Retail: Smart City project in Ljubljana Shopping and Business Centre to follow its Green Mission strategy

Air pollution is one of the major environment risks to health. According to a report from WHO cutting down gases and pollutants emissions can reduce the burden of hearth and respiratory diseases like stroke, lung cancer and asthma. In fact this pollution generated by vehicles, industries and energy production kills 800,000 people annually by Health and Environment Linkages Initiative.

Noise pollution is the second cause of illness for environmental reasons after air pollution in Europe. Traffic congestion, civil works or industry in urban areas impact adversely exposing people to high sound levels. This exposure can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases and also high blood pressure.

BTC City is one of the largest shopping and business centres in Europe located in Ljubljana, the 2016 European Green Capital. It has trusted SmartIS City Ltd, a company that provides digital transformation solutions for cities and municipalities, and Libelium to develop a project to improve its environmental and social commitment.

Ambient and environmental conditions monitoring

Many worldwide cities are following environmental standards to reduce the number of illnesses induced by air pollution and to lower emissions. These cities are changing their attitude towards the environment and, above all, taking action. For that reason, they need to detect the problems and respond with green projects installing wireless sensor networks.

This Smart City project is based on a Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform that has been installed in the BTC City shopping area in Ljubljana to control ambient conditions and air pollution. The devices and sensors installed are:

• Waspmote Plug & Sense! Ambient Control:
• Luminosity
• Temperature and humidity
• Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO:
• Luminosity
• Noise
• Ultrasound distance.
• Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Environment PRO:
• Temperature, humidity and air pressure
• CO
• O₃
• NO
• NO₂

The information collected by the sensors is sent to Meshlium IoT Gateway through 868 protocol, which requires to locate sensors within a radius of 500 meters. The communication among the SmartCityPlatform and the IoT Gateway has been carried out via WIFI.

SmartCityPlatform is an innovative platform for digital transformation of cities. It serves cities as a smart governance tool and a big data market place and creates value for future city development. The platform enables better management of urban, socio-economic and technological development of the city helping city leaders to make better decisions and to create green cities as better places for living.

Green solution to achieve social commitment

The goals of this project has been aligned with sustainable goals of the City of Ljubljana. In words of the mayor, Zoran Janković, at Ljubljana Forum 2016 Future of Cities conference: “More cities should adapt the vision of green cities and work towards providing best services for their citizens”.

“We have created a BTC City Living Lab Digital Platform, which is transforming not only shopping industry and creating new value for local businesses and their customers, but holds prospect for transforming management of cities as well”, has said Julij Božič, Chief Innovation and Digital Officer at BTC.

This solution supports BTC Company to follow its Green Mission strategy, which is oriented towards sustainable development and creating a better environment for local people, visitors and businesses.

“This environmental quality monitoring project in BTC City area supports the company in following its innovative business model ECO Index for measuring and assessing the impacts of their activities on the environment and society”, has stated Blaž Golob, CEO and Partner of SmartIS City Ltd.

SmartIS and Libelium have designed a Green City Kit for The IoT Marketplace after the successful story of implementing network of sensors in BTC Company. This ready-to-be-deployed solution allows cities to carefully measure key environmental parameters in real-time and monitor these measurement in the SmartCityPlatform.

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More info:

• For technical details on Waspmote hardware, sensors and how to program a Smart Environment PRO application: Gases PRO Board Technical Guide
• For technical details on Waspmote hardware, sensors and how to program a Smart Cities PRO application: Smart Cities PRO Technical Guide
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.