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Driving value for Smart Cities with IoT and Location Intelligence solutions
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Energy Management System
- Predictive Waste Reduction
- Smart City Operations
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Telefónica’s Smart Cities and IoT team needed to build a Smart Cities dashboard that could process and analyze data from thousands of Internet of Thing (IoT) sensors as actionable insights to enable their public sector customers to run their cities more efficiently and sustainably. They needed an integrated, FIWARE compliant platform to make large amounts of real-time data accessible to the general public and public administrators through data visualizations, interactive maps, and customized reports. The dashboard would focus on verticals most suited to optimization using IoT technologies: parking, street lighting, waste management, environment, transportation, and service monitoring.
About The Customer
Telefónica is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, with 127,000 employees serving more than 346 million customers in 17 countries across Europe and Latin America. As an innovative leader in areas including big data, cloud computing, and Internet of Things (IoT), Telefónica is committed to improving connectivity with technologies that can facilitate greater communication. In May 2017, Forbes listed Telefónica as the 110th largest company in the world. Telefónica’s Smart Cities and IoT team provides digital solutions that enable a new generation of services and businesses for cities, all managed from an integrated and open FIWARE compliant platform. These platforms gather information from different sources such as sensors, City Council’s Systems or citizen’s smartphones acting themselves as sensors. This enables better decision making to all players from real time information improving environmental and economic efficiency contributing to the development of more sustainable cities.
The Solution
CARTO enabled Telefónica to develop Urbo, a Smart Cities dashboard that processes real-time data from thousands of sensors, providing role-based access to different decision-makers across a city. For city residents, there is also a public portal which offers real-time conditions on traffic, air quality, and energy consumption to raise awareness of Smart City initiatives among citizens. For civic administrators, the private portal brings together all sensor-generated data in one centralized resource for monitoring mobility patterns and for more efficient decision-making aligned with a city’s KPIs to reduce the public sector’s carbon footprint. The private portal also uses machine learning algorithms to optimize waste collection routes. This allows the city to analyze historical route patterns from trash can sensors, enabling local officials to reduce collection pickups in areas with low volumes of garbage and ramp up pickup schedules in areas producing larger volumes of garbage.
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