Vertical: Smart Cities

New Particle Matter – Dust Sensor (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10)

<p>Libelium <strong>new particle matter sensor</strong> uses light scattering theory and particle counting technology and can accurately detect the number of particles in its surroundings to provide useful reference data for environmental improvement. With the new dust sensor we can obtain information about particle size and density ranging from 1um to 10um (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10). <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/particle-matter-dust-sensor-pm1-pm25-pm10-air-quality-smart-cities/">Read More</a>.</p>

Urban Resilience in the Smart City: River Flood and Forest Fire Early Detection

Cities around the world are now focused on urban resilience, or the ability to withstand and recover from physical, social, and economic challenges that result from natural disasters, the forces of climate change, congestion, or other man-made disturbances. With the implementation of HAZUR and Libelium sensors</strong>, the territory of La Garrotxa can readily manage critical facets of its infrastructure and public services.

Libelium Adds Extreme Range Wireless Connectivity to Waspmote IoT Sensors

<p>Libelium has added long-range wireless coverage to Waspmote and Plug and Sense! sensor nodes, by integrating Semtech’s LoRa™ RF technology in a new module-on-a-chip embedded radio design for Smart Cities and Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Read more.</p>

New Turbidity Sensor for Smart Water to Control Water Quality

With the the addition of the <strong>Turdibidy</strong> sensor to the Smart Water solution Libelium completes the range of water quality sensors available for <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/" title="Waspmote">Waspmote</a> and <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/plug-sense/" title="Plug&Sense!" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Plug & Sense!</a> platforms. The new set include: pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), oxidation-reduction potential (ORP), conductivity (salinity), turbidity, temperature and dissolved ions (Na⁺, Ca⁺, F^-, Cl^-, Br^-, I^-, Cu²⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺, NO₃^-). Read more.

Smart Water Sensors to monitor water quality in rivers, lakes and the sea

Libelium launched a Smart Water wireless sensor platform to simplify remote water quality monitoring. Equipped with multiple sensors that measure a dozen of the most relevant water quality parameters such as pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) conductivity (salinity), temperature and dissolved ions such as Ca2+, Cl-, I-. Waspmote Smart Water is the first water quality-sensing platform to feature autonomous nodes that connect to the Cloud for real-time water control.

Detecting Radiation Levels in Fukushima: an example of crowdsourcing

The creation of the Radiation Sensor Board was motivated by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima after the unfortunate earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011. We wanted to help authorities to measure the levels of radiation of the affected zones without compromising the life of the security and rescue teams. For this reason we designed in just 3 weeks a Geiger Counter sensor board for Waspmote, which could read the radiation levels automatically and send the information in real time using wireless technologies like ZigBee and 3G/GPRS to the control point without human intervention.

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.

Waspmote to prevent Forest Fires

<p style="text-align: left;">Fires, both man-made and natural, contribute to forest loss. <a href="http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/05/10/2821s698547.htm">Last week</a> more than <strong>100 Forest Fires</strong> broke out in the eastern part of Russia's Siberia, affecting more than <strong>57,000 hectares</strong> of land. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> can be used to monitor different environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, CO, CO2 and many other gases. The monitoring of these parameters can be used to determine the areas where a forest fire is more likely to break out.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;">Australian researchers from Edith Cowan University's Centre for Communications Engineering Research have used Waspmote to test Wireless Sensor Networks for detecting and preventing Forest Fires in the future</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </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>