World practice and Russian experience of housing and utilities sector digitization

The housing and utilities infrastructure is a socially significant branch of economy for life support of population and satisfactory of their demands for adequate housing and utilities services. Implementation of digital technologies in the housing and utilities infrastructure is justified under the program “Digital economy of the Russian Federation” and the concept “Russian smart cities”. It was found out that using the technology of Internet of Things in the housing and utilities infrastructure allows to increase efficiency of business-process, reduce costs for maintenance and operation of housing facilities, and to optimize the payment system of the housing and utilities services. It is established that the driver for development of housing and utilities infrastructure digitization shall be implementation of intelligent devices for metering all types of resources and power consumption in dwelling houses which will be gradually unified in the intelligence system of settlement for recourses consumption based on SIM-cards