Preserving the compatibility between the urban forestry and the electric grid while making the careful and correct prune of the existing species are activities that the energy distribution companies or a smart city program should perform to meet society’s needs.

The KNBS Urban Forestry is a system for the management and handling of urban forests and vegetation employing a previous construction of a geographically referenced inventory of the trees along the urban streets.

To construct the data warehouse, the attributes that qualify the state of health of each surveyed tree are raised, also determining its possible degree of interference on the electric grid or other street points of interest.

This information can be used by the provider of energy distribution or by the public administration to plan preventive actions relating to the prune or even to the removal of determining tree elements, minimizing the interferences. It also contributes to tree planting, care, protection, and the overall management of trees as a collective resource in the cities.

It is a solution that allows the spreading of environmental education and makes viable actions of citizenship and social inclusion. The population can participate in this management and, certainly, do this with pleasure, as long as they feel that better urban forestry contributes to greater comfort in the urban space achieving a more agreeable clime and even reducing their energy consumption.

The solution is customizable to the regional reality through visualization facilities and the possibility to create special reports to meet the needs of specialists, agronomists, and urban engineers, to the control and emission of service orders or the integration with dedicated systems and control of the work of prunes and public services.

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