Client:
MEDELLIN MAYOR´S OFFICE
City of Medellín – Colombia
December 2021
“Using open source technologies, we implemented a successful smart city platform for City of Medellin based on Fiware Project.”
Juan Felipe Salazar
CEO, DATION
Overview
Within the development of Medellin as a top smart city in the region, Fiware platform ecosystem was implemented and configured with 3 use cases for the collection and visualization of real time data obtained through IoT.
Challenge
Understand the city of Medellín performance through the capture of data from IoT technologies, collect information for citizen decision-making and advance in the implementation of an efficient and sustainable city model.
Use case: People flow
To understand in detail the flow of persons in public areas, thus improve the planning of services and necessary resources at all times.
Use case: Smart buildings
Centralize building environmental, electrical and water systems monitoring to understand and evaluate the consumption and possible improvements.
Use case: Smart Waste
Transform traditional waste management system by monitoring and centralizing information from different IoT sensors.
Solution
Implementation and integration of three smart city verticals using the Fiware platform for the city of Medellín.
Use case analysis
Analysis of technical and functional requirements, definition of use cases and implementation priority.
IoT devices installation
Installation of sensors for People flow, energy and water consumption, air quality measurement and waste container fill level sensors.
Implementation and platform configuration
Platform implementation using open source, extensible and distributed tools. Creation of dashboards.
Results
- 28 IoT devices, properly integrated to the Fiware platform (pilot testing)
- Fiware core implementation using main suggested components complying with architecture guidelines from the city of Medellín.
- Integration to existing open data models as well as data lake from the city of Medellin.
- Analytics from context information obtained, for making decisions on each one of the Smart city verticals.
- Customized and refined dashboards with validation from each of the user areas within Medellín administration.
Future
- Expand the smart. city platform to cover broader scale of the city of Medellín.
- Add new and relevant smart city verticals to the platform, taking into account main city problematics.
- Integrate new data sources from different generators of information such as mobility, security, environment, etc.