Konya Metropolitan Municipality, which has been working on humanitarian needs such as infrastructure, logistics, water works, shelter, mobile kitchen, communication and energy since the first day in earthquake disasters in Kahramanmaraş, played a critical role in many areas with its Smart Urbanism applications. Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay stated that they benefited from Smart City applications in all their efforts to bring life back to normal in Hatay, and said, “Our Smart Urbanization applications, especially the coordination of the teams; It contributed to the rapid and active execution of our field work in many fields such as communication, communication, search and rescue, and logistics. May Allah be pleased with everyone who has worked hard to get Hatay back on its feet.
Smart City Applications of Konya Metropolitan Municipality, which enable the services to be carried out more efficiently and effectively, play a critical role in the works in the earthquake zone.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay said that after the Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes that caused great destruction in 11 cities, where we experienced one of the biggest disasters in Turkey's history, they continued to work hard to heal the wounds from the first day in Hatay. Stating that they did not leave the people of Hatay alone after the disaster of the century, Mayor Altay said, “We are one of the teams that reached the region the fastest right after the earthquake. We have mobilized all our resources for the people of Hatay to meet all kinds of human needs such as infrastructure, logistics, water works, shelter, mobile kitchens, communication and energy supply.”
Noting that the Smart City applications of Konya Metropolitan Municipality play a critical role in all their efforts to return life to normal in Hatay, Mayor Altay said, “All the technological services we have put into service to make life easier in our Konya have made our work easier in the earthquake zone as well. Many of our applications such as vehicle tracking systems, field tracking platform, satellite internet service, digital radio communication system, solar mobile charging station, business tracking systems, KOSKICBS, acoustic listening, mobile water network control vehicles and electricity generation from solar energy are the fastest and most active of our field work. contributes to its implementation. God bless everyone who worked hard to get Hatay back on its feet. Our state is very big, I hope we will heal the wounds together," he said.
SATELLITE INTERNET SERVICE
Konya Metropolitan Municipality provided internet service by installing satellites in order to provide internet access in the region, since base stations could not serve after the earthquake. Search and rescue teams from various provinces, especially the Konya Fire Department in the region, benefited from this service and ensured their communication.
DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
The Digital Radio Communication System was put into use in the earthquake zone to ensure the communication of Konya Metropolitan Municipality, KOSKİ General Directorate and district municipalities, which served in the field during the days when the communication systems were out of order due to the destruction in Hatay.
SOLAR MOBILE CHARGING STATION
In case of power cuts, the Solar Mobile Charging Station, which was developed for charging the mobile phone in order to meet the emergency communication needs, and which does not need any source thanks to the batteries charged with solar energy, played an important role in the earthquake zone. The device, which was produced by Konya Metropolitan Municipality for mobile phone charging, also provided energy to the machine of a citizen who needed an air machine.
DOMESTIC AND NATIONAL KOSKICBS
All the infrastructure data of Hatay province were integrated into the KOSKİ Geographical Information System (KOSKICBS), Turkey's first domestic and national geographic information system, used by the Konya Metropolitan Municipality KOSKİ General Directorate. In this way, the destroyed infrastructure and superstructures of the city can be monitored digitally and it has become possible to intervene and repair faster.
FULLY EQUIPPED VEHICLE-ACOUSTIC LISTENING
Right after the earthquake, 2 fully equipped water loss control vehicles and 4 technical personnel guided the teams by detecting the voices of the earthquake victims who were under the debris with 3 Acoustic Listening Microphones in the fully equipped vehicles.
ELECTRICITY GENERATION FROM SOLAR ENERGY
Automatic chlorine dosing was applied to the water tanks with solar energy panels in order to carry out chlorination in the water tanks in order to provide water to the province of Hatay. In this way, proper and uninterrupted disinfection of the water in the tank was ensured.
COORDINATION IS EASY WITH VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEMS
After the earthquake, the vehicles used by Konya Metropolitan Municipality and KOSKİ; Thanks to the instant tracking of many data such as inventory, instant locations, progress, speeds, fuel conditions, coordination of the teams in the field in Konya Disaster Coordination Center (AKOM) and Hatay is easily ensured.
FIELD TRACKING PLATFORM
The Field Tracking Platform, which was put into service in order to instantly monitor the works such as snow shoveling, asphalting, road construction on the map, also provided the opportunity to monitor the conditions such as ground, traffic and snowfall on the roads on the earthquake zone route.
MUNICIPAL BUSINESS TRACKING SYSTEMS
With the system that allows the works carried out by the municipal units to be followed via computers or mobile devices, all requests regarding the earthquake zone from the first moment of the earthquake were recorded from a single point with job tracking systems. Thus, services such as needs in the earthquake area, logistics, accommodation and transfers of earthquake victims were easily coordinated.
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The earthquake victims, who came from the earthquake regions and were hosted in Konya, have the opportunity to use the public transportation vehicles belonging to the municipality free of charge with Konyakart since the first day.
KONYA MOBILE APP “EXPLORE”
In order to meet the needs of the guests coming from the earthquake area and to carry out the activities of the institutions, organizations, associations, foundations and citizens operating in relation to the earthquake in a coordinated manner, important points that they may need in the city have been added and made available for use.