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Altair SmartCore™ Delivers Data Driven Ecosystem to Make Pozuelo Del Alarcón a Smart City
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
- Sensors - Humidity Sensors
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Smart Irrigation
- Smart Parking
Services
- System Integration
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
The citizens of Pozuelo de Alarcón in Spain were seeking a cleaner, more efficient city. They aimed to protect the environment, decrease energy consumption, reduce CO2 emissions, and control expenses. The city faced challenges in financing and managing modern and efficient infrastructures. There was a need to improve the urban environment and the overall quality of life of the citizens, while keeping in mind environmental impact and sustainability. The city council of Pozuelo de Alarcón decided to set specific goals to become a Smart City. These goals included detecting and eliminating any excesses in water and electricity consumption, and controlling expenses. The overarching objective was the enhancement of the quality and performance of urban services to citizens’ lives through sustainability, community and growth.
About The Customer
Pozuelo de Alarcón is a city in Spain that aimed to become a Smart City. The city council and its citizens were seeking a cleaner, more efficient city with a focus on protecting the environment, decreasing energy consumption, reducing CO2 emissions, and controlling expenses. They faced challenges in financing and managing modern and efficient infrastructures and aimed to improve the urban environment and the overall quality of life of the citizens. The city council set specific goals to detect and eliminate any excesses in water and electricity consumption, and control expenses. The overarching objective was to enhance the quality and performance of urban services to citizens’ lives through sustainability, community and growth.
The Solution
Pozuelo de Alarcón used the Altair SmartCore platform to realize its digital transformation. The city launched four projects integrated on Altair SmartCore’s Internet of Things platform: Smart irrigation in 11 public parks and gardens with a network of humidity sensors making irrigation more efficient and saving on water consumption; Smart parking in 970 parking spaces with information about free spaces through a mobile app for citizens saving time for parking and therefore improving traffic fluidity; Smart street lighting, by integrating multiple data sources from sensors within Altair SmartCore, the intensity of light can be adjusted depending on weather conditions and/or citizen traffic to save money and energy; Energy efficiency in the City Council with more than 150 locations collecting data and providing recommendation to facility manage. Altair SmartCore enables the development of vertical applications to manage city services in an integrated way. It allows the monitoring of the different infrastructures through dashboards and management applications.
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