Abertis Telecom materializes the efficiency of its management and mobility platforms at Smart City Expo 2014

Smart City Expo World Congress 2014 is concentrating the proposals of world leaders for the development of smart cities, like that of Abertis Telecom, which these days presents public and private management and mobility platforms to improve the management of cities, like your iCity app.

The Spanish multinational infrastructure and telecommunications company Abertis Telecom participates again in Smart City Expo World Congress 2014 (stand 511), held at Fira de Barcelona, with management and mobility platforms seeking to improve the management and efficiency of cities through applications such as the iCity app, that allows you to directly manage both public and private transport.

Besides, This proposal of Abertis Telecom services to improve the lives of citizens in the urban environment is combined with an efficient management model for smart cities such as the one already presented at the latest edition of Mobile World Congress, with the LPWA network (low power wide area-low power and long range) based on technology offered by Sigfox, specifically designed to exploit the potential of the Internet of Things (Internet of Things – IoT).

This network has already been deployed throughout the national territory and currently has more than 1.200 active sites, thus becoming the largest network dedicated to IoT in Europe, in order to solve the problems that have existed until now for the deployment of this type of solutions with the use of battery-based devices for very long periods (even years) and eliminate the need to deploy a network of Gateways and repeaters throughout the city, by allowing the sensor to communicate directly with the already deployed network.

Abertis Telecom is committed to a management model for urban infrastructure in which both the active (fixed communications networks and wireless internet access networks), like the passive (rooftops and urban furniture), They constitute the key to the full development and deployment of the Smart City concept.

In this sense, The operator has offered some details about the management model of Barcelona's active and passive communication infrastructures, that will allow this city to deploy its efficiency policies in the management of municipal resources.

The modular offer of its SmartBrain platform, that integrates all the modules of the so-called 'City Operating System', It also constitutes one of the axes of the company's presence at this congress.

Other applications that have been presented are the pilot test of a smart parking lot connected to the network for IoT, which has been launched in the Les Corts neighborhood of Barcelona and the Premium services of the largest public WiFi network in Spain.