27-09-2019

3rd Technical Meeting of the European innovation project

On the 24th and 25th of September, at the AlmavivA Casal Boccone site in Rome, the 3rd Technical Meeting was held of the innovative European project "SCENE - Smart City on the Edge Network Enhancements" (Call H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, FTI - FAST TRACK TO INNOVATION FTI), of which AlmavivA is a partner.

The ambitious challenge of the project is to create an innovative IOT platform for Mobile Edge Computing, where a set of Intelligent Gateway devices are positioned in vehicles that travel through the city and their passing interacts with various sensors distributed all around, both to collect data to be sent to service center, the SCENE Service Platform, and to remotely configure the sensors themselves. Another important goal is to create SCENE as an Open platform where third parties, typically Smart City Service providers, can install their own applications on the Gateway in order to take the processing directly to the outskirts, near the distributed sensors based on a computing Edge approach. Enabling the use of low-cost sensors is another important goal of the project, which we believe can be an enabling factor for the creation of an ecosystem of new services and startups.

During the meeting, an overview was given of the imminent conclusion of the hardware and software development stages of the 1st prototype of the platform. The first devices created were presented (sensors and gateway) and planning was launched of the integration stage of the individual components manufactured by European partners, in anticipation of the field tests. In fact, during the 2 years foreseen for the project, testing campaigns in various European cities are anticipated: Catania, Lisbon, Rennes, in accordance with three different Pilots and Use Cases.

AlmavivA participates in the project with an important contribution: the design and creation of the Service Platform, the control center for the entire platform. Some of the most innovative aspects are the use of the GIoTTO® platform as SCENE Service Backend, the creation of an Analytics system and a control Dashboard, as well as the definition of the communication protocol with all the SCENE platform components.

Participating in the meeting for AlmavivA were Alessandra Raffone, Sergio Sestili and Fernando Chiarello.