Smart CEI Moncloa: an IoT-based platform for people flow and environmental monitoring on a smart university campus

M. Álvarez-Campana, G. López, E. Vázquez, V.A. Villagra, J.J. Berrocal

Sensors Vol. 17, nº. 12, pp. 2856-1 - 2856-24

Summary:

Internet of Things platforms for Smart Cities are technologically complex and deploying them at large scale involves high costs and risks. Therefore, pilot schemes that allow validating proof of concepts, experimenting with different technologies and services, and fine-tuning them before migrating them to actual scenarios, are especially important in this context. The IoT platform deployed across the engineering schools of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in the Moncloa Campus of International Excellence represents a good example of a test bench for experimentation with Smart City services. This paper presents the main features of this platform, putting special emphasis on the technological challenges faced and on the solutions adopted, as well as on the functionality, services and potential that the platform offers.

Keywords: Arduino; IoT; MQTT; Raspberry Pi; Wi-Fi; environmental monitoring; people flow monitoring; sensor networks; smart cities; visual analytics

JCR Impact Factor and WoS quartile: 2,475 - Q1 (2017); 3,400 - Q2 (2023)

DOI reference: https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122856

Published on paper: December 2017.

Published on-line: December 2017.

Citation:
M. Álvarez-Campana, G. López, E. Vázquez, V.A. Villagra, J.J. Berrocal, Smart CEI Moncloa: an IoT-based platform for people flow and environmental monitoring on a smart university campus. Sensors. Vol. 17, nº. 12, pp. 2856-1 - 2856-24, December 2017. [Online: December 2017]