Vertical: Environment
Smart City project in Santander to monitor Environmental Parameters
SMART SANTANDER project, which has been developed by several companies and institutions including Telefonica I+D and University of Cantabria, aims at designing, deploying and validating in Santander and its environment a platform composed of sensors, actuators, cameras and screens to offer useful information to citizens. 750 Waspmotes have been deployed to monitor different parameters such as noise, temperature, luminosity and CO.
Smart Parking and environmental monitoring in one of the world’s largest WSN
SmartSantander is an ambitious project leaded by Telefonica that proposes a unique in the world city-scale experimental research facility sufficiently large, open, flexible and horizontal to stimulate the development of new applications by researchers, companies and citizens. At the same time, the network must provide services to Santander inhabitants such as helping them to find free parking spots and monitoring pollution levels. In this case, Waspmote modularity and flexibility has allowed to incorporate a second communication radio enabling experimentation while ensuring high availability services.
Measuring the inertial forces in two of the most savage roller coasters of the world with wireless sensors
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.portaventuraworld.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PortAventura</a> is one of the most exciting theme parks of the world, including two of the most impressive roller coasters you can find in Europe. Libelium wanted to use this hard scenario in order to test the accelerometer included in our sensor platform <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a>, as one of the important applications which our clients perform is related to the location and motion sensing of mobile vehicles such as cars, trains and even airplanes. In this case we wanted to measure the inertial force a person suffers when riding a roller coaster.</p>
50 Sensor applications for a Smarter World. Get Inspired!
<p>More than <strong>50 billion devices</strong> will be connected to the Internet by 2020, but this new connectivity revolution has already started. Libelium publishes a compilation of 50 cutting edge Internet of Things applications grouped by vertical markets. </p>
Wireless Sensor Networks to monitor food sustainability
<p style="text-align: justify;">Given <a href="https://internationalsupermarketnews.com/">recent public alarm</a> at the safety of our food sources, this accuracy of monitoring our food supply during the transport and distribution increases consumer confidence and protects community health and the food industry's integrity. To prevent food insecurity, we require reliable food systems at each stage of the food cycle: from food <strong>production</strong> and <strong>harvesting</strong>, during <strong>transport</strong> and <strong>distribution</strong>, at the shops we buy at and in the social settings wherever we <strong>consume</strong> food, and in the <strong>management</strong> of the resulting <strong>bio-waste outputs</strong>. Libelium's <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> sensors can be used to monitor and control the whole food cycle. </p> <p> </p>
Nature Preservation by Monitoring and Studying the Habitat of Bats with Waspmote
QUIROTEC system has been developed by Wireless Galicia, a Spanish company focused on wireless communication systems, and this project has been deployed in the National Park of Atlantic Islands of Galicia. This system is able to monitor several parameters (Temperature, Luminosity, Humidity and Ultrasounds) to study the habitat of bats and to determine whether bats are present within a specific area.
Wireless Sensor Networks to Control Radiation Levels
The creation of the Radiation Sensor Board has been motivated by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima after the unfortunate earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. We want to help authorities and security forces to measure the levels of radiation of the affected zones without compromising the life of the workers. For this reason we have created an autonomous battery powered Geiger Counter which can read the radiation levels automatically and send the information in real time using wireless technologies like ZigBee and GPRS.
Monitoring indoor air quality with Waspmote to prevent accidents and improve production processes
<p>Many production processes in industry, agriculture, viticulture and livestock require specific environmental conditions to be monitored at all times. Sometimes the process can generate air pollutants that can be harmful and even deadly to workers in certain concentrations. The fact of having a monitoring system with <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> allows to control the parameters of a production process, send alerts via GPRS and even activate mechanisms through the relay actuator included in the prototype board. </p> <p> </p>
Sensor networks to monitor air pollution in cities
<p><a href="https://www.ecologistasenaccion.org">Studies</a><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span> show that more than 16,000 people die prematurely in Spain by breathing polluted air, being the </span></span><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span>traffic</span></span><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span> responsible for up to 80% of that pollution. </span><span>This figure is 4 times greater than the number of annual traffic accident victims. </span><span>In Europe, <strong>CO2 </strong>emissions from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">road transport</span> (half of them come from urban transport) have increased by 32% since 1990. </span><span>Each liter of fuel burnt is issuing up to 2.3 kg of CO2. </span><span>Thus, each person who uses the car for journeys to work (with an average distance of approximately 15 km) emits about 2 tonnes of CO2 a year. </span><span>The increase also generates more traffic jams, which cause a loss of 100,000€ million per year in the European Union. </span><span><strong>Monitor pollution</strong> levels in central cities is key to provide adequate information to citizens and <strong>take actions</strong> to reduce it.</p>