Cloud housing and communal services: a view from the inside
Based on a recent topic .
In theory, in a better world, the government makes a decree , then another one , the president gives an order , the ministers, governors and mayors execute and issue their, money is allocated, a team of professionals is hired, and ... after some time, "Cloud Housing and Public Utilities" appears. In the cloud housing and communal services, not only the accounting of meter readings (as the previous author pressured), but also transparency, Internet cabinets, payment and disassembly, the subscriber arranges sitting on the couch with a credit card and a video camera, CCs reduce staff, RSO repair networks and eliminate leaks, information is transparent, accessible and collected in one place, accounting is available, money is not stolen. Seeing this, the management companies are happy - they automated so much work, the residents do not bother them with questions and scandals - everything is clear and transparent, the residents, satisfied with beautiful pictures, say thanks to the management company and vote “for” the president, however ...
However, not all so simple. First, who cares? In an inspired topic, the author and most commentators talked about residents, a little about management companies and resources, and very little about the state (in general, both the municipal, and regional and federal branches of government). Is there anyone else? For example, suppliers of equipment - the very metering devices and GSM-modems, another example - investors who want to connect another water utility or boiler room to their holding (as a whole we call this category “business”). Total, we have: citizens, authorities, UK and North Ossetia, business.
Secondly, consider the question “Who can?”. To build a “cloud housing and communal services”, money (a lot) and power (a lot, because there are still no corresponding laws) are needed. Of the listed interests, such opportunities exist: the federal government (or regional - if we are talking about communism in a particular country, cloud housing and communal services at the level of the region of the Russian Federation), and some particularly large distribution networks that are closely intertwined with business, such as gas and electric power companies.
The third, most interesting, question is “Why?”. Residents, obviously, need transparency of accounting, settlement, payments, it is advisable to peek at their neighbors - didn’t he steal, and didn’t fall on them. In addition, citizens with an “active citizenship” are interested in knowing how people’s money is spent in the Criminal Code and what sovereign’s money is spent on. Criminal Code in some cases want automation and accrual transparency - so that citizens are behind, but do not want to open bookkeeping, so that citizens do not ask too many questions, and especially cunning competitors do not look into their pockets. Plus here is the automated reporting to different authorities / levels of government. The authorities, accordingly, want, for the sake of citizens, transparency, the availability of mechanisms for monitoring the activities of the Criminal Code and the Republic of North Ossetia and the absence of failures in the system (this, of course, motives voiced aloud, we will not mention the rest). The RNO also wants to control the behavior of the management company, as well as plan activities, take into account expenses, and report to all interested parties. Business, as elsewhere, wants one thing - to explore sales markets - that is, to know where and on whom it can cut money.
I will not describe the horrors of implementation, failure to meet deadlines and lack of funding, a respected reader has long been familiar with this. This is all more or less solvable, and time can be delayed - the task is oh, how important, and additional investments can be organized - the benefit is a monetary issue, and there are also enough specialists in the country. The problem is different - the problem is that, by and large, most interested people do not really need it. Citizens need only to not steal money, but it was convenient to pay. UK - to do less, and tariffs are higher. RNO - to make investment programs new every year. Authorities - well, here as usual. And the business ... the big one does not want to invest money in it - but it is not always possible to agree with the authorities.
As a result, those who are really interested in implementing such a monster are a couple of disgruntled geeks, one politician briskly tearing to power, a modern yet honest UK, decaying small RSO ... they all try pieces, with GSM modems and rotting copper lines, out of habit, build a bright future. And grandmothers who live on pension go to the UK to chat in line, the UK draws the necessary numbers and manages the money as he wants, it is convenient for anyone. The North Ossetia is burying another million in the ground, and the government ... waging noisy battles in front of its people, well ... as usual, in general. Exceptions are rare, but they still occur.
In a better world ...
In theory, in a better world, the government makes a decree , then another one , the president gives an order , the ministers, governors and mayors execute and issue their, money is allocated, a team of professionals is hired, and ... after some time, "Cloud Housing and Public Utilities" appears. In the cloud housing and communal services, not only the accounting of meter readings (as the previous author pressured), but also transparency, Internet cabinets, payment and disassembly, the subscriber arranges sitting on the couch with a credit card and a video camera, CCs reduce staff, RSO repair networks and eliminate leaks, information is transparent, accessible and collected in one place, accounting is available, money is not stolen. Seeing this, the management companies are happy - they automated so much work, the residents do not bother them with questions and scandals - everything is clear and transparent, the residents, satisfied with beautiful pictures, say thanks to the management company and vote “for” the president, however ...
Life is a bitch
However, not all so simple. First, who cares? In an inspired topic, the author and most commentators talked about residents, a little about management companies and resources, and very little about the state (in general, both the municipal, and regional and federal branches of government). Is there anyone else? For example, suppliers of equipment - the very metering devices and GSM-modems, another example - investors who want to connect another water utility or boiler room to their holding (as a whole we call this category “business”). Total, we have: citizens, authorities, UK and North Ossetia, business.
Secondly, consider the question “Who can?”. To build a “cloud housing and communal services”, money (a lot) and power (a lot, because there are still no corresponding laws) are needed. Of the listed interests, such opportunities exist: the federal government (or regional - if we are talking about communism in a particular country, cloud housing and communal services at the level of the region of the Russian Federation), and some particularly large distribution networks that are closely intertwined with business, such as gas and electric power companies.
The third, most interesting, question is “Why?”. Residents, obviously, need transparency of accounting, settlement, payments, it is advisable to peek at their neighbors - didn’t he steal, and didn’t fall on them. In addition, citizens with an “active citizenship” are interested in knowing how people’s money is spent in the Criminal Code and what sovereign’s money is spent on. Criminal Code in some cases want automation and accrual transparency - so that citizens are behind, but do not want to open bookkeeping, so that citizens do not ask too many questions, and especially cunning competitors do not look into their pockets. Plus here is the automated reporting to different authorities / levels of government. The authorities, accordingly, want, for the sake of citizens, transparency, the availability of mechanisms for monitoring the activities of the Criminal Code and the Republic of North Ossetia and the absence of failures in the system (this, of course, motives voiced aloud, we will not mention the rest). The RNO also wants to control the behavior of the management company, as well as plan activities, take into account expenses, and report to all interested parties. Business, as elsewhere, wants one thing - to explore sales markets - that is, to know where and on whom it can cut money.
And then you die
I will not describe the horrors of implementation, failure to meet deadlines and lack of funding, a respected reader has long been familiar with this. This is all more or less solvable, and time can be delayed - the task is oh, how important, and additional investments can be organized - the benefit is a monetary issue, and there are also enough specialists in the country. The problem is different - the problem is that, by and large, most interested people do not really need it. Citizens need only to not steal money, but it was convenient to pay. UK - to do less, and tariffs are higher. RNO - to make investment programs new every year. Authorities - well, here as usual. And the business ... the big one does not want to invest money in it - but it is not always possible to agree with the authorities.
As a result, those who are really interested in implementing such a monster are a couple of disgruntled geeks, one politician briskly tearing to power, a modern yet honest UK, decaying small RSO ... they all try pieces, with GSM modems and rotting copper lines, out of habit, build a bright future. And grandmothers who live on pension go to the UK to chat in line, the UK draws the necessary numbers and manages the money as he wants, it is convenient for anyone. The North Ossetia is burying another million in the ground, and the government ... waging noisy battles in front of its people, well ... as usual, in general. Exceptions are rare, but they still occur.