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CityLab R&D infrastructure

The real-life CityLab R&D environment enables the city, researchers and companies to evaluate their technology in a realistic environment, at the scale of a major city.

The CityLab testbed in Antwerp is currently deploying more than 100 multi-technology gateways and multiple LORA base stations offering flexible wireless connectivity (DASH-7, ZigBee, WiFi at 2.4GHz and 5GHz, Bluetooth Low Energy, custom sub-GHz protocols, …) as well as virtual edge-cloud resources spread across the centre of Antwerp. Together with a network prototyping client board (Octa-connect) and a state-of-the-art data processing software stack in the cloud designed with in-house software components, generic APIs and a sandboxing environment (planned), the CityLab research infrastructure is a large scale open testbed for SOTA data and network research on IoT and Smart City services. The iLab.t team supports the technical R&D infrastructure at the network and at the data layer of the CityLab environment and dynamically adapts this infrastructure to new test cases if needed.

 More information: https://www.imec-int.com/en/cityofthings

People

CityLab network research

  • Bart Braem
  • Johan Bergs
  • Daniel van den Akker
  • Steven Latré

CityLab data research

  • Philip Leroux
  • Jelle Nelis
  • Anna Lin
  • Wannes Kerckhove
  • Thomas Dupont
  • Gregory Van Seghbroeck
  • Merlijn Sebrechts
  • Bruno Volckaert
  • Filip De Turck

Projects

  • Fed4FIRE: Federation for Future Internet experimentation
  • SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond

Key publications

  • City of things: An integrated and multi-technology testbed for IoT smart city experiments S Latre, P Leroux, T Coenen, B Braem… - … (ISC2), 2016 IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
  • Designing a smart city playground: Real-time air quality measurements and visualization in the City of Things testbed B Braem, S Latre, P Leroux… - … (ISC2), 2016 IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
  • City of Things: A Multidisciplinary Smart Cities Testbed for IoT, Big Data and Living Labs Innovation B Braem, S Latré, P Leroux, P Demeester… - Network Design and Optimization for Smart Cities, 2017 - World Scientific

Pictures

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The pictures show the indoor unit for secure tunnelling of data and remote management, and the outdoor (weatherproof, robust) gateway consisting of an antenna unit and an active unit.