Smart CEI Moncloa: An IoT-based Platform for People Flow and Environmental Monitoring on a Smart University Campus.

Manuel Alvarez-Campana,Víctor Villagrá,Enrique Vázquez,Gregorio López,Julio Berrocal

doi:10.3390/s17122856

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Abstract

Internet of Things platforms for Smart Cities are technologically complex and deploying them at large scale involves high costs and risks. Therefore, pilot schemes that allow validating proof of concepts, experimenting with different technologies and services, and fine-tuning them before migrating them to actual scenarios, are especially important in this context. The IoT platform deployed across the engineering schools of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in the Moncloa Campus of International Excellence represents a good example of a test bench for experimentation with Smart City services. This paper presents the main features of this platform, putting special emphasis on the technological challenges faced and on the solutions adopted, as well as on the functionality, services and potential that the platform offers.

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In the context of a globally accelerated urbanism process, the sustainable development of cities has become one of the major challenges of society nowadays
In order to achieve this goal, Smart Cities rely on the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, so Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is intensively applied to all the areas related to citizens’ welfare, such as transport and mobility, healthcare, energy or the environment [1,2]
The main goal of this paper is to present the IoT-based platform deployed in the CEI Moncloa campus, putting special emphasis on the main technological challenges that were faced and on the solutions that were adopted, as well as on the functionality, services and potential that the platform offers

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In the context of a globally accelerated urbanism process, the sustainable development of cities has become one of the major challenges of society nowadays. In order to achieve this goal, Smart Cities rely on the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, so Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is intensively applied to all the areas related to citizens’ welfare, such as transport and mobility, healthcare, energy or the environment [1,2]. This intensive use of ICT encompasses from the massive deployment of all types of sensors and actuators and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications infrastructures, to the processing of the huge amount of gathered data to provide value-added services and applications, as Figure 1 illustrates. One of the main projects within this initiative was the design, development and deployment of an IoT-based platform which allowed for the experimentation and evaluation of Smart

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