| [iot-wg] Join us on June 30th to explore Aveiro’s Living Lab with Duarte Raposo |
Hi everyone,
Our next IoT Community Call is happening on June 30th, and we have a fantastic session lined up for you.
We’re excited to welcome Duarte Raposo from the Network and Application Protocols group at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (Aveiro, Portugal). Duarte will break down the architecture, deployment, and real-world validation of a large-scale smart city infrastructure.
Here is a brief look at the project scope Duarte will be discussing:
The Living Lab integrates a large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure that supports city-wide data acquisition and communication across multiple urban domains. This infrastructure comprises a heterogeneous set of sensing and actuation devices deployed throughout Aveiro, including environmental sensors, video-based monitoring systems, LiDAR and radar units, and mobility-oriented sensing platforms embedded in public transport vehicles and roadside infrastructure.
These devices operate as distributed data sources within a multi-protocol communication environment, leveraging Wi-Fi, ITS-G5, cellular V2X, 5G, and LoRaWAN technologies to ensure both high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity and long-range, low-power data transmission. The coexistence of these communication standards enables interoperability across heterogeneous device classes and supports diverse application requirements, from real-time safety-critical services to large-scale environmental monitoring.
A key characteristic of the platform is its layered IoT architecture, where edge and cloud computing resources are jointly used for data processing. Edge nodes perform near-source preprocessing, filtering, and aggregation to reduce latency and bandwidth consumption, while cloud-based systems provide scalable storage, integration, and advanced analytics across heterogeneous data streams.
Data management is implemented through open standards, notably NGSI-based models, enabling structured data exchange, semantic interoperability, and reuse across applications. This approach facilitates the development of smart city services in domains such as intelligent mobility, emergency response, and urban infrastructure management. In addition, emerging agentic systems based on large language models (LLMs) are being explored to interact with city data platforms, enabling higher-level reasoning over NGSI data, automated report generation, and natural-language-based querying of urban information, thereby improving accessibility and operational insight for diverse stakeholders.
Overall, the IoT deployment in the Living Lab constitutes a distributed sensing and communication infrastructure that supports scalable experimentation and operational validation of smart city applications under real-world conditions. This work is developed within the Network and Application Protocols group at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal. The initial deployment was supported by the Urban Innovative Actions initiative, with a total funding of 6.1M€.
If you'd like to dive into the technical paper ahead of the call, you can review it via IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10083171
See you all on June 30th!
Kind regards,