Maurício Casotti, Business Development Manager
in CPQD Smart Cities
Encourage the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the urban environment, especially in the areas of public safety, mobility, energy efficiency and civil defense. This is the main objective of the CPQD IoT pilot project for smart cities, which was approved by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) at the end of 2019. The BNDES contribution to the project is R$ 2.98 millions.
CPQD's proposal is to implement four innovative use cases of the Internet of Things, in a real environment of great national relevance - the city of Campinas, in the interior of São Paulo, which has more than 1.1 million inhabitants, Campinas and ranks first among the smartest and most connected cities in the country, according to the Ranking Connected Smart Cities 2019.
To meet the complexity of the project, the two pilots included in the plan approved by BNDES will be conducted by CPQD together with an ecosystem formed by more than 10 partners - among users (secretaries and public companies, for example), startups, service companies up to global technology giants, operating in the various links of the IoT chain. The duration of these two pilots is 24 months.
It is a large project, divided into different work fronts and technologies. The use cases integrate the four layers of IoT (devices, connectivity, operation support and security) and are interoperable, using the open source platform dojot, developed by CPQD.
Pilots in progress
According to Maurício Casotti, manager of Business Development in Smart Cities at CPQD, the pilots are in the first phase, which involves the signing of cooperation terms with the main partners and team mobilization. “The pilots are based on three very important pillars. The first concerns the integration of the various layers of Internet of Things technology with the processes and people that operate the city – the "Integration of Things". The second focuses on assessing the impact that these technologies can have on the city. And the third, as important as the others, is the dissemination of knowledge and learning so that other cities can also benefit from this experience and adopt the solutions developed in an increasingly effective way”, he explains.
CPQD has already been working on R&D&I projects (research, development and innovation) that have resulted in technologies for smart cities that, now, with the BNDES pilots, will have the opportunity to go through a maturing process, from their implementation in the pilots.
On the part of the government, the Municipality of Campinas, CIMCAMP (Integrated Monitoring Center of Campinas), Civil Defense and IMA (Informatics of Associated Municipalities) were mobilized. The main partner companies and/or startups in the pilots coordinated by CPQD are: Huawei, will participate in the facial recognition use case with alerts to the Municipal Guard; Qualcomm and Pumatronix, which are involved in a project to use computer vision embedded in cameras to read license plates with alerts to the Municipal Guard; CPFL, Exati and Taggen, which will participate in the public lighting telemanagement project with added value services; and Pluvi.On, will work on the project to use microclimate measurement with alerts for civil defense.
“This is a complex project, which includes several IoT applications aimed at improving citizens' lives in smart cities”, says CPQD president Sebastião Sahão Júnior. He recalls that, according to the study Internet of Things: An action plan for Brazil, carried out for BNDES and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (by the consortium formed by McKinsey, CPQD and Pereira Neto/Macedo Advogados ), cities present challenges for both public managers and the private sector, in several areas. “With the proper use of IoT technologies, it is possible to overcome these challenges and contribute to greater management efficiency and the improvement of the quality of services provided to the population of cities”, he adds.
first pilot
The first pilot consists of three use cases, which focus on the challenges of expanding the surveillance and monitoring capacity of city areas to mitigate risk situations to citizen safety. One of these applications involves the use of video surveillance, with high definition cameras, aided by computer vision, with the objective of increasing the productivity of public security agents.
Another use case consists of a vehicle and license plate monitoring portal, aiming to improve safety and urban mobility. To this end, the intention is to expand the number of vehicle recognition and identification portals equipped with smart cameras connected via state-of-the-art wireless IoT technology.
The third use case of this pilot foresees the measurement of microclimate in the urban area, through compact and connected weather stations that will work integrated with river level sensors at strategic points in the city. This will make it possible to provide relevant data, at the appropriate time, for the Civil Defense to issue alerts that may mitigate the impact caused by environmental disasters.
second pilot
The second pilot of the project involves the use case of a telemanagement platform for public lighting, to be implemented in a downtown area. “The objective is to improve the provision of public lighting services, especially with regard to pricing based on real energy consumption, in addition to enabling new business models for services that add value to the public lighting network, such as the microlocation of assets and the connectivity of compact weather stations”, concludes Maurício Casotti.
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