On the energy savings achieved through an internet of things enabled smart city trial

摘要: Improving efficiency of city services and facilitating a more sustainable development cities are the main drivers smart concept. This paper describes field trial that instantiates novel architecture exploiting major concepts from Future Internet (FI) paradigm. The has been executed in one parks Santander providing an autonomous public street lighting adaptation service. takes advantage both critical communications infrastructures already place owned by utility as well Things infrastructure belonging to municipality accelerate efficient provision existing new services. contribution presented is, indeed, assessment energy savings achieved during trials study key performance indicators analyzed trial. highlights how FI technologies create necessary glue logic allows integration current vertical isolated into holistic solution, which enables huge forward leap for sustainability our cities. Finally, is showcase on added-value can be seamlessly created top proposed architecture.