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A Testbed Platform to Support an IoT City Lab

Authors :
Carlo Impagliazzo
Muriel Cabianca
Maria Laura Clemente
Giuliana Siddi Moreau
Matteo Vocale
Lidia Leoni
Source :
IoT, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 35-57 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2024.

Abstract

This paper describes the development activity that has been carried out for a living laboratory for the city of Cagliari aimed at functioning as a learning center for local SMEs willing to improve their skills in IoT and create applications that will be integrated in an open innovation ecosystem. The many users belonging to the various SMEs involved in the project required an ICT laboratory with a platform that could manage them and provide a multi-tenant environment for the development of IoT applications. The architecture also had to be scalable and interoperable, and the resulting platform had to collect many kinds of data from sensors or other data sources, elaborate them, and show georeferenced information on a 3D satellite interactive view along with statistics on side panels. This work was based on a platform already developed by CRS4 for a previous project. Preserving the concept of the decision-making tool for Smart Cities, almost every component was redesigned, and, in this paper, we describe the new solutions that have been implemented. Starting from the former structure, further features were added in a novel way in order to offer an enhanced framework that can deal with the activities of the laboratory, exploiting the scalability of the open-source systems involved, their robustness and flexibility, and leveraging domain standards. In this article, the main challenges involved in the development of the platform are described, as well as the solutions that have been implemented so far.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2624831X
Volume :
5
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
IoT
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.fb3b3abe4f2a492d92e2db3884e7a609
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/iot5010003