The IoT company summarizes 50 of the most successful projects developed with its wireless sensor platform for smart cities, agriculture, water, logistics, parking, eHealth or environment industries.

With the aim to unveil its horizontal approach to the IoT market, Libelium has launched a new white paper to present 50 real smart projects deployed in 120 countries all over the world. The IoT company has summarized its most successful and appealing stories, developed with Libelium technology and its partners ecosystem, for the main verticals of the market. The white paper includes real IoT projects for environment care, water management, precission agriculture, smart cities, parking management, smart building, smart factory, logistics, retail and eHealth.

In fact, the company has featured some real success stories that are enhancing the competitiveness of many companies and are facing the most important challenges of the new milenium. For example, the precision farming solution developed in Australia to reduce losses in one of the main nurseries of the country; the Smart Water system to control water quality in Vietnamese fish farms; the Smart City mobile monitoring system to control air quality in Glasgow; or the eHealth project in Dominican Republic to prevent pre-eclampsia in pregnant women.

Libelium’s experience and soundness, with real solutions developed in more than 120 countries with an ecosystem of more than 90 technological companies, have labeled it as one of the market leaders. Alicia Asín, Libelium CEO, and David Gascón, Libelium CTO, analyse in the white paper the position of the company and the short-term trends and challenges that have arisen in the market.

Libelium is recognized in the IoT market to offer the most horizontal and interoperable platform allowing system integrators, software companies and Cloud servers to make compatible its sensor wireless network to more than 40 cloud platforms. “Customers escape from those who try to retain them with vendor lock-in strategies. Transparency has become indispensable for a market that is constantly in motion”, states Alicia Asín, CEO of Libelium.

Example of some of the case studies that can be found in the white paper

“We want to show how interoperability and horizontality have helped us to become a world market leader. These 50 selected smart projects developed in different verticals prove that having a wide ecosystem is essential to grow in IoT market”, says Alicia Asín, Libelium CEO.

Out-of-the-box kits to ease the IoT adoption

Through The IoT Marketplace, Libelium facilitates the development of IoT solutions to ease the IoT adoption integrating from sensors to connectivity providing also the access to any Cloud platform. With just one year of life, the one-stop click-and-buy-store offers 60 IoT kits, has involved 41 partners and provide solutions for 9 vertical markets: Cities, Buildings, Agriculture, Environment, Air Quality, Water, Parking, Factory and eHealth.

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Cities are increasing their population due to the massive migration and urbanization. In fact, a report from the United Nations states that the percentage of world’s population that lives in urban areas is expected to increase from 54 per cent in 2014 to 66 per cent by 2050.

For this reason, public authorities are worried about the impact that the increase of people could have in the urban planning of metropolises. The Internet of Things is enabling the detection of the most regular routes; volume of cars, bicycles or pedestrians and most crowded streets passing times.

Map of Dordrecht

Dimitris Kyritsis, Surveying & Geomatics Engineer from TU Delft, has developed a research project in the city of Dordrecht (The Netherlands) to get his MSc Thesis. Eight IoT Gateways Meshlium have been placed in the cross sections of several streets to monitor pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicles.

This research has been carried out for a period of one month, between the middle of September 2016 until the middle of October 2016, in order to detect the road modality and occupancy patterns as a way to enhance the urban planning in the Dutch city.

Real-time monitoring in Dordrecht city center

The Meshlium Scanners have been installed in the downtown of Dordrecht, between the city center and the central railway station. The main reason is that the majority of the shops and offices of the city are located in this area.

Several technicians installing the Meshlium Scanners

Moreover, it is next to the central station, which comprises the basic means of transport to and from nearby cities like Rotterdam. Dordrecht is mainly a residential area so there are significant changes in the movement flows and occupancy patterns during the day when citizens go to and return from their jobs.

Diagram of the deployment in Dordrecht

Meshlium detects the MAC address of smartphones, hands free and cars by scanning WiFi signals. The IoT Gateways have been synchronized by the use of an external digital device (digital clock). Data was downloaded periodically by the use of a laptop through Wi-Fi connection to the local database of each sensor in order to avoid overloading problems.

Meshlium Scanner installed in a cross section of Dordrecht’ss streets

“The relevant employees of the Municipality of Dordrecht were totally satisfied with the abilities of the system and the information that it can provide to be used for various purposes such as pre and post processing tool of urban development planning, traffic monitoring system, crowd control, facility usage as well as marketing purposes”, states Dimitris Kyritsis, Surveying & Geomatics Engineer from TU Delft.

For the collection of data, the Meshlium Manager System of Libelium has been used to access to the local database of each sensor and download the stored data. Postgres has been the basic tool for the data storage. Afterward, SQL queries and python script have been used for the analysis part while QGIS has allowed the visualization of the results with flow and density maps.

QGIS platform has been the main tool to visualize the outcomes of the data analysis

Urban planning: key for Smart Cities

Dordrecht is a city with a great deal of interest in and enthusiasm for the “Smart Cities” idea. Due to the significance of the region, local authorities want to rebuild the city in order to change the land uses and increase the level of public services.

Using the data collected by the system and the known distances between the sensors, the movement speed of each device has been computed. This computed speed was combined with street-uses criteria of the research area. Three categories of users have been recognized and each device has been categorized as “pedestrian”, “bicyclist”, or “vehicle”. Under this classification each street’s road modality has been studied and also the relationship between the categories throughout the day and the preferred streets for each kind of users are recognized.

An IoT Gateway Meshlium installed in a streetlight

The movement behaviors of users have been researched and similarities between them as well as the most frequent patterns have been identified. Rush hours, recession periods and movement trends have been recognized for the different days of the week as well as the occupancy relationship between the research area and its surroundings.

Before this research, there was no preliminary information about road modality and occupancy patterns in Dordrecht. The outcome of this research has been very useful for public authorities to work on the urban planning in the area based on the information from the IoT Gateways and the data analysis.

IoT Gateways Meshlium installed in the streets of Dordrecht

“The ability of Wi-Fi sensors to act as Wi-Fi routers is directly related to the willingness of the Municipality of Dordrecht to set up a free WLAN network, while a possible future re-application of this system could be used to evaluate changes and their effect as a post-processing tool of the urban planning of the area”, argues Dimitris Kyritsis, Surveying & Geomatics Engineer from TU Delft.

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More info:

• For technical details on IoT Gateway Meshlium: Meshlium Technical Guide
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.

References:

• The identification of road modality and occupancy patterns by Wi-Fi monitoring sensors as a way to support the “Smart Cities” concept – Msc Thesis: repository.tudelft.nl
• Dimitris Kyritsis, author of the research project, Linkedin’s profile: linkedin.com
• TU Delft: tudelft.nl/en
• Dordrecht: vvvdordrecht.nl/en
• World’s population increasingly urban with more than half living in urban areas – United Nations: un.org

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Ten minutes searching for car parking several times daily means more than 240 hours per year, and an average of 700 complete days in your life. Driving around looking for an available car slot wastes fuel, produces anxiety and increases pollution in city centers.

Montpellier is a small French city of the region of Occitanie. Its 270,000 inhabitants suffer, as in every other city, from traffic jams and lack of available parking slots. This city has historically been pioneer in smart cities projects related to mobility at first stage and moving to larger IoT deployments nowadays.

Location of Montpellier (France)

Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis (Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole in French) is the public intercommunal structure which promotes all these IoT projects thanks to its commitment to the “Open Data” solutions to enrich the services offered to the citizens.

With its 10-years experience, the French company Synox has shared all its knowledge and know-how to Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis with new and innovative urban services and particularly a smart parking solution, developed with Libelium’s technology, named “Connected Parking”.

Connected Parking project at Montpellier

Synox, who is customer of Libelium’s official distributor Factory Systemes, is actively involved in smart cities projects since its foundation due to the fact that its mission aims to contribute to the development of urban services thanks to the new technologies. Some months ago, the company won a public tender of the Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis which gave Synox the opportunity to benefit from a wide range of projects, involving inter alia different companies, start-ups, laboratories and universities.

Along with the creation of this large-scale smart cities project, the Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis set the stages for a private network based on LoRaWAN communication protocol. Some LoRaWAN antennas were installed by the company Synox in strategic locations on the urban area in order to give coverage to the upcoming smart cities projects.

Montpellier shopping center has limited parking slots and there are traffic jams in some streets habitually. The main goal of this project was to make traffic more fluid and increase rotation at parking spaces near the town hall and a shopping center.

Twenty Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking nodes were installed by Synox in two different areas of the city: six at the surroundings of the Montpellier Town Hall (Hôtel de Ville de Montpellier) and the rest on the nearby Parc Marianne district.

Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking at Montpellier

These devices were installed in the surface of the roadway on the parking areas for people with reduced mobility and delivery services with the aim to relieve congestion, streamline traffic, and improve access to car park areas. In the future, more people will benefit from this project since it is planned to enlarge the quantity of nodes throughout the territory of the metropolis.

Besides, sensors also gather data about the temperature of the roadway which will be used by the metropolis road authorities to take action in case of the presence of ice sheets.

Diagram of Connected Parking project

The Plug & Sense! Smart Parking sensor network is connected to the Metropolis LoRaWAN private network which has been deployed thanks to the expertise provided by Synox, who has built a specific infrastructure to allow the entity to keep sovereignty in the data from end to end. Data management displays show this real-time information and indicators of the use of car parking slots in order to improve the traffic conditions and diminish car parking search time.

“Connected Parking” as part of the “Open Data” approach helps citizens to have more information and on-line data available. Users, laboratories and other start-ups can use this data and benefit from it, creating new services for smarter, more dynamic and environmentally friendly city.

Connected Parking Dashboard

Pieter Brice, CTO at Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis remarks that “an additional step was taken by the Metropole of Montpellier in the Smart City program. The Smart Parking project allowed us to consolidate our collaboration with Libelium and to look forward new services offered to users on car park solution.”

“The Smart Parking project made it possible to easily deploy on private LoRaWAN network infrastructure an analysis of the strategic car park availability, for the city mobility services, the City Police, and soon the citizens themselves. Have a better understanding and a better management of car park availability and traffic in the city is a major key point to improve citizen’s life”, explaines Jérôme Fenwick, CTO at Synox.

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More info:

• For technical details on Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking: Plug & Sense! Smart Parking Technical Guide
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.

References:

• Synox: synox.io
• Factory Systemes: factorysystemes.fr
• Montpellier Mediterranean Metropole: montpellier3m.fr
• Montpellier Town Hall: montpellier.fr
• Waspmote Plug&Sense! Smart Parking Sensors: libelium.com

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Committed to the continuous quality improvement of its wireless sensor platform, Libelium releases a new enhanced Smart Parking Sensor Node, to detect available parking spots, now able to deliver 99% accuracy.

This new parking node features two different detection systems, includes dual wireless communication protocols Sigfox / LoRaWAN and is able to be installed using a unique model over or under the road.

The Smart Parking device runs on a magnetic detection system than can be supported with a cloud software system that evaluates the received signal strength indication (RSSI). Thus, if a car is parked on a spot, the system detects it by the variation of the magnetic field and by the weaker signal’s received power. This dual sensing system can provide up to 99% accuracy under optimal conditions.

The new sensor is equipped with IP68 waterproof and robust enclosure. It allows twofold installation deployments as it can be screwed on the surface or installed under the ground. This feature is specially demanded on projects where snowplows operate in winter or to avoid theft. In both cases, the node can be easily reset by passing the powerful magnet provided over the device.

Smart Parking installed on the surface and installed under the ground

The new sensor system, certified with CE and FCC, is fully compatible with LPWAN radio technologies -LoRaWAN and Sigfox- to enable long range and low power consumption. It can be connected with both radios for the European 868 MHz band and for the 900-930 MHz band (US/Canada). Sigfox Parking versions for LATAM, Australia and Asia Pacific are now available for 915MHz and 923MHz bands. One unique feature of the system is that allows the use of both radio technologies at the same time or switch from one to the other easily from the Cloud.

List of countries the new Smart Parking Sigfox version covers:

Smart Parking Value Chain

The Smart Parking device comes pre programmed from the factory so anyone -even those without programming skills- can configure it in a few seconds with the Libelium’s Smart Devices App. Once the nodes have been installed, the Remote Setup System allows the user to remain in control and reconfigure all the parameters easily from the Cloud.

The Smart Parking nodes have an expected lifetime up to ten years uninterrupted operation, based on the high capacity batteries and low consumption software algorithms.

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More information:

• Smart Parking General Information: Smart Parking Documentation
• Smart Parking Technical Information: Smart Parking Technical Guide

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Research and Markets released the “North America Smart Parking Market Analysis By Hardware (Pucks, Cameras & LPRs, Smart Meters, Signage, Parking Gates), By Software, By Service, By Type, By Country, And Segment Forecasts, 2014 – 2025”.

Libelium is mentioned as one of the key companies for the Smart Parking market in North America, which is expected to grow at a faster pace with a CAGR of 18.4%. The report includes a deep analysis of the market’s situation and future trends segmenting by hardware, software, type and country among others aspects.

An increasing number of vehicles along with bigger urban areas produce traffic congestion and air pollution within the cities. Sensor systems like Libelium’s Smart Parking sensor node helps the citizens to find a free parking space quicker and easier, reducing the time of search and the pollution emitted consequently. The new and enhanced Smart Parking sensor node, with dual detection system, dual LPWAN wireless communication and dual installation deployment, is available in several versions for the biggest markets (Europe, US/Canada, Australia, New Zealand… check the full list here).

Read the entire report at www.researchandmarkets.com, “North America Smart Parking Market Analysis By Hardware (Pucks, Cameras & LPRs, Smart Meters, Signage, Parking Gates), By Software, By Service, By Type, By Country, And Segment Forecasts, 2014 – 2025”, November 2017, Research and Markets.

Committed to the continuous quality improvement of its wireless sensor platform, Libelium releases at Intertraffic a new enhanced Smart Parking Sensor Node, to detect available parking spots, now able to deliver 99% accuracy.

Ten minutes searching for car parking several times daily means more than 240 hours per year, and an average of 700 complete days in your life. Driving around looking for an available car slot wastes fuel, produces anxiety and increases pollution in city centers.

Libelium smart parking technology has been installed in different cities such as Montpellier (France) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to monitor free parking spaces in places such as shopping malls. These devices were also installed in the surface of the roadway on the parking areas for people with reduced mobility and delivery services with the aim to relieve congestion, streamline traffic, and improve access to car park areas.

This new parking node features two different detection systems, includes dual wireless communication protocols Sigfox / LoRaWAN and is able to be installed using a unique model over or under the road.

It is necessary to the Smart Parking device runs on a magnetic detection system than can be supported with a cloud software system that evaluates the received signal strength indication (RSSI). Thus, if a car is parked on a spot, the system detects it by the variation of the magnetic field and by the weaker signal’s received power. This dual sensing system can provide up to 99% accuracy under optimal conditions.

The new sensor is equipped with IP68 waterproof and robust enclosure. It allows twofold installation deployments as it can be screwed on the surface or installed under the ground. This feature is specially demanded on projects where snowplows operate in winter or to avoid theft. In both cases, the node can be easily reset by passing the powerful magnet provided over the device.

Smart Parking installed on the surface and installed under the ground

The new sensor system, certified with CE and FCC, is fully compatible with LPWAN radio technologies -LoRaWAN and Sigfox- to enable long range and low power consumption. It can be connected with both radios for the European 868 MHz band, the 900-930 MHz band (US/Canada) and recently added to the Australian band (915 MHz). Sigfox Parking version can also be used in LATAM and Asia Pacific countries (from 915MHz to 923MHz bands). One unique feature of the system is that allows the use of both radio technologies at the same time or switch from one to the other easily from the Cloud.

The Smart Parking device comes pre programmed from the factory so anyone -even those without programming skills- can configure it in a few seconds with the Libelium’s Smart Devices App. Once the nodes have been installed, the Remote Setup System allows the user to remain in control and reconfigure all the parameters easily from the Cloud.

The Smart Parking nodes have an expected lifetime up to ten years uninterrupted operation, based on the high capacity batteries and low consumption software algorithms.

For more information about our products contact the Libelium Sales Department.

More information:

• Smart Parking General Information: Smart Parking Documentation
• Smart Parking Technical Information: Smart Parking Technical Guide

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Libelium announces today the release of a new Smart Parking solution kit in collaboration with The Things Network and Yazamtec. The kit is available now from The IoT Marketplace and can be ordered for use in Europe, North America, Australia and India.

The smart parking kit consists of several devices which are designed to be buried in parking spaces and can detect the arrival and departure of vehicles. The platform then allows for system integrators to offer comprehensive parking management solutions to city councils and end customers. By providing accurate information on available parking spaces, motorists save time and fuel and cities reduce atmospheric pollution and congestion.

Libelium Smart Parking Sensor Node

Using LoRaWAN technology and the existing public network in over 90 countries around the world, this smart parking kit makes it easy for anyone to build their own solution or deploy it right away. Developers do not have to cope with programming the nodes, they just have to specify the key parameters on the device such as working cycle or night mode to be ready to work. Remote management and bidirectional communication allows to change several parameters of the nodes from the Cloud. This allows for easy reprogramming of nodes by just setting the right values from the web browser in the management platform.

“With this partnership, we continue to increase our capabilities and presence in the LoRaWAN ecosystem. The ready to use parking kit allows solution providers and businesses to leverage from an existing network in 90 plus countries around the world”, declares Wienke Giezeman, Co-Founder at The Things Network.

Libelium smart parking technology has been installed in different cities such as Montpellier (France) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to monitor free parking spaces in places such as shopping malls. These devices were also installed in the surface of the roadway on the parking areas for people with reduced mobility and delivery services with the aim to relieve congestion, streamline traffic, and improve access to car park areas.

Libelium-Yazamtec-The Things Network SmartParking LoRaWAN Solution Kit

“The collaboration with The Things Network and Yazamtech enables the launch of ready-to-use solutions that enable smart cities to implement IoT technology quickly and scalably“, says Alicia Asín, Libelium CEO.

The kit is available for the following regions:

• Europe (863 – 870 MHz)
• US / Canada (902 – 928 MHz)
• Australia (915 – 928 MHz)
• India (865 – 867 MHz)

If you want to join our IoT Ecosystem or want more information about it, contact Libelium Sales Department.

More information:

• For technical details on Smart Parking: Smart Parking Technical Guide
• Smart Parking by Libelium includes Double Radio with LoRaWAN and Sigfox: libelium.com
• Libelium Improves Accuracy of Smart Parking Sensors up to 99% and Adds Australia, Asia PAC and LATAM Coverage: libelium.com
• Libelium Presents at Intertraffic the New Enhanced Smart Parking Sensor Platform up to 99% Accurate: libelium.com

References:

• The Things Network: thethingsnetwork.org
• Yazamtec: yazamtec.com

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The hype of the smart cities is unstoppable and everybody discusses about how the technology will improve our daily life. As pioneer in the Internet of Things and Smart Cities market, Libelium offers new strategic content with a series of quick reports to bring up and summarize the benefits and characteristics that the IoT technology provides to improve citizens’ quality of life.

Urban population has doubled in the last 50 years. Consequently, the organization and management of mobility becomes essential, and the benefits that the IoT solutions grant to the city managers to improve the sustainability and citizens’ demands are countless.

Libelium opens the series of reports with the Smart Parking IoT Solution Quick Report. The document briefly summarizes all the benefits, advantages and return on investments that this Smart Parking IoT solution provides to the urban society. Having real-time information about the state of the traffic or occupancy of the car park areas allows public administrations and private companies to better manage their resources, plan road traffic, generate access restrictions or even modify routes in order to increment the efficiency of the mobility and develop new sustainable actions.

Libelium Smart Parking IoT Solution Quick Report

Smart Parking is one of Libelium flagships. Research and development in this vertical has been always a priority for the company, which faithfully believes in the virtues of the solution. Libelium’s Smart Parking platform has suffered an important evolution since its launching in the year 2011: its dual detection system, dual wireless communication, dual installation deployment, software and hardware characteristics made it one of the most interoperable and scalable smart parking systems of the IoT market.

Related with this new quick report, Libelium recommends readers interested in smart parking solutions to review the published case study titled controlling car park areas in Montpellier (France), a project developed to take actions in order to reduce traffic congestion in the center of the city.

Smart Parking IoT kits at the IoT Markeplace

The Libelium’s strategic focus swift from sensor devices to a more extensive presence in the whole IoT value chain, allowing the development of end-to-end solutions, facilitates the access to develop new Smart Parking IoT solutions with ready-to-deploy kits at the IoT Marketplace.

Smart Parking out-of-the-box IoT kits at the IoT Markeplace

Libelium’s Smart Parking platform is able to send data to many different clouds. Some of our customers are already offering their cloud services and software solutions along with our technology and different communication protocols. You can check all of them on the Smart Parking section of the IoT Marketplace.

More information:

• For technical details on Smart Parking: Smart Parking Technical Guide
• Smart Parking by Libelium includes Double Radio with LoRaWAN and Sigfox: libelium.com
• Libelium Improves Accuracy of Smart Parking Sensors up to 99% and Adds Australia, Asia PAC and LATAM Coverage: libelium.com
• Libelium Presents at Intertraffic the New Enhanced Smart Parking Sensor Platform up to 99% Accurate: libelium.com

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Libelium participates in IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona with The IoT Marketplace as the guest star of the booth. This online store currently offers more than 100 kits ready to be deployed, including hardware devices and software visualization, for different applications that improve the sustainability and competitiveness. The most demanded solutions exhibited revolve around monitoring different agriculture crops, water quality management, fish farms supervision, air quality control, applications for smart buildings and factories, fire and flood prevention, smart parking, among others.

The IoT Marketplace allows customers to try solutions and visualize how to scale them in a cost-effective way. “While the hype of the IoT and the lack of integrated solutions discourages the investments and the fast adoption, The IoT Marketplace helps to prevent customers from getting lost while designing their IoT projects, choosing the right hardware and the cloud application in a simple process,” states Alicia Asín, Libelium’s CEO. In addition, The IoT Marketplace is the seed for the consolidation of a unified portfolio of solutions for the IoT market in which all members of the value chain can participate: from sensor manufacturers, through wireless communication protocols and gateways to cloud software service platforms.

The IoT Solutions World Congress, to be held in Barcelona between the 16^th and the 18^th October 2018, is a unique event dedicated exclusively to join IoT providers with different productive sectors to increase their productivity via this disruptive technology.

Smart solutions to join physical and digital world

The Libelium stand stages the union of the physical and the digital world that the IoT technology currently allows to connect. With this aim, Libelium showcases 6 common urban spaces to set the 6 most outstanding technological solutions for smart water management, for precision agriculture, for measuring air pollution and noise levels in cities, for parking management, for measuring vehicles and consumer patterns in commercial areas and for e-health control.

At Libelum’s stand, the attendees will have the opportunity to test some of Libelium’s most outstanding solutions in action hand in hand with the software solutions of our partners:

• Smart Water. Aridea will show their solution based on their work managing the Belugas water quality with a buoy for offshore seawater.
• Smart Agriculture. Elmitel will be exhibiting one of the most demanded solution for vineyards monitoring.
• Smart Cities. Smart Data System, with the kits for smart villages, will demonstrate the latest applications for air quality index control and for gardens irrigation.
• Smart Parking. The visitors will check, thanks to Yazamtec, the greatest benefits of this solution to monitor parking spots for different uses: emergencies, disabled areas, shopping malls, taxis stations, electric vehicles charging points…
• Meshlium Scanner. The solution to scan devices implanted in malls, cities and buildings it will also have its space with Thingfarm.
• MySignals. eHealth is the new revolution and Libelium has its own proposal available to test the main health body parameters of our visitors.

The location of the booth is on Gran Via, Hall 2, Level 0, Street B, Stand 219

Demo of marine habitat conservation

Libelium has been selected by IoT Solutions’ Jury to be present at the Testbeds area. This space offers experimentation platforms deployed and tested in an environment that resembles real-world conditions.

Libelium showcases its Smart Water Testbed titled “Protecting and conserving the Beluga whale habitat in Alaska”, a project developed in partnership with Aridea Solutions.

This testbed shows a project developed to monitor air and water quality after a gas leak at the Cook Inlet in Alaska, home of the endangered Beluga Whale. Aridea Solutions designed a buoy equipped with Libelium’s wireless sensor platform to monitor pollution levels in air and water near the leak affecting the Beluga whales and other aquatic mammals. Conservation of marine habitat and protected species with IoT technology is helping to reduce pole warming and consequent climate change.

Conference about interoperability and ecosystem cooperation based on a fishfarm project in Iran

Libelium presents the session “Interoperability and ecosystem cooperation: IoT water quality control in fish farms in Iran”.

Place: Room 6. Date: 17/10/2018. Time: 17:20 – 18:05

ASM, Libelium distributor in Iran developed a Smart Water sensor network to measure the water quality parameters of the fish farms. Having information about water quality parameters in fish breeding ponds offers the farmers the possibility to manage their installations in an improved and more effective way, accelerating their inner processes.

Libelium and ASM, in collaboration with Loriot and Daliworks, have constructed the best example of an interoperability project as a result of its ecosystem based relationship: a system where all the members interact and depend on each other. On the project developed in Iran to monitor water quality in fish farms, Libelium is providing the first part of the value of chain, the hardware; Daliworks is providing the clouding; Loriot offers the network server for handling LoRaWAN connectivity; and ASM is providing the analytics, the local support ant the commercialization from the A to Z solution. This is a winning strategy based on the construction of a strong ecosystem.

The IoT Marketplace, finalist of IoT Solutions Awards

The IoT Marketplace competes with Huawei and Serimag as finalist of The IoT Solutions Awards in the Business Transformation Category. The IoT Marketplace has been selected for being a one-stop click-and-buy online store that offers fully integrated solutions, from hardware sensors to cloud applications, with the aim to speed up IoT adoption allowing the use in real projects with the minimum time to market.

If you want to arrange a meeting there contact our Libelium Sales Department.

More information:

• Protecting and conserving the beluga whale habitat in Alaska with Libelium’s flexible sensor platform: libelium.com
• Precision Agriculture: Predicting Vineyard Conditions, Preventing Disease: libelium.com
• Controlling fish farms water quality with smart sensors in Iran: libelium.com
• Smart Parking Sensor Node Solution: libelium.com
• Meshlium Scanner: Smartphone Detection: libelium.com
• MySignals eHealth Development Platform: my-signals.com

Partners’ kits at The IoT Marketplace:

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Aiming to meet the growing demand for greater precision in smart parking devices, Libelium, the Spanish manufacturer of hardware and IoT solutions, has integrated radar technology in detecting the availability of parking spaces.

The new Smart Parking node improves detection and stability performance thanks to a radar sensor which allows precise detection (99%) of vehicles parked over the device. When the device notices a change in the parking lot status, it sends the data to the cloud through the LoRaWAN network.

Smart Parking node

IoT technology applied to the detection of parking places can reduce traffic, save fuel consumption, decrease CO₂ emissions and improve the driving experience and habitability of cities. In addition, smart parking devices are being highly demanded by municipalities to check rotation levels in restricted parking areas (for taxis, loading and unloading, recharging electric vehicles and spaces for the disabled…).

First real deployment is already taking place in the city of Huesca (Northern Spain) where 190 nodes are being installed to detect the occupation of parking spaces for disabled people.

Smart Parking installation in Huesca (ES)

Radar technology offers improved performance compared to devices equipped with magnetic or infrared detection. Moreover, radar parking devices are not vulnerable to magnetic interference nor do they give false positives for vehicles parked near or in double rows. Their performance is more consistent in any condition of luminosity, more stable in case of long stay parking and they are not affected by the proximity of traffic movements such as passing a bus or heavy trucks. Additionally, the maintenance of radar parking sensors is much easier as they are not affected by dirt, dust, rain or oil spills.

“Radar technology avoids the miscalibration problems that can be experienced with other types of technology. By using radar sensors instead of magnetic ones, the system is able to “see” objects on top when lots are occupied,” says David Gascón, co-founder and CTO of Libelium.

The nodes provisioning has been enormously improved, now delivered with default time settings and also unique LoRaWAN identifiers and keys. This allows the registration of all nodes in the LoRaWAN network server at any one time.

Smart Parking overview

The new smart parking platform also provides over-the-air setup to remotely configure parameters such as sleep time, keep-alive time, night-mode, etc. via the “remote configuration form”. So it is possible to directly install the nodes with factory default settings and then update them from the cloud. This feature reduces installation times.

Smart parking devices are registered in the Libelium Services Cloud Manager before leaving the factory. Each user, through free registering in the cloud, has access to the credentials of each of its nodes. The smart parking platform can also be used in combination with the Libelium Cloud Bridge to send data directly to any of the compatible platforms, making it easier and faster to create any parking management application.

The new smart parking devices -CE, FCC and IP68 certified- are available for EU, US, Latam, India, Asia Pacific and Australia.

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The motion of the electric car is unstoppable. Its autonomy increases with every new design and cities promote it as one of the solutions to reduce pollution levels. In fact, the contamination is not only a duty of public authorities; companies also must be involved in its reduction.
To speed up and streamline smart services, an Italian technological company focused on intelligent solutions, Elmec Informatica, has fully automated its headquarters in Burnello (Varese, Italy) with the IoT, in association with its partner, Everynet.

Location of the real project

A smart parking management system has been included among other smart building applications. For example, the building has been equipped with adaptive bio lighting to manage the intensity and colour temperature of the light in meeting rooms to improve performance. There are also noise sensors placed in communal areas to warn when the tolerable noise threshold has been exceeded; and CO2 detectors to automatically activate the ventilation system.
The project also includes charging stations for electric cars placed for employees. In fact, this is a great counteraction for electric car adoption: finding a place for parking and charging.
Part of the energy is provided centrally by solar panels. Elmec has a battery of rooftop solar panels that can cover almost 50% of the energy recquired to power the whole building, including the electric car station.

Electric car recharging in the Smart Parking of Elmec Informatica

The parking area of the Elmec building now includes seven nodes of Libelium Smart Parking installed to more efficiently manage the recharging points of employees’ electric cars. Libelium’s devices detect the presence of parked cars and send this information to the Everynet gateway via LoRaWAN . The station warns via Ethernet when the car is fully charged and sends a text message (SMS) to its owner to remove the car. When the Libelium’s Smart Parking sensor recognises that the place is vacant, another notification is sent to the next employee on hold.

Diagram of the Smart Parking implemented project

The system follows a FiFo logic (First in, First out) allowing the employees with electric cars to wait in a virtual queue for a free lot. They use the company’s badge to enable the power station and to get their car recharged. This method improves the efficiency of the rechargeable station by allowing up to three cars to be recharged during the day by each parking lot instead of one or two in best cases. It also minimizes the time spent on checking free park lot during the day (15 – 30 minutes per day per employee) and ensures that every electric car can be recharged during the same day.

Users are also totally satisfied because they are now able to know in real-time the availability of a place to recharge their car while they are working in the building and, they are sure that, at the end of the day (or at a specific hour), their battery will be full.

Automatized parking points for electric car

“Working with Libelium is always a pleasure. Quality and reliability of sensors, as well as commercial and technical support, is top-notch in this industry. In Everynet we are not only keen on promoting and pushing LoRa technology for a vast audience of clients and partners around the world; we are also utilizing this technology in real life, installing solutions in our offices, for our people, our city, to make our environment greener, smarter and to improve employees’ quality of life”, says Antonio Terlizzi, Everynet Senior VP Head of Global Sales.

Outside smart parking recharging points

Since recharging is a job perk for the employees adopting new technology such as this, parking management encourages the use of electric cars amongst colleagues, thus overcoming one of the main barriers. That is, finding a charging point near home or work.
In the bigger picture, smart parking management for electric car recharging points is the best solution for cities and towns to embrace cleaner commitments while improving their citizens’ quality of life. The solutions can be monetized by imposing parking places or penalising those owners who do not vacate a place when their car is completely recharged.

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What started as a timid suspicion is being confirmed as the COVID-19 crisis lengthens in time and space: there is a strong correlation between air pollution, and particularly PM2.5 concentrations, and the cases of Covid-19, hospital admissions and deaths.

This statement is increasingly shared by various studies from prestigious institutes and universities.

A study carried out by the Deutch Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a nonprofit research institute and the leading international network in labor economics, indicates that a 1 μ/m3 increase in PM2.5 concentrations is associated with 9.4% cases more than Covid-19, 3% more hospital admissions and 2.3% more deaths. The research has been carried out in more than 300 locations in Netherlands.

Harvard University has also investigated this correlation. In a study conducted in 3,000 counties in the USA (98% of the population) they concluded that an increase of only 1 g/m³ in PM2.5 is associated with a 15% increase in the COVID-19 death rate, 95% confidence interval (CI) (5%, 25%). Results are statistically significant and robust to secondary and sensitivity analyzes.

Another study in China, published in the Science of The Total Environment magazine, came to similar conclusions.

The results of this study highlight the importance of following applying the current regulations on pollution of the air to protect health during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

The COVID19 crisis has irretrievably revealed what we already knew long ago: pollution increases citizens’ respiratory and coronary diseases. Additionally, the side effects of COVID-19 that can already be intuited also especially affect lung capacity, which will further increase this type of disease in the medium and long term future, with the consequent loss of human and economic capital due to the increase of public health spending.

“Being able to measure air pollution and take measures to reduce it is a matter of public health and social welfare and, now, also of economy. The greenest cities will be the richest”, states Alicia Asín, Libelium’s CEO.

It is therefore vital, both for citizens’ health and for the economy, to redouble efforts to reduce pollution. Platforms like Libelium Plug & Sense! Smart Environment PRO, with its PM2.5 sensor, are the great allies for greener cities.

The consequent reduction in pollution resulting from low economic activity cannot deceive governments into lowering their guard against caring for the environment.

Other measures that significantly reduce air pollution in cities are mobility policies. Parking space detection technology also contributes to improving the driver’s experience by reducing driving time, emissions and also noise.

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