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For a venue to be smart it requires the deployment of many types of sensors and actuators, devices and controllers as well as the infrastructure to connect all this. The sensors deployed will collect different types of data based on the type of sensor: temperature or humidity sensors, counters, level sensors, status sensors, etc.

The collected information is then exchanged through an IoT network where all sensors are connected and can interact ones with each other’s thanks to an appropriate control and analytics’ central system.

A network expected to connect thousands or millions of objects, often spread in remote areas and in difficult locations, and devoted to transport small pieces of information but on a regular basis –when an event happens– have to be specific. The so called Low Power Wide Area networks (LPWA) have been deployed to that purpose.

Cellnex manages various types of LPWA networks. Acting as infrastructure provider for SIGFOX in Spain and Portugal, also in Switzerland in collaboration with Heliot and rolling out LORA networks for private networks in Spain and Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland through an agreement with Everynet.

Once the sensors and network are in place, the true value generation relies on securely collecting and processing large amounts of data from different sources in real time, to make decisions. Cellnex SmartBrain platform provides real-time reliable information for decision-making, co-creation of solutions designed around people and things and is able to create tangible and measurable results.

All, with the objective to help optimizing our client’s day-to-day processes in combination with their existing systems and solutions.

IoT networks, deployed through Cellnex’s extensive infrastructure network, enable a wide variety of solutions and services to be implemented, while providing information in real time and remotely to help manage them. These principally include urban services for comprehensive water management (references: Valencia, Burjasot, La Pobla de Farnals and L’Hospitalet in Spain); car park management (references: Barcelona, Torrent and Alzira in Spain; Elis University in Italy; Edenderry in Ireland); waste collection (references: Burjasot, La Pobla de Farnals and Reus in Spain); and comprehensive service management (references: the City Os platform in Barcelona, Connecta in Valencia and Smart Eivissa in Spain).

Also services to industry for tracking or monitoring assets throughout their value chain (references: Correos and ServiCaixa in Spain) and services to manage social housing, for monitoring and improving the comfort and energy efficiency of such homes, specially designed for groups at risk of exclusion (references: Barcelona, Bilbao and Vitoria in Spain).