disorder, mental health and unemployment, and help to shape priorities and support needed in the area.
Underpinning the work of the Sara community hub, data gathered on the ConnexinOS platform will simplify data aggregation and integration, bringing different datasets into one single space and enabling efficient management of what is happening in the community.
The contract between Sunderland City Council and Connexin will run for three years and will cover the entire lifecycle of the project from concept to delivery. Connexin will also provide training through its Connexin Academy to support those out of employment and young people going into work within Sunderland through mentoring programmes, CV workshops, career guidance, mock interviews, and literacy support.
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 21.01.2022
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