Smart connectivity applications in the public sector are enormous. Mobilizing comparatively modest budgets, IoT provides immediate returns in key domains such as facility management, smart transportation, smart parking, street lighting or water management. Municipalities report savings over 10% for public garden watering, over 20% for heating costs for schools, and similar figures for waste collection and many other use cases.
Actility provides a unique LPWAN platform for the public sector, using IoT to enable new services. Building on a dedicated long-range low-power network for IoT, local governments and city authorities can connect a countless battery powered « things » into a single network, enabling data collection from parking sensors, environmental monitoring equipment, flood detection sensors or smart meters. The data is then fed to centralized intelligent systems which can make recommendations to optimize city service management.
IoT also has a positive impact on quality of life, through better functioning, cleaner and better maintained infrastructure but also indoor air quality control for offices and schools. Healthcare systems can be improved by optimization of hospital logistics, leveraging in-home patient care, improved elderly assistance or automated instant contact back-tracing to better fight epidemics. Local governments are empowered to act preventively, e.g. by early action of police in noisy areas before riots happen, or public policies that mandate tracking of shared scooter systems and enforce parking in predefined areas.
IoT technologies contribute to increased safety and security. Structural monitoring detects problems with buildings or bridges before they cause casualties and verify that new constructions and tunnels do not impact existing buildings. Connected fire/gas sensors improve the response time of firefighters and connected fire hydrants make sure they will find a functional water supply. Road temperature monitoring optimizes de-icing operations. Manhole surveillance prevents thefts and intrusions into the sewer system. Online water quality monitoring detects and stops chemical terrorist attacks. Electronic ID badges monitor kids as they go out for school activities. In India emergency call buttons have been used as part of women protection policy. Even armed forces use IoT geolocation systems to localize lost weapons or equipment, secure soldiers during guard tours and prevent intrusions in airports or military bases.
LoRaWAN® fits most low-power and indoor/campus use cases, while LTE-M and NB-IoT may be required for more demanding applications. Our ThingPark platform coordinates all network technologies and provides multi-tenant private network management and full-MVNE capabilities which allow public authorities to fully control their system, delegate management to local agencies as needed, eliminate silos and minimize dependence to 3rd parties.
Although public services and waste management companies have been around for a long time, they have seen only limited innovation with operational efficiency – until now. With the Internet of Things, you can integrate even the simplest waste bins into an intelligent waste management system with smart LoRaWAN™ sensors, allowing for the optimization of collection routes, to save time and money while ensuring a clean environment.
Although public services and waste management companies have been around for a long time, they have seen only limited innovation with operational efficiency – until now. With the Internet of Things, you can integrate even the simplest waste bins into an intelligent waste management system with smart LoRaWAN™ sensors, allowing for the optimization of collection routes, to save time and money while ensuring a clean environment.
Reduce costs and make the city safer with intelligent lighting, powered by Actility’s LoRaWAN™ technology. Install IoT-enabled light intensity sensors to remotely control light intensity for energy savings. Monitor and maintain street lighting networks to ensure city efficiency and sustainability, without compromising the safety of streets for pedestrians and drivers.
Cities are the centers of consumption of energy, materials, thus having a high environmental impact from greenhouse gas production, waste, and emissions of pollutants in water and air. To improve peoples lives, cities now use IoT for air quality monitoring, water quality monitoring, ambient noise level monitoring, and flood detection. By implementing a network of LoRaWAN™ sensors and gateways across urban regions, environmental indicators can be measured in real-time, detecting issues before they become crises.
Although public services and waste management companies have been around for a long time, they have seen only limited innovation with operational efficiency – until now. With the Internet of Things, you can integrate even the simplest waste bins into an intelligent waste management system with smart LoRaWAN™ sensors, allowing for the optimization of collection routes, to save time and money while ensuring a clean environment.
Smart city traffic control and fleet management applications are very beneficial for the urban environment, allowing to optimize city’s vehicles use, to divert traffic in the case of an incident and keep people moving. Reducing traffic congestion brings millions in higher productivity and decreased carbon footprint. LoRaWAN™-enabled tracking devices bring the opportunity to monitor in real-time the city’s vehicle fleet like buses and bicycles, to optimize routes and protect the assets using geolocation. Also, when linked to air quality monitoring, it helps to understand and prevent pollution spikes.
Connecting trains, equipment, tracks, stations, and the operations center using LoRaWAN™ allows to lower operating expenses and to simplify maintenace globally for railway infrastructure operators.
LoRaWAN™ has the lowest cost for network infrastructure deployment and maintenance thanks to its high link budget, long range, good redundancy and ease for scaling densification.
Cities have the choice to either deploy their own city-scale LoRaWAN networks or leverage existing public ones. The network serves existing business units and can be built on existing city infrastructure.
Very low-power bi-directional communications, deep indoor penetration and can work in a remote, harsh environment, high reliability of the network infrastructure and the sensors
LoRaWAN industrial sensors are optimized for a battery life of up to 15 years, and for transmission frequency, LoRaWAN offers one of the best options for mitigating battery life issues through network densification.
The LoRaWAN specification uses 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithms to provide end-to-end encryption using two keys: one for the users, for protection of payload content; another for operators, for network authentication security.
Cities have the flexibility to integrate devices from multiple vendors and benefit from interoperability at the network level.
You can buy sensors and tracking devices for off-the-shelf and also packaged IoT Solutions on ThingPark Market, the largest catalog of IoT devices and applications, powered by Actility
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Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technology is a key element to fulfill the growing Smart City demands. Actility allows cities to enable various services using a single shared IoT platform rather than existing vertical single-service solutions (e.g. a dedicated connectivity network for street lighting alone). The vertical use cases include smart parking, connected street lighting, connected waste bins, air quality sensors, manhole monitoring, bus tracking solutions and much more. City authorities also benefit from a set of high performance Actility partners applications to help optimize operations, automate processes and manage the huge amount of data generated by a Smart City IoT network. The fully integrated solution uses intelligent algorithms, advanced analytics and machine learning for process modelling, real-time control and predictive maintenance operations.
Actility provides its LoRaWAN™ network server and software to cover cities and urban regions with public city-owned or private networks, under a unified, scalable, multipurpose IoT network infrastructure. Based on open technologies like LoRaWAN™, a single platform facilitates the deployment, operation, and maintenance of smart city projects, and potentially offers an additional service enabler that the city can offer to local companies and industries for their own third-party applications. The LPWA network is a cost-effective solution which allows cities to have complete control of the network and data with only a few base stations, and managing sensors and devices with a very low Total Cost of Ownership.
The LPWA network is a cost-effective solution which allows logistics companies and operators to have complete control of the network and data with only a few base stations, and managing sensors and devices with a very low Total Cost of Ownership. Once the network is deployed, it’s easy and cost-effective to expand the value of the network investment over time by adding new devices. It also provides standardized, robust security; state-of-the art network management tools; and high quality of service. Through an ecosystem of partners utilizing Actility’s interoperable platform, industries can now leverage significant advancements in IoT technology, including multi-application networks; cloud computing; data analytics; and a new generation of battery-powered edge devices and sensors. All these technologies come together in our IoT connectivity platform that delivers new and differentiating value to enable smart utilities.
The market leading, most complete, powerful and flexible multi-technology LPWA IoT Network platform. ThingPark Wireless is the preferred IoT network platform for Service Providers rolling out LPWA connectivity services, already powering over half of national LoRaWAN™ network deployments worldwide .
ThingPark Wireless is the heart of your IoT network, enabling secure connectivity, data flow, and management from sensors to cloud applications. ThingPark Wireless is modular, and scales easily, enabling Service Providers to monetize connectivity and accelerate the adoption of IoT solutions across multiple industries.
