City of things: An integrated and multi-technology testbed for IoT smart city experiments

Latré, Steven; Leroux, Philip; Coenen, Tanguy; Braem, Bart; Ballon, Pieter; Demeester, Piet

doi:10.1109/isc2.2016.7580875

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“…Currently over 100 sensors are deployed in Antwerp with a thousand more planned in the near future. Furthermore, at present, these sensors can communicate with the CoT infrastructure via three different LPWAN technologies: LoRaWAN, SigFox and DASH7 [6]. Multiple LPWANs are planned to be deployed and then assessed in the CoT testbed in order to identify the most adequate LPWAN communication enabler for each considered Smart City application.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The CoT framework has been deployed within a Smart City testbed in Antwerp, Belgium [6] and is based on the Tengu platform [7], an automated orchestration service for designing big data frameworks and on LimeDS [8], a toolkit designed for the rapid development of data-driven services. Both technologies provide scalable and flexible resource allocation operations, which allow researchers and developers to design and deploy specific IoT service models.…”

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confidence: 99%

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City of Things: Enabling Resource Provisioning in Smart Cities

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Abstract-In the last years, traffic over wireless networks has been increasing exponentially due to the impact of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is transforming a wide range of services in different domains of urban life, such as environmental monitoring, home automation and public transportation. The so-called Smart City applications will introduce a set of stringent requirements, such as low latency and high mobility, since services must be allocated and instantiated on-demand simultaneously close to multiple devices at different locations. Efficient resource provisioning functionalities are needed to address these demanding constraints introduced by Smart City applications while minimizing resource costs and maximizing Quality of Service (QoS). In this article, the City of Things (CoT) framework is presented, which provides not only data collection and analysis functionalities but also automated resource provisioning mechanisms for future Smart City applications. CoT is deployed as a Smart City testbed in Antwerp (Belgium) that allows researchers and developers to easily setup and validate IoT experiments. A Smart City use case based on Air Quality Monitoring through the deployment of air quality sensors in moving cars has been presented showing the full applicability of the CoT framework for a flexible and scalable resource provisioning in the Smart City ecosystem.

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“…Similar to the SmartSantander testbed, the City of Things testbed [9] aims at providing a real mass-scale deployment to allow academic and industrial researchers to perform experiments. Furthermore, the City of Things testbed aims at providing a city-scale living lab, engaging citizens to test and provide feedback about novel Smart City applications and services.…”

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On the Use of Information and Infrastructure Technologies for the Smart City Research in Europe: A Survey

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Maggio

Bernardo

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IEICE Trans. Commun.

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SUMMARYThe Smart City paradigm has become one of the most important research topics around the globe. Particularly in Europe, it is considered as a solution for the unstoppable increase of high density urban environments and the European Commission has included the Smart City research as one of the key objectives for the FP7 (Seventh Framework Program) and H2020 (Horizon 2020) research initiatives. As a result, a considerable amount of quality research, with particular emphasis on information and communication technologies, has been produced. In this paper, we review the current efforts dedicated in Europe to this research topic. Particular attention is paid in the review to the platforms and infrastructure technologies adopted to introduce the Internet of Things into the city, taking into account the constraints and harshness of urban environments. Furthermore, this paper also considers the efforts in the experimental perspective, which includes the review of existing Smart City testbeds, part of wider European initiatives such as FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) and FIWARE. Last but not least, the main efforts in providing interoperability between the different experimental facilities are also presented.

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“…The evaluation scenarios are based on use cases within the scope of Antwerp's City of Things testbed [22]. A rectangle area of 216 km 2 similar to the area of Antwerp has been considered.…”

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“…As an initial proof of concept of the Antwerp's City of Things architecture, air quality sensors have been installed on cars driving around the city of Antwerp [22]. These sensors send measures of typical gasses and climate data such as temperature and humidity, which are then annotated with GPS locations.…”

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Resource provisioning for IoT application services in smart cities

Santos¹,

Wauters²,

Volckaert³

et al. 2017

2017 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)

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Abstract-In the last years, traffic over wireless networks has been increasing exponentially, due to the impact of Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. Current networks must adapt to and cope with the specific requirements of IoT applications since resources can be requested on-demand simultaneously by multiple devices on different locations. One of these requirements is low latency, since even a small delay for an IoT application such as health monitoring or emergency service can drastically impact their performance. To deal with this limitation, the Fog computing paradigm has been introduced, placing cloud resources on the edges of the network to decrease the latency. However, deciding which edge cloud location and which physical hardware will be used to allocate a specific resource related to an IoT application is not an easy task. Therefore, in this paper, an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation for the IoT application service placement problem is proposed, which considers multiple optimization objectives such as low latency and energy efficiency. Solutions for the resource provisioning of IoT applications within the scope of Antwerp's City of Things testbed have been obtained. The result of this work can serve as a benchmark in future research related to placement issues of IoT application services in Fog Computing environments since the model approach is generic and applies to a wide range of IoT use cases.

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City of things: An integrated and multi-technology testbed for IoT smart city experiments

Cited by 100 publications

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City of Things: Enabling Resource Provisioning in Smart Cities

City of Things: Enabling Resource Provisioning in Smart Cities

On the Use of Information and Infrastructure Technologies for the Smart City Research in Europe: A Survey

Resource provisioning for IoT application services in smart cities

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