Benidorm and Dinapsis collaborate in a project that allows to prevent and solve incidents that affect the functioning of the city

Benidorm City Council and Dinapsis Operation & Lab Center are collaborating in a project of Urban Resilience that will allow to prevent and resolve more quickly and effectively any incident that affects the normal functioning of the city. This project is supervised by Dinapsis and has involved the City Council and all municipal concessionaires, as explained by the mayor, Toni Pérez, who has presented the main lines of this initiative with the councilors of Citizen Security and Water, Lorenzo Martínez and José Ramón González de Zárate; the territorial director of Hidraqua in the province of Alicante, Miguel Ángel Benito; and the director of the Dinapsis technology center, Jorge Ballesta.

The mayor has meant that this project is "very powerful" and "places us one step higher over cities of our size and even some with more population and services" in terms of "governance". Governance, he assured, is "a fundamental axis within our goal of becoming the first certified intelligent tourist destination in the world."

This Resilience project will serve to "advance the consequences of the crisis" such as "interruptions of supplies or issues that affect mobility", and above all "to prevent and address them". From this document, the City Council may proceed to "the improvement and update of our Emergency Plan", and in a more advanced phase to convert the Dinapsis center "into an advanced post for the emergency in which we are connected all the actors that we have something to do in the face of a crisis, whatever its size. " Or what is the same, that Dinapsis operates as a Management Center in real time.

Hidraqua manager explained that from Dinapsis "we wanted to take advantage of the knowledge we have on water and move it to other smart city solutions", to park the "improvised" responses to eventualities that affect traffic, electricity , security, beaches, etcetera. The "Resilience Urban" project will also include "investment priorities for the future" and "how to optimize them".

The Resilience project has completed the Diagnosis phase, which has served to confirm the interdependence of the different services. In this phase, there have been situations of overcoming crises or incidents in public services; and how these circumstances affect the functioning of the city and the different services have been studied. Among the cases studied are the consequences and solutions to be applied to guarantee the provision of basic services before, for example, a possible rupture of the water network or a strike of gas stations.

Of that Diagnosis, Ballesta has explained, "some action plans are going to come out" that will mark all the agents involved how each of them has to act in those situations; and also proposals for improvement to prevent those impacts. All managed and coordinated "in a virtual live environment".