City Platforms that Speak to each Other

That’s right. What would be the point of betting on an intelligent city model that invests in capturing real-time information from different services if we are not able to make the gadgets and dashboards we have deployed understand each other?

Can you imagine a Smart City full of sensors where we find communication problems between the “brains” that capture and provide intelligence to the city?

“Interoperability and machine-to-machine communication have to be strategic ingredients in the deployment of the smart city”

These questions have been raised by the different managers who participate in the Smart City strategy of the city of Barcelona.

The need for understanding between the platforms that are being deployed in the city is a reality. The complementarity between them should improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public investment in “providing intelligence” to service management

SENTILO (“sensor” in Esperanto) is the sensor and actuator interconnection platform available in free software that allows connecting sensors and providing information to third-party applications. Since 2013, the City Council has been using this platform to integrate data from different equipment, facilitating its subsequent distribution and use in applications to improve real-time management.

“CREATING SMART CITIES” by Logitek/Wonderware Spain is the real-time information management and visualization platform for city infrastructures. This platform acts as central software, providing intelligence to infrastructure management based on the information collected.

SENTILO and CREATING SMART CITIES speak and communicate with each other, offering a real solution for city service management.

Are you familiar with the application of these technological solutions in the irrigation management of Barcelona’s parks and gardens? No?

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