The Minister of Mobility and Digital Transformation, José Luis Sanz Merinohas held a meeting on Friday with the president of the Diputación de Zamora, Javier Faúndez, and their respective teams, in which they have spoken, among other things, the situation of the road network in this province and the possible exchange of regional or provincial owners in their case.
Objective: Achieve that its maintenance and management are more efficient.
In this way, during the meeting it has been agreed that the regional road network will incorporate the ZA-P-2315, eight kilometers long, in order to perform a necessary maintenance and modernization action, while the Diputación will add to the provincial network up to 14.9 kilometers of road sections such as the ZA-712, ZA-623, ZA-624 and ZA-902.
Internet of things
On the other hand, Sanz Merino moved that the Board will allocate until 2028 one million euros within the intelligent rural territory project for the intelligent management of public services through sensors of Internet of Things (IoT). This economic item reaches 1.5 million euros with the contributions of the nine provincial councils.
“We put technology at the service of the citizens of Castilla y León with a platform that is capable of managing, through the elements sensorization, Determinating public services in the day to day of the municipalities of the community, ”said the counselor.
Smart management goes from the Collection of waste to lighting public or water, open road channels, fish farms, cultural heritage and natural spaces, air quality in educational centers and public spaces, parking, or the energy consumption of buildings with photovoltaic facilities.
This project It allows real -time monitoring the conditions that are taking place where they are installedSY, consequently, make decisions in real time based on the data collected and the alerts that can be configured.
Likewise, they allow efficient service management and reduce displacements, and even detect failure points, such as the detection of leaks in the case of monitoring water deposits.
They are currently integrated into the intelligent rural territory platform more than 3,500 sensorized points in Castilla y León, reaching more than 400 municipalities. In Zamora there are 263 management points Intelligent waste, 33 of intelligent cultural heritage, 22 roads, 18 water and 1 smart pools. It is worth noting municipalities such as Alcañices, Bermillo de Sayago, Cañizal, Galende, Lubián, Otero, Puebla de Sanabria, Tábara or Villalpando, to mention some of the 114 incorporated into this list.
More performances
On the other hand, the Junta de Castilla y León has a game of 585,000 euros to distribute among the nine provincial councils (65,000 euros each) for the Improvement of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) In the rural environment, with the objective that any citizen of the community, regardless of the place where it resides, has access to quality television.
Provincial institutions contribute another 65,000 euros so that the economic amount per province reaches 130,000 euros.
The counselor recalled that the extension of Castilla y León causes television coverage in the community is remarkably lower than the national average. “We have repeatedly requested from the Government of Spain, which is the one that has the powers in this area, which is involved in financing to facilitate access under conditions of equality to the service of the DTT,” said Sanz Merino, who gave as an example the Recent allegations to the Royal Decree project approved by the National Technical Technical Television Plan, claiming the State to cover the important costs that will mean the new technical measures it incorporates.
“The extension of TDT coverage is an action of marked social character, as it especially affects rural areas, and is necessary to guarantee social and territorial cohesion,” he warned.
The Junta de Castilla y León has an RED of 648 TDT issuing centers, which allows expanding the coverage of national chains to approximately 99 percent, and that of the regional up to 94.5 percent, according to sources from the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
This network serves around 350,000 citizens, With an annual maintenance cost of 5.4 million euros that the autonomous administration supports, for more than 10 years.
Additionally, at the end of the year 2024, aids were granted for the amount of 906,127 euros To subsidize HD SAT-TDT receptors so that the Castilians and Leon of the rural environment that have been affected by the DTT blackout in standard format (SD) can count on this service.
The total number of beneficiaries was 2,322, belonging to 613 population entities.