✅ Finalized
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The SmartSantander city testbed, run by the University of Cantabria and Santander City Council, was federated with other European and Japanese testbeds in the FESTIVAL project. Experimenters gained common access to city-scale IoT deployments, open data and living labs under an experimentation-as-a-service model.
To provide federated IoT experimentation infrastructure on which developers can validate smart services across heterogeneous testbeds in Europe and Japan.
Universidad de Cantabria and Ayuntamiento de Santander: operators of the SmartSantander testbed.
FESTIVAL consortium: EU-Japan project coordinated by CEA, France, with Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, EGM, INNO TSD and Sopra Steria.
Santander is one of Europe’s pioneering smart cities and has operated the SmartSantander sensor network since 2010. The testbed uses about 3 000 IEEE 802.15.4 devices, 200 GPRS modules and 2 000 RFID tags and QR code labels. Around 2 000 devices in the city centre measure temperature, carbon monoxide, noise, light and car presence, nearly 400 sensors under the roads detect free parking spaces, and 150 public vehicles carry mobile environmental sensors.
FESTIVAL ran from October 2014 to September 2017. It federated testbeds of different types, from city-scale deployments to laboratory setups and physical spaces simulating real-life settings, behind common access interfaces. The project aimed to reuse existing European and Japanese software and hardware, and to run real-life trials combining European and Japanese enablers.
A platform giving uniform access to open data sources, IoT devices, IT resources and living labs, with federation and interoperability approaches for existing testbeds.
Federated testbeds exposed through common access interfaces, so that experimenters can use them as a service. Example domains: smart city, smart building, smart public services, smart shopping and participatory sensing.
Completed
The project delivered a federation platform for European and Japanese IoT testbeds, including SmartSantander. Its design and implementation were published in the Journal of Information Processing in 2017.
