Smart cities: CPQD IoT pilots, in Campinas, have execution approved by BNDES
Encourage the development of applications for Internet das Coisas (IoT) in the urban environment, especially in the areas of public safety, mobility, energy efficiency and civil defense. This is the main objective of CPQD's IoT pilot project for smart cities, which has just been approved by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). BNDES' contribution to the project is R$ 2,98 million.
CPQD's proposal is to implement four innovative Internet of Things use cases, in a real environment of great national relevance – the city of Campinas, in the interior of São Paulo. The use cases integrate the four layers of IoT (devices, connectivity, operation support and security) and are interoperable, through the use of the dojot open source platform, developed by CPQD.
“This is a complex project, whichtempla several IoT applications aimed at improving citizens' lives in smart cities”, says CPQD president Sebastião Sahão Júnior. He recalls that, according to the study Internet of Things: An action plan for Brazil, carried out for the BNDES and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (by the consortium formed by McKinsey, CPQD and Pereira Neto/Macedo Advogados ), cities present challenges both for public managers and for the private sector, in several areas. “With the proper use of IoT technologies, it is possible to overcome these challenges and contribute to greater management efficiency and improved quality of services provided to the population of cities”, he adds.
To meet the complexity of the project, the two pilotstemimplemented in the plan approved by BNDES will be conducted by CPQD together with an ecossistema formed by 15 partners – including users (departments and public companies, for example), startups, service companies and global technology giants, operating in the various links of the IoT chain.
The pilots
The first pilot consists of three use cases, which focus on the challenges of expanding the surveillance and monitoring capacity of areas of the city to mitigate risk situations to citizen security. One of these applications involves the use of video surveillance, with high definition cameras, aided by computer vision, with the aim of increasing the productivity of public safety agents.
Another use case consists of a vehicle and license plate monitoring portal, aiming to improve security and urban mobility. To this end, the intention is to expand the number of vehicle recognition and identification portals equipped with smart cameras connected via state-of-the-art IoT wireless technology.
The third use case of this pilot foresees the measurement of microclimate in the urban area, through compact and connected meteorological stations that will work integrated with river level sensors in strategic points of the city. This will allow providing relevant data, in the temappropriate, for the Civil Defense to issue alerts that may mitigate the impact caused by environmental disasters.
The project's second pilot involves the use case of a telemanagement platform for public lighting, to be implemented in an area of the city center. “The objective is to improve the provision of public lighting services, especially with regard to pricing based on actual energy consumption, in addition to enabling new business models for services that add value to the public lighting network, such as the microlocation of assets. and the very connectivity of compact meteorological stations”, says Maurício Casotti, manager of Business Development in Smart Cities at CPQD.
In addition to the implementation and integration of use cases, the project also includes the evaluation of the results and impacts of the IoT application in the city. The intention is not only to validate the technology or implemented solutions, but mainly to evaluate their application in the urban environment, in order to extract lessons that will guide the dissemination of the experience to other cities. “The purpose of our project is to integrate and validate all these solutions in the living lab in Campinas, so that their use can be replicated in other Brazilian cities”, emphasizes Casotti. “As important as the evaluation is the dissemination to society of the learning accumulated during the execution of the pilots”, he concludes.