Value-Added Services over VHCN
Development of VHCN Networks and Municipalities
The development of public high-speed and high-capacity networks, its support, and technology awareness-raising are among BCO’s tasks in relation to municipalities. Within the BCO project, analyses were produced concerning these networks. One of them addressed the question of whether these networks have an impact on municipal budgets and therefore whether, ultimately, they may affect the lives of residents and, where applicable, entities based / operating within the municipality.
Conclusion
VHCN networks ARE a means that, from the communications perspective, can very significantly affect the lives of municipal residents,
but,
they ARE NOT what can in itself bring significant benefit.
What has such potential are
value-added services (VAS)
which can be built more easily
thus increasing the comfort of residents in the municipality and region
and also generating incremental revenues or reducing municipal costs.
Examples of Value-Added Services
- navigation hub
All the services listed share a common denominator, which is formed by several factors:
1) Solid and fast communication infrastructure for sufficiently large data volumes
The infrastructure must, through its parameters, meet not only the current requirements of residential and corporate customers in the municipality, but also enable the delivery of value‑added services.
2) Awareness, Expert Discussion on VAS for Which There Could Be Social Demand in the Municipality
It cannot be assumed that there is an expert community in every single municipality.
This is where there is room for the BCO as an impartial project financed by the Czech Republic and the EU to participate in popularisation and awareness‑raising.
Promotion is intentionally not mentioned here.
It is up to the municipalities to decide whether and to what extent they want to use the financial support that the VHBN network currently offers to expand the “comfort zone” for their residents and potentially other entities in the municipality.
3) Synergies Within Individual Services in One Municipality and Within the Same Services in Larger Regionsynergie.
Synergies between individual services are the factor that can make individual services financially most feasible, at least from the perspective of capacity and development planning.
This concerns in particular the meaningful integration of security elements, but also the planning of IoT components – cameras, sensors and others – so that costs are optimised and the benefits are maximised both on the operator’s side and on the municipality’s side.