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How to keep sensing the city pulse?

Mr. Iñigo de la Serna Hernáiz

Santander City Mayor

Spain

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• Around five years ago Santander committed to leading a newproductive model based on innovation and knowledge.

• ICT was identified as a key area for the city. Several reasons:– Powerful SMEs.

– Strong groups at the University of Cantabria.

– Support from other sectors (among others, financial sector with Bank ofSantander).

• This allowed us to be involved in the preparation ofSmartSantander

Santander: The beginning

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Smart Santander: The key enabler

20,000 IoT devices

SmartSantander aims to

• Provide a European experimental test facility for researchand experimentation

• Provide support to services and applications for the Internetof Things (IoT) in the context of the smart city.

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Consolidation

Santander is participating and/or providing support to thefollowing projects

• OUTSMART

• EAR-IT

• FED4FIRE

• LEXNET

• CLOUT

• SOCIOTAL

• RADICAL

• CLIPS

• MOBIWALLET

How does it provide support?

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Massive platform

Service Provision

On street Parking and Parking GuidanceTraffic intensity MonitoringEnvironmental MonitoringIrrigation in Parks and gardensParticipatory SensingAugmented Reality….

Massive deployment of IoT devices

Fixed nodes Mobile nodes

Citizens as sensorsCitizens Apps

Urban services

Experimentation

Native Experimentation (at Node Level)Service Experimentation

Testbed Federation

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Heterogeneous technologies…

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…and services such as

• Environmental monitoring (noise, CO,…)

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…and services

• Participatory sensing

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• Involving the different stakeholders in supporting services(taxi fleet, public transportation, police…) ⇒ The pathtowards social innovation.

• Attracting companies to work on top of a uniqueinfrastructure which provides access to the city ecosystem.

• Promoting the Private-public partnership.

• Leading technological projects at local level (such as NFCdeployment).

• Last but not least, guaranteeing the sustainability of theecosystem, relying on the public procurement of urbanservices⇒ Adoption of the IoT technology and/or services.

Hence, keeping the pulse of the city by