FEATURE: SMART CITIES
management, environmental monitoring
and emergency services.
oneM2M addresses the need for
standardisation by providing a common
IoT service layer which sits between IoT
applications and the communication
hardware and software that transports
data. This software-based layer provides
functions across different industry
segments that IoT applications commonly
need such as semantic enablement,
security, privacy and remote software
updates. It is well suited to handle city
sensors and the data they generate and
is being applied to a variety of Smart City
services across Europe and in South Korea.
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The experiment consisted of deploying a
streetlight service of 220 lampposts in a
district located at the north of Bordeaux.
The district hosts public facilities that are
used only occasionally during events. Those
facilities mainly include the exhibition
centre, the convention centre, the MATMUT
Atlantique stadium used for football games
and concerts, and the velodrome.
Very quickly, significant energy and financial
savings were identified, as the district
no longer needed to be illuminated on
a permanent basis. Streetlights are only
switched on when there is an event or when
street sensors detect vehicles or pedestrians.
To pilot all these sensors/actuators, the
A SMART CITY APPROACH OFFERS
RESIDENTS A CONVENIENT AND
HASSLE-FREE WAY OF LIVING WITH THE
LOWEST POSSIBLE USE OF RESOURCES,
ENABLED BY TECHNOLOGY AND
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS.
Examples include smart parking, social care
and building energy management.
In the UK, oneM2M underpins a
public-private, data marketplace where
municipalities can share their data with
Smart City service providers in an economic
and controlled way. With around 250
members worldwide, interoperability of
the sort provided by oneM2M enables
interoperable, scalable deployments, reaping
huge cost savings for city authorities.
Future-proofing Europe’s
Smart Cities
Among the rollouts of Smart Cities already
using oneM2M are a number of cities in
Europe, including Bordeaux and Turin. With
a population close to 750,000, Bordeaux in
France had the opportunity to benefit from
public funding to deploy an IoT experiment
using a city reference district.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
digital department did a study of the
network to be deployed and the use that
could be made of it given the volume and
diversity of the operational technologies
to be connected. Very quickly, it became
clear that the technologies used different
connectivity and data model technologies.
The digital department reached the key
conclusion that building IoT in silos will
not scale. An abstraction model to bridge
the gap between diverse operational
technologies and the digital world was
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