In October, the Department of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities within the regional Council of Andalucía, Telefónica and APBA announced the winner of Fiware Zone IoT Challenge 2020 in a ceremony held in Málaga within the framework of GreenCities 11th Urban Intelligence and Sustainability Forum. The solution suggested by the technological company Hop Ubiquitous SL (HOPU) for APBA’s challenge Advanced platform for environmental sustainability management in the Port of Algeciras, was the best one according to the Jury, and its development as a pilot project will be financed by Telefónica and the regional Council of Andalucía.
Said start-up proposes the development of an AI based platform that will integrate and standardise the existing data coming from platforms such as SAMPA or SafePort, the Copernicus programme, and the air quality measuring stations recently installed by APBA. A hundred high-quality sensors will also be implemented in order to measure various environmental factors, e.g. air and water quality, and odour and noise monitoring, the latter by means of soundlevel metres. All these new devices will be placed everywhere within the port facilities, and the data they provide will be centralised in said platform which will display them in real time. This way, data compilation and analysis will simplify future predictions and decisions.
HOPU’s proposed solution was chosen among 9 short-listed ones submitted by companies such as Hiades, IoT Algeciras, ProDevelop, Purple Blob, SeaPort Solutions, Secmotic, Softcrits and Telprosur. APBA’s challenge was selected among the 8 projects submitted for the public call for innovating technology solutions for real-time, environment-related data collection in ports, as an initiative of the regional Council of Andalucía and Telefónica.
Technology companies participating in FIWARE Zone proposed a wide range of solutions whose purpose was the analysis of data in pursuit of informed environment-related decision-making in the Port of Algeciras. FIWARE Zone is a joint initiative of the regional Council of Andalucía and Telefónica, whose objective is to support and promote business digital transfor-mation through technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data and AI, by means of the FIWARE software platform as a linking thread. This platform is open, shared and supported by the EU.
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