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Sentilo was demonstrated to people interested in mobile technologies during the Mobile World Congress 2014, at the Barcelona City Hall stand. We had the opportunity to speak about Sentilo to many people, including some of the VIPs who were there. Prince Felipe of Spain, Artur Mas, president of Catalonia and the Spain Industry Minister, J.[…..]

Sentilo was presented by Julia Lopez Ventura, from the Barcelona City Council, in the breakout session about “Intelligent Infraestructures” in the C40 Biannual Mayors Summit in Johannesburg. In the session Sentilo was introduced as one of the key components of the Barcelona Smart Cities Architecture. Ms. Lopez encouraged other cities to use the open source[…..]

On December 18, iCityproject organized in Barcelona the workshop “How to do your first iCity app”. Over 50 app developers attended the event. The workshop’s objective was to get participants registered and ready to use the iCity platform in order to develop the first app prototypes based in the data provided by Sentilo and the[…..]

On December 4, the Sentilo project was presented at the periodic BuB Meeting within the Commons 4EU project, which took place at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona. The main attendees were teachers, students and other usual participants of this meeting. Rafa Garcia, from the Department of Innovation, Knowledge Society and ICT Architectures at the[…..]

This morning, the manager of Institut Municipal d’Informàtica (IMI), Manel Sanromà, has presented officially the Sentilo Community at the Smart City Expo, held in Barcelona 18-21 November.

We tested Sentilo with the telecontrol appication of garden irrigation in Barcelona, in Turo Parc Gardens. System has successfully worked for 3 weeks reading data from moisture sensors and one weather station and sending commands to 60 solenoid valves. Sentilo has managed the transfer of data without any issue.

The Internet of Things World Forum was held in Barcelona from October 29 to 31, and Sentilo was there too :) All the sensors showed at the “Walking Tours” sessions are connected to the PSAB (Barcelona Sensors & Actuators Platform) and you still can see it in action in our home Internet of Things In[…..]

We are so pleased with the results of preliminary stress tests that we want to share some statistics :) During test we received more than 50 million requests with a maximum yield of 5,435 requests per second. This peak has been achieved stressing the platform (redis server + api rest server) from the other 2[…..]

Sentilo is being first used in production systems. The remote controlled watering system of Turo Park Gardens has started its production lifecycle in its basic configuration. In early 2014 the system will be upgraded to deploy advanced features.

Sentilo is going to be used in the monitoring of energy consumption in the Barcelona municipal buildings. Barcelona City Council has installed sensors in the buildings to gathering data about ambient conditions in several points and sensors that meter the electricity and gas consumption of the buildings. All the data are going to be transmitted[…..]