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Libelium Releases Smart Cities Sensor Platform for Precise Urban MonitoringLibelium has released a new Smart Cities sensing platform, based on Waspmote Plug and Sense! sensor nodes, that integrates hardware and software design improvements developed in response to feedback from scores of Smart Cities projects over the last four years. Waspmote Plug & Sense! integrates up to six sensors per node, maximizing network infrastructure and reducing installation costs. (Photo: Business Wire) Increased urbanization is a market driver for the rapid growth of the global Smart Cities market, forecast by Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) to reach $1.56 trillion by 2020. Cities aim to give citizens a quality lifestyle in terms of economic growth, well being, and sustainability. Libelium's modular sensor solution enables cities to establish a platform to build future smart city applications and services, such as traffic management, environmental sensors, smart parking, water quality and conservation, noise pollution, and urban resilience. Designed to meet sophisticated demands of municipalities, Libelium's new Smart Cities sensing solution, based on Waspmote Plug & Sense!, reduces installation, integration, and maintenance costs, and offers flexibility and scalability for Smart City applications. The platform includes a new array of sensors for advanced Smart Cities deployments, is compliant with international standards for sensor accuracy and offers out of the box integration with existing Cloud solutions. "City managers recognize they are in transition from digital cities to Smart Cities," said Alicia Asin, Libelium co-founder and CEO. "Municipalities are far more educated now in terms of technology and infrastructure investment, and they prefer accurate readings over more nodes. They need information they can use across departments to amortize expensive equipment purchases like sonometers." How it works: http://www.libelium.com/new-smart-cities-platform-air-quality-dust-sound-light-precision-sensors With Libelium Waspmote and Plug & Sense! sensors, municipalities can combine solutions from a variety of technology partners, including Cloud providers, data management solutions, network operators, or application developers. New Smart Cities Precision Platform
About Libelium Libelium designs and manufactures hardware and APIs for wireless sensor networks so that system integrators, engineering, and consultancy companies can deliver reliable Internet of Things (IoT), M2M and Smart Cities solutions with minimum time to market. Waspmote-Libelium's open wireless sensor platform-is modular, easy to deploy and ready to integrate with third-party Cloud systems such as Axeda, Esri, Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure, Sentilo, Telefonica, ThingWorx, or MQTT. Over 2,000 developers from 75 countries in companies ranging from startups to universities to large international corporations have adopted Libelium's technology for projects in North America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Commercial and industrial IoT deployments based on Waspmote include applications as varied as parking, traffic congestion, environmental monitoring, water quality, urban resilience, asset tracking, and precision agriculture. Libelium's DIY open source hardware division, Cooking Hacks, is dedicated to making electronics affordable, easy to learn and fun. Cooking Hacks serves a worldwide community of developers, designers, inventors and makers who love to create electronics with sensors, robotics, Arduino and Raspberry Pi. In 2014, Gartner (News - Alert) Inc. named Libelium a Cool Vendor in embedded software and systems. Established in 2006, Libelium is privately held and has headquarters in Zaragoza, Spain. www.libelium.com
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