Achieving sustainability requires a range of actionable measures, projects and policies. The Operational program is based on the foundations of an extensive economic analysis for the financial resilience of the Municipality of Fylis, evaluating among other indicators of autonomy, independence and finally an assessment of the Altman Z-Score which demonstrated the non-existence of a sustainability issue of the Municipality of Fylis in the coming years but also the ability to manage issues of an extraordinary nature as demonstrated by the management of the pandemic. The objectives of our Business plan include the implementation of total quality management systems across the entire range of services and legal entities of the Municipality, its technological and digital upgrading and the lifelong training of its human resources. The adoption in the first stage of targeted smart applications proves in practice the intention of the Municipality of Fylis to emerge as a smart city. The Fyli-Upgrade initiative includes five actions that, with the use of new technologies, seek to reduce the environmental footprint and highlight the environmental and cultural heritage. The five actions concern: a) the replacement of light bulbs in public buildings and street lighting with new modern LED technology. In street lighting, the intervention was carried out in 8,366 points in the municipal units of Ano Liosion and Zephyrio and in 8,914 points in the municipal unit of Fylis. In addition, a public lighting management system and building automation and monitoring systems (BMS) were installed for 76 municipal buildings. These interventions combined with the installation of photovoltaic systems and the replacement of heat pumps with new high efficiency ones contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide in the Municipality of Fylis by 3,732.00 tons per year.
b) We create an online platform, with an integrated geographic information system, for the organization, monitoring and analysis of the plots that need cleaning from vegetative residues, according to the current legislation. This platform allows citizens to report in an organized and complete manner the plots that need cleaning, helping the difficult task of the Municipality. These data are recorded and automatically placed in a Geographical Information System, giving the service the possibility of evaluating priorities, scheduling and monitoring the history of the reports. The proposed system is based on open source software technology. In this way, we ensure for the Municipality unlimited licensed uses of the software so that we can design the platform based on the real needs of the employees of the Municipality's services, without being hindered by the cost of purchasing the software, nor by the cost of future upgrades of its versions.
c) The Municipality of Fyli is simultaneously preparing an Electric Vehicle Charging Plan (S.F.H.O.) planning the placement of 46 accessible vehicle recharging points within its administrative boundaries, i.e. in all three municipal units (Ano Liosia, Zephyri, Fyli). With the S.F.H.O., the Municipality of Fylis contributes for its part to the strengthening of electric mobility at the local level and the promotion of the use of vehicles with low or zero emissions. Through a holistic approach to the traffic issue and the reduction of congestion, a reduction of pollutants in the urban environment, improvement of public health, savings of resources, improvement of the microclimate and therefore the quality of life of citizens will be achieved.
d) Smart city actions are complemented by the creation of Digital Twins (digital copies) to highlight archaeological sites and geological landscapes. The production of digital models of the geocultural heritage of the Municipality of Fyli aims at the digital recording of these natural and man-made monuments and at the strengthening of public sentiment for the protection of cultural and environmental wealth. The material resulting from the digitization can be used for educational purposes with or without the use of AR (Augmented Reality) glasses, to raise public awareness of the importance of environmental protection and for scientific purposes as the digital files created can be used as a basis of comparison for their future development. The creation of Digital Twins is one of the priorities set relatively recently by the European Commission with the Digital Europe Programme.
e) Installation of submersible buckets and more specifically three graduated compression systems. The competent agency, looking for technical solutions to meet the needs of hygienic storage of produced household waste and recyclable materials in places that require an aesthetic upgrade of their surroundings, ended up implementing a system of vertical graded compression. These systems will serve the storage needs in certain parts of the Municipality where there are clusters with a large number of bins that present a large volume and extensive occupation of the road surface. Also, the existing bins create a serious unsightly problem due to the fact that they regularly overflow with waste and unpleasant odor problems are created, which has a negative impact on the commercial activity in the central points. With the system of vertical graded compression, the nuisance of odors and images of overflowing bins is avoided and discrete odor-free waste collection points are created, resulting in the upgrading of municipal common areas.