Messina is a metropolitan area in the region of Sicily, Southern Italy. Yes, the island being kicked by the boot. It has a population of 626,000 people and an area of more than 3,000 kilometres, located between a mountain range and 218 kilometres of coastline.<\/p>\n
An intelligent solution collects environmental and water quality data from Libelium sensors along with geographic information and other public data sources to apply artificial intelligence and dump them into open applications to its neighbours.<\/p>\n
To build a city where technology lives in symbiosis with the urban pulse, a Smart City project was designed<\/strong> involving the state authority for land management (Pon Citt\u00e0 Metropolitane), the city hall of Messina Citt\u00e0 Metropolitana and the temporary business union formed by PWC and Almaviva. With a budget of \u20ac 5.4 million, of which \u20ac 1.6 million is dedicated to sensors. The project is funded by the EU in its quest to make European cities healthier and less harmful to the environment. MeSM@RT covers four verticals: territory, environment, surveillance and water. After scouting for a technological solution, the consultant company supporting the Municipality selected Libelium as the best vendor for the area of environmental control and water quality because it met its demanding KPIs.<\/strong><\/p>\n They installed the following Libelium Plug&Sense! and their probes:<\/p>\n \u2022 Plug&Sense! Smart Water Xtreme (4G and WiFi) So, Messina can control almost everything that may occur in a city in real-time which increases the efficiency of urban services, from air pollutants to water leakage, and make decisions to address any issue. Different KPIs and indicators prompt alerting functionalities<\/strong> in case of unexpected or suspected values.<\/p>\n The communication protocol is via a mix of NB-IoT Networking guide, Wi-Fi, 3G\/4G and optical fiber (with an experiment in 5G in the roadmap)<\/strong> and the sensors used to get all the data are:<\/p>\n \u2022 Weather Station The project also provides a Control Room that, once fully operational, will allow interaction with all components of the city\u2019s digital ecosystem,<\/strong> providing real-time multichannel info mobility services also for the benefit of the citizens (web, SMS, message panels).<\/p>\n This digital transformation also speeds up Messina\u2019s neighbours access to public services<\/strong> through an open website and application that shows the same information as the Control Room.Following this open and transparent policy, data and interface are plenty accessible with a public API to enhance all the capabilities of the architecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is complemented by constant communication with regional departments and other interested agencies. Additionally, MeSM@RT is integrated with the new Geographical Information System (GIS) of Messina Municipality and generally, in Messina IT environment and in the next milestone the intention is to integrate additional services,<\/strong> both existing (e.g. Civil Protection assets) and new (based on funding availability) and align with European and Italian standards<\/strong> in terms of official indicators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Messina is a metropolitan area in the region of Sicily, Southern Italy. Yes, the island being kicked by the boot. It has a population of 626,000 people and an area of more than 3,000 kilometres, located between a mountain range and 218 kilometres of coastline. An intelligent solution collects environmental and water quality data from\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_scj_primary_category_id":10,"_scj_featured":true,"_scj_featured_from":"","_scj_featured_until":"","_scj_featured_order":1560,"_scj_visibility_class":"current","_scj_layout_family":"standard","_scj_article_style":"","_scj_display_overrides":[],"_scj_intro_image_id":4637,"_scj_intro_alt":"","_scj_intro_caption":"","_scj_intro_class":"","_scj_intro_float":"","_scj_full_image_id":4637,"_scj_full_alt":"","_scj_full_caption":"","_scj_full_class":"","_scj_full_float":"","_scj_media_type":"","_scj_media_provider":"","_scj_media_external_id":"","_scj_media_url":"","_scj_media_poster_id":0,"_scj_media_width":0,"_scj_media_height":0,"_scj_media_aspect_ratio":"","_scj_media_description":"","_scj_gallery_items":[],"_scj_related_post_ids":[],"_scj_additional_authors":[],"scj_layout_family":"standard","scj_media_provider":"","scj_media_url":"","scj_full_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cities"],"yoast_head":"\n
Although the project has a final date of December 2021, Almaviva and PWC have an eye on the future and have designed a solid IoT Big Data solution to enable new features, integrations and applications.<\/strong> Thus was born MEsM@RT,<\/strong> an ecosystem of infrastructures, sensors, IT solution and open application for the digital transformation of Messina.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Plug&Sense! 4-20 (4G and WiFi)
\u2022 Plug&Sense! Smart Environment PRO (4G and WiFi)
\u2022 Plug&Sense! Smart Cities PRO (WiFi)
\u2022 Plug&Sense! Smart Agriculture PRO (4G)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Air pressure
\u2022 Air temperature
\u2022 Air humidity
\u2022 Luminosity
\u2022 Noise Level Sensor
\u2022 CO
\u2022 NO2
\u2022 O3
\u2022 Particle Matter
\u2022 Water pH
\u2022 Water ORP
\u2022 Water temperature<\/p>\n