학술논문

Aveiro Tech City Living Lab: A Communication, Sensing, and Computing Platform for City Environments
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Internet of Things Journal IEEE Internet Things J. Internet of Things Journal, IEEE. 10(15):13489-13510 Aug, 2023
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Sensors
Smart cities
Internet of Things
Wireless fidelity
Safety
Temperature sensors
Computer architecture
Connectivity management
smart cities
software-defined networks
test-bed and trials
vehicular networks
Language
ISSN
2327-4662
2372-2541
Abstract
This article presents the deployment and experimentation architecture of the Aveiro Tech City Living Lab (ATCLL) in Aveiro, Portugal. This platform comprises a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with communication, sensing, and computing capabilities. The communication infrastructure, built on fiber and millimeter-wave (mmWave) links, integrates a communication network with radio terminals [WiFi, ITS-G5, cellular vehicular-to-everything, 5G and LoRa(WAN)], multiprotocol, spread throughout 44 connected points of access in the city. Additionally, public transportation has also been equipped with communication and sensing units. All these points combine and interconnect a set of sensors, such as mobility (radars, light detection and rangings (LiDARs), and video cameras) and environmental sensors. Combining edge computing and cloud management to deploy the services and manage the platform, and a data platform to gather and process the data, the living lab supports a wide range of services and applications: IoT, intelligent transport systems (ITSs) and assisted driving, environmental monitoring, emergency and safety, and among others. This article describes the architecture, implementation, and deployment to make the overall platform to work and integrate researchers and citizens. Moreover, it showcases some examples of the performance metrics achieved in the city infrastructure, the data that can be collected, visualized, and used to build services and applications to the cities, and, finally, different use cases in the mobility and safety scenarios.