BTC City trusts in IoT technology and digital platforms for its transformation into a sustainable center

The owners of this shopping and business center, one of the largest in Europe, have developed a project to improve their environmental and social environment with Libelium sensor technology and digital transformation and monitoring solutions from the company SmartIS City.

Located in the Slovenian city of Ljubljana, European Green Capital during the past year, the commercial and business center BTC City has launched a sustainable project, both from an environmental point of view and digital transformation to be in line with the city's efficiency and respect for the environment objectives to offer better services to its users.

The project is based on IoT sensor technology from Libelium and in the digital solutions of the local company SmartIS City, whose objective is to monitor the environmental quality of the entire facility and measure its social impact. “We have created a live laboratory through a digital platform that is transforming not only commerce, creating new value for local businesses and their customers, but also offering interesting perspectives for the transformation of city management”, ha señalado Julij Božič, digital and innovation director at BTC City.

Environmental pollution is one of the biggest health risks, as shown in numerous studies by the World Health Organization (OMS), and it is the second cause of disease in Europe, followed by noise pollution, which has caused the authorities to take measures to detect problems and implement initiatives and solutions.

To carry out this project in BTC City, the Waspmote plug sensor platform is used & sense to monitor environmental conditions and air pollution throughout the facility, through a wide variety of connected luminosity devices and sensors, noise level, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, distance by ultrasound and gas emission.

Como explica Blaž Golob, CEO of SmartIS City, “This environmental quality monitoring project in BTC City allows the management company to put into practice its innovative ECO Index business model to measure and evaluate the impact of its activity on the environment and society”.

The information collected by the sensors is sent to the so-called Meshlium IoT through the protocol 868, which requires the installation of the sensors within a radius of 500 metros. Communication between the Smartcity Platform, a platform for the digital transformation of cities used by numerous city councils for better management and data storage, and the IoT Gateway is done via WiFi.

SmartIS and Libelium have designed the Green City Kit solution to The IoT Marketplace after the success achieved with the BTC City project, which is now available for deployment in cities to accurately measure key environmental parameters in real time and monitor these measurements on the SmartCityPlatform.