Opentrends Case Studies Barcelona's Smart City Platform

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Barcelona's Smart City Platform

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms Sensors - Utility Meters
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Smart City Operations
Challenge	Barcelona city was receiving large amounts of data vertically organized, unable to effectively manage and visualize them in real time on one screen. Barcelona sought an innovative way of managing their assets and resources, along with improving their processes. Data coming from street lighting, traffic, blue zone free parking spots, waste disposal and trucks, acoustic and atmospheric contamination, irrigation system, electric supply stations sensors and actuators. Read More
About Customer	Barcelona City Council responds to 5.515 million inhabitants (2018), and is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Barcelona (Spain). Read More
Customer Name	City of Barcelona Read More
Solution	Sentilo (the origin of Thingtia) as an open source platform that integrates all data coming vertically in real-time. It receives, treats, shows and stores sensor data from several manufacturers homogeneously, allowing for better decision-making in a big data structure. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Acoustic Positioning, Air Quality (PMI), Asset Location, Drive Distance, Lighting Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Sensors - Utility Meters

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Smart City Operations

Challenge

Barcelona city was receiving large amounts of data vertically organized, unable to effectively manage and visualize them in real time on one screen. Barcelona sought an innovative way of managing their assets and resources, along with improving their processes.

Data coming from street lighting, traffic, blue zone free parking spots, waste disposal and trucks, acoustic and atmospheric contamination, irrigation system, electric supply stations sensors and actuators.

About Customer

Barcelona City Council responds to 5.515 million inhabitants (2018), and is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Barcelona (Spain).

Customer Name

City of Barcelona

Solution

Sentilo (the origin of Thingtia) as an open source platform that integrates all data coming vertically in real-time. It receives, treats, shows and stores sensor data from several manufacturers homogeneously, allowing for better decision-making in a big data structure.

Data Collected

Acoustic Positioning, Air Quality (PMI), Asset Location, Drive Distance, Lighting

Impact #1	[Data Management - Data Visualization] Coherence and visual information: A powerful large data visualization platform communicating information faster and more coherently, than individual traditional reports. The platform currently processes 1Billion+ transactions, distributes 3M+ data per day from 10k sensors, and has scalability capabilities.
Impact #2	[Process Optimization - Real Time Alerts] Faster action and decision-making process: Thanks to the real-time alerts coming from Sentilo platform (later, called Thingtia) the stakeholders are able to react quicker to emerging situations, and to apply new processes that would not have been possible before.
Impact #3	[Management Effectiveness - Big Data Analysis] Boost productivity and results: The platform made the parties involved understand and have a current picture of global assets, as well as uncover hidden information and ultimately drive operations more efficiently.

Impact #1

[Data Management - Data Visualization]

Coherence and visual information: A powerful large data visualization platform communicating information faster and more coherently, than individual traditional reports. The platform currently processes 1Billion+ transactions, distributes 3M+ data per day from 10k sensors, and has scalability capabilities.

Impact #2

[Process Optimization - Real Time Alerts]

Faster action and decision-making process: Thanks to the real-time alerts coming from Sentilo platform (later, called Thingtia) the stakeholders are able to react quicker to emerging situations, and to apply new processes that would not have been possible before.

Impact #3

[Management Effectiveness - Big Data Analysis]

Boost productivity and results: The platform made the parties involved understand and have a current picture of global assets, as well as uncover hidden information and ultimately drive operations more efficiently.

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Barcelona's Smart City Platform

Operational Impact