Agriculture has historically been a key factor in the development of human society. During the last centuries, agriculture activities have been benefited from automation and technological advances. The Internet of Things, where Libelium’s technology plays a critical role, is also taking part of this by providing the farmers new analysis and forecast tools that helps them to improve their production.

The adoption of new technologies such as Libelium’s Sensor Network in the agricultural sector plays a central role in order to achieve challenges like limited arable land, climate change, scarcity of water or availability of energy among others.

EVJA is an Italian start-up operating in the IoT and Smart Agriculture market that has developed a smart agriculture project in Salerno, South of Italy, to monitor “baby leaves” fourth-generation vegetables production with Libelium’s sensor platform.

Location of Salerno (Italy)

Ready-to-eat salad mixes have experienced a tremendous increase in popularity and sales over the last years. A study in HortScience reports that supermarket sales of the produce increased from $197 million in 1993 to $2.7 billion in 2008 in the United States. There are many baby leaf vegetables which are orignated in Asia and have become very popular in salad mix, dressing and garnishing in gourmet cuisines. The tricky thing about growing salad greens is that they are cool-weather crops.

To keep under control all factors influencing the cultivations EVJA has created OPI™, a hardware and software bundle that helps farmers make the best decisions, thanks to the scalable proprietary IoT platform. It is equipped with proprietary predictive algorithms and connected to their customized wireless sensor networks. OPI™ allows for a better yield and a healthier production and it can be optimized to work with every cultivation.

The team of EVJA is composed of a wide variety of specialists with high experience in several fields. Among them, agronomists and pathologists, with more than thirty years of experience in the field, carry out in-house research, and developing and calibration of predictive algorithm.

Installation of the EVJA OPI™ system

EVJA develops in-house software and firmware: scalable infrastructure for multipurpose data management, processing and presentation, and internal firmware design and development for proprietary and third-party devices.

It is widely known that cultivations are influenced by numerous external factors. Farmers need to physically go on the fields in order to continuously check and control their fields. Even so, they lack the tools to forecast adverse weather conditions and plant diseases.

This result in an inefficient use of fertilizers and pesticides, along with inefficient irrigation schedules. Knowing when exactly to use pesticides and fertilizers would mean to save money, but also to lower the chemical residues. This is critical to obtain a healthier produce and comply to the distributors guidelines.

EVJA trusted Libelium’s technology to develop a smart system to monitor baby leaves production in Italy. The company has installed several Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform in different locations at the site: Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture to monitor environmental parameters such as temperature, relative humidity and air pressure, luminosity (luxes accuracy) and leaf wetness.

Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture in greenhouse installation

Libelium Sensor Network has been used by EVJA to create the product OPI™ (Observe Prevent Improve), the proprietary Decision Support System (DSS) entirely developed in-house. The main goals of this projects are:

• Remotely observe and obtain real-time data from the fields.
• Prevent plant diseases thanks to the algorithms and predictive models.
• Improve healthiness and quality of the production.
• Lower the use of fertilizers and chemicals in agricultural yields.

Additionally, a big saving in time and costs is obtained thanks to Libelium Sensor Network. Experts say that “a 4th range company spends more than 4,000€ in pesticides per hectare per year. This product can lower this costs by 10% so the product basically pays for itself in one year”.

There is a significant reduction in time-to-market, increasing the focus on agriculture market segmentation, stimulating the creation of a highly verticalized product that completely meets the needs of the customers.

The farmer can also associate crop yields with the greenhouses’ climate during a period so that OPI can provide the crop yield forecast, reducing the usage of pesticides and water for irrigation.

Diagram of EVJA OPI™ installation

EVJA is using 4G and LoRaWAN communications to connect the sensors to the cloud. All information gathered by this sensors is collected, processed and displayed in a custom proprietary software platform that is hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud.

• For 4G network version: HTTPs/REST protocols directly from devices to cloud.
• For LoRaWAN network version: LoRaWAN protocols from devices to gateway and HTTPs/REST protocols from gateway to cloud.

EVJA OPI™ Dashboard

EVJA selected Libelium Sensor Platform motivated by the following criteria:

• High modularity of the products
• Fully firmware customization
• Product Certification for Worldwide
• Best money for value
• Low lead time
• Full warranty for every component
• Long-established Product
• Long life cycle of products
• Efficient technical support
• Direct commercial contact

“Our users are farmers and they are used to deal with extreme conditions of agricultural environments; hence they appreciate the high-resistant case of Waspmote Plug & Sense!” pointed out Antonio Affinito – CTO at EVJA.

“Working with Libelium’s devices means you have endless opportunities in every market segments that are changing with new tendency of the Internet of Things”, adds Antonio.

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More info:

• For technical details on Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture: Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Technical Guide
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.

References:

• EVJA: evja.eu
• The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO): fao.org
• Royal Horticultural Society: rhs.org.uk

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Arrow Electronics, Inc., Libelium partner and distributor, has participated in the Microsoft IoT in Action event held in Seoul (Korea) on the 30^th January 2018.

IoT and sensor technologies are driving the development of sustainable, environmentally friendly smarter cities and digital transformation around the world. South Korea recently ranked top for its readiness for sustained IoT adoption among countries in Asia Pacific region.

Arrow has shown in this event a local proof-of-concept urban-agricultural IoT solution working with Libelium’s technology Waspmote designed for managing greenhouse environment and generating data analytics for optimal operation. Information gathered is sent to Arrow Connect, a cloud-based platform running on Microsoft Azure, developed by Arrow. Libelium’s sensor platform along with Arrow software tools enable the seamless and secure flow of data on any device or edge over any protocol to any cloud, as well as securely provision and manage all IoT devices.

Arrow representatives showcase Libelium solutions at IoT in Action at Seoul

“Developing the kind of smart and connected devices needed to deliver the expected IoT outcomes and benefits draws on a broad spectrum of technologies and expertise. With our comprehensive ‘sensor-to-sunset IoT offerings and technology portfolio from sensors, edge computing, connectivity, gateways to cloud platforms, data analytics, and security, we can reduce the engineering complexity and remove technology challenges that public and private sectors face while conceptualizing, deploying, and managing IoT devices or solutions,” said Aiden Mitchell, vice president of IoT global solutions at Arrow.

“Libelium’s wireless and sensor technology complements Arrow’s comprehensive technology portfolio for IoT. Together we can offer pre-integrated IoT solutions that require minimal design effort before deployment“, said Carlos Herrando, Libelium Sales Area Manager – Smart Cities, Industry, eHealth for Asia, Australia, and Eastern Europe. “We look forward to exhibiting alongside Arrow at Microsoft’s IoT in Action.”

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More than 84% of world trade is mobilized by maritime transport. The integration of land transport with ports has become essential and has had an impact in the complexity of logistics connections. The dynamic nature and importance of maritime transport have repercussions on the environment in the form of noise and air pollution or traffic congestion, among others. Despite the fact that CO2 emissions of container vessels are, comparatively, much lower than air freight emissions, a very large 18,000 TEU container vessel emits 3 grams of CO₂ per tonne/kilometer. Recent studies also suggest that maritime transport contributes to 3.5 – 4% of the pollution with sulfur, a highly carcinogenic agent.

Location of Gdansk, Poland

With more than 37 million tons of trans-shipments, the Port of Gdansk (Poland) is one of the largest seaports in the Baltic Sea. The Polish Government is aware of the significance of sea transport in world transactions, currently and in the near future. “The constant growth of maritime trade and the privileged situation of Poland in the Baltic region forces the country to invest in the development of its port infrastructures”, as pointed out by Deputy Minister of Maritime Economy, Grzegorz Witkowski.

Port of Gdansk. Picture property of ZMPG SA

Feature Forest is a Polish start-up, specialized in developing software solutions for the IoT, taking advantage of data science methods. The company, together with 15 other start-ups, has successfully accomplished the so-called Space3ac Acceleration Program, a project which seeks the minimization of port activity impact as well as solving the problems of transportation industry players in the surrounding areas of the Gdansk Port.

The participants of Space3ac were chosen from around 130 teams which deliver solutions for the intermodal transportation sector. During the program, Feature Forest had the opportunity to implement the “fPerception” project in the Port of Gdansk, based on Libelium technology.

The fPerception system allows the immediate detection of hazardous chemical compounds polluting the air. Using an app, customers of Feature Forest can monitor the state of air pollution at a given location, in real time. The fPerception app compares the level of pollution with the norms, and alerts if they are exceeded. It also allows the prediction of the spreading of monitored chemical compounds. The solution is fully scalable and flexible, it meets the requirements of several industries, always taking into consideration their specifications.

Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO installed in the Nowy Port area at Gdansk

The initial requirements of the project establish the necessity of an easy-to-deploy, off-the-shelf solution with calibrated sensors and production site in the European Union. Feature Forest chose Libelium because they “were aiming for a short lead and deployment time, from a reliable supplier”.

This project aims to localize the sources of air pollutants in the area of the port, such as the berthing of vessels, the heat and power plants, the cargo handling activities, the surrounding industry or the raising road and railway transport. The nodes are located nearby potential sources of pollution, then information about gas concentration is correlated with wind direction and speed.

Additionally, controlling gas levels in the area helps to verify the intensity of the local industry in terms of pollution concentration, a primary study for models of pollution emission derived from port operations plans and industry in the area: the power and heat plant of Wybrzeże, the Gdansk Refinery, the shipyards and other factories.

Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO nodes measure gases concentration and weather conditions at Gdansk Port

The fPerception system integrates seven Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO sensor nodes to measure the following parameters:

• Air temperature
• Relative humidity
• Air pressure
• Ammonia (NH₃)
• Hydrogen sulfide (H₂S)
• Phosphine (PH₃)
• Wind speed
• Wind direction
• Rain fall

The Waspmote Plug & Sense! sensor nodes gather information from the environment and send it via 4G wireless communication protocol to the Meshlium Gateway 4G 802.15.4 AP 868 EU. Once the information is received, Meshlium has been set to send the data in MQTT, a publish/subscribe, extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol. The MQTT broker and the app are deployed on proprietary hardware and software, where the information is processed and offered in a dashboard.

fPerception Feature Forest Dashboard

This project’s revenue is clearly divided into three different benefits:

• Time savings thanks to the faster and easier access to reliable information on actual state of air pollution.
• Increased safety of workers in working site area thanks to the implementation of early pollution alert system.
• Cost savings thanks to the compliance with air pollution regulations.

Diagram of fPerception Feature Forest project

Feature Forest praise Waspmote Plug & Sense! as a verified, calibrated and easy-to-deploy measurement solution with a wide variety of sensors and communication protocols available, all made and designed by a European company with more than 10 years experience in the Internet of Things. “Libelium solutions almost perfectly fit into our needs” states Piotr Woźniak, CEO of Feature Forest.

“We appreciate the effort of Libelium to deliver the equipment in a short time, this was crucial for the success of the project. It was a pleasure to cooperate with engaged and competent professionals from Libelium” adds Woźniak. “The quality of the equipment met our expectations. This positive experience has motivated us to use Libelium hardware as a base for upcoming solutions to offer to our customers”.

Magdalena Korpalska, Chief Environmental Specialist in Port of Gdansk adds: “Pollution emissions from the port activities can negatively impact the local environment and human health. Port of Gdansk Authority S.A. believes that constant monitoring and evaluation of the pollution emissions from the shipping operations are important aspects that must be studied. The fPerception system tool proposed by the Feature Forest is a screening web-based, easy-to-use interface tool with an intended purpose of monitoring the concentration patterns of three compounds: ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and phosphine. The tool gives us a really important knowledge about relative contributions of air emissions from various sources caused by the mobile source emissions related to commercial port activities. Port of Gdansk S.A. highly supports all the initiatives that concern environmental protection and underlines that the so far cooperation with companies like Feature Forest is a very interesting and promising experience.”

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More info:

• For technical details on Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO: Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO Technical Guide.
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.

References:

• Feature Forest: featureforest.pl
• Port of Gdansk: portgdansk.pl
• NABU (Naturschutzbund Deutschland): nabu.de
• Natura Medioambiental: natura-medioambiental.com
• Revista del Sector Marítimo: sectormaritimo.es




• Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors: libelium.com
• New Sound Level Sensor to control Noise Pollution: libelium.com
• New Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities: libelium.com
• Libelium Improves Accuracy of Smart Parking Sensors up to 99% and Adds Australia, Asia PAC and LATAM Coverage: libelium.com
• Connecting Sensors to the Cloud – Meshlium IoT Gateway: libelium.com

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Ozone is one of the major pollutants in Europe, excessive exposure to ground-level ozone is estimated to cause about 20,000 premature deaths per year in Europe, according to the European Environment Agency.

European Union project CAPTOR measures tropospheric ozone in areas where levels usually exceed regular values. Libelium sensors are used to control air quality in rural areas and real-time information of the Captor nodes can be consulted using the captorAIR app.

Location of Spain, Italy and Austria

The UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) is leading the Collective Awareness Platform for Tropospheric Ozone Pollution (CAPTOR), a platform which uses Libelium’s IoT technology to monitor tropospheric ozone as well as other secondary pollutants (NO_x and VOC).

Ozone is a greenhouse gas, often considered the “forgotten pollutant” because its effects are felt far from the areas that cause it. But ground level ozone is primarily an air pollutant, which is of high concern in Europe.

Diagram of CAPTOR project

The polluters (the urban population) do not suffer the degradation of the air quality caused by their gas emissions, whereas the rural population (which has a limited ability to control the emissions) breathes degraded air. Due to this decoupling between the sources and the effects of tropospheric ozone, it usually receives less attention than other pollutants such as particles of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x).

A network of sensors were installed to measured ozone in three affected areas:

• Barcelonès-Vallès Oriental-Osona area in Spain
• La Plana Padana, in the Po Valley (Italy)
• Burgenland, Styria and Lower Austria (Austria)

CAPTOR web application

Libelium’s wireless sensor platform Waspmote is extraordinarily flexible and has been designed to work in many different IoT smart cities projects: measuring polluting gases levels, controlling particle pollution, light intensity levels or even noise pollution from road traffic, industry and construction.

The devices, which has been inspired by Libelium’s Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities PRO line, have been managed and maintained jointly by the Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies (IDAEA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the UPC.

CAPTOR sensor nodes measure ozone and other pollutants

Three ozone measurement campaigns are planned for the summer period (2016-2018), when tropospheric ozone reaches the highest concentrations. In the first year, 2016, the campaign was only carried out in Spain, in order to test the system and the tools for publishing the data. In 2017 and 2018 the campaign was carried out in private houses of volunteers from three countries: Austria, Italy and Spain.

The CAPTOR team installs nodes in volunteers’ homes

In the CAPTOR project, citizens and scientists work closely together to monitor and address the problem of ozone pollution in Europe. In fact, the goal is to promote grassroots collaboration between local communities, citizens, NGOs and scientists in order to find solutions to the problem of air pollution and to reinforce the citizens’ awareness of their right to clean air.

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More info:

• For technical details on Smart Environment PRO/Gases PRO Board Guide: Gases PRO v30 Board Guide.
• For technical details on Smart Cities PRO sensors: Smart Cities PRO Board Guide.

References:

• Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities: libelium.com
• Particle Matter – Dust Sensor (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10). Air Quality in Smart Cities: libelium.com
• Libelium Releases Smart Cities Sensor Platform for Precise Urban Monitoring: libelium.com
• CAPTOR Project: captor-project.eu
• CAPTORair App: captorair.org
• European Environment Agency: eea.europa.eu
• Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies/Instituto de Diagnóstico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA): idaea.csic.es
• Spanish National Research Council/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC): csic.es
• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – UPC: upc.edu
• “Un proyecto europeo pone sensores de ozono en hogares de voluntarios” – CSIC: dicat.csic.es
• “A European project led by the UPC involves citizens in the control of air quality” – UPC: upc.edu

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Libelium participates in IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona with The IoT Marketplace as the guest star of the booth. This online store actually offers more than 100 kits ready to be deployed, including hardware devices and software visualization, for different applications that improve the sustainability and the competitiveness. The most demanded solutions exhibited revolves around monitoring different agriculture crops, water quality management, fish farms supervision, air quality control, applications for smart buildings and factories, fire and flood prevention, smart parking, among others.

The IoT Marketplace allows customers to try solutions and visualize how to scale them in a cost-effective way. “While the hype of the IoT and the lack of integrated solutions discourages the investments and the fast adoption, The IoT Marketplace helps to prevent customers from getting lost while designing their IoT projects, choosing the right hardware and the cloud application in a simple process,” states Alicia Asín, Libelium’s CEO. In addition, The IoT Marketplace is the seed for the consolidation of a unified portfolio of solutions for the IoT market in which all members of the value chain can participate: from sensor manufacturers, through wireless communication protocols and gateways to cloud software service platforms.

The IoT Solutions World Congress, to be held in Barcelona between the 16^th and the 18^th October 2018, is a unique event dedicated exclusively to join IoT providers with different productive sectors to increase their productivity via this disruptive technology.

Smart solutions to join physical and digital world

The Libelium stand stages the union of the physical and the digital world that the IoT technology currently allows to connect. With this aim, Libelium showcases 6 common urban spaces to set the 6 most outstanding technological solutions for smart water management, for precision agriculture, for measuring air pollution and noise levels in cities, for parking management, for measuring vehicles and consumer patterns in commercial areas and for e-health control.

At Libelum’s stand, the attendees will have the opportunity to test some of Libelium’s most outstanding solutions in action hand in hand with the software solutions of our partners:

• Smart Water. Aridea will show their solution based on their work managing the belugas water quality with a buoy for offshore seawater.
• Smart Agriculture. Elmitel will be exhibiting one of the most demanded solution for vineyards monitoring.
• Smart Cities. Smart Data System, with the kits for smart villages, will demonstrate the latest applications for air quality index control and for gardens irrigation.
• Smart Parking. The visitors will check, thanks to Yazamtec, the greatest benefits of this solution to monitor parking spots for different uses: emergencies, disabled areas, shopping malls, taxis stations, electric vehicles charging points…
• Meshlium Scanner. The solution to scan devices implanted in malls, cities and buildings it will also have its space with Thingfarm.
• MySignals. eHealth is the new revolution and Libelium has its own proposal available to test the main health body parameters of our visitors.

The location of the booth is on Gran Via, Hall 2, Level 0, Street B, Stand 219

Demo of marine habitat conservation

Libelium has been selected by IoT Solutions’ Jury to be present at the Testbeds area. This space offers experimentation platforms deployed and tested in an environment that resembles real-world conditions.

Libelium showcases its Smart Water Testbed titled “Protecting and conserving the beluga whale habitat in Alaska”, a project developed in partnership with Aridea Solutions.

This testbed shows a project developed to monitor air and water quality after a gas leak at the Cook Inlet in Alaska, home of the endangered Beluga Whale. Aridea Solutions designed a buoy equipped with Libelium’s wireless sensor platform to monitor pollution levels in air and water near the leak affecting the Beluga whales and other aquatic mammals. Conservation of marine habitat and protected species with IoT technology is helping to reduce pole warming and consequent climate change.

Conference about interoperability and ecosystem cooperation based on a fishfarm project in Iran

Libelium presents the session “Interoperability and ecosystem cooperation: IoT water quality control in fish farms in Iran”.

Place: Room 6. Date: 17/10/2018. Time: 17:20 – 18:05

ASM, Libelium distributor in Iran developed a Smart Water sensor network to measure the water quality parameters of the fish farms. Having information about water quality parameters in fish breeding ponds offers the farmers the possibility to manage their installations in an improved and more effective way, accelerating their inner processes.

Libelium and ASM, in collaboration with Loriot and Daliworks, have constructed the best example of an interoperability project as a result of its ecosystem based relationship: a system where all he members interact among them and depends one of each other. On the project developed in Iran to monitor water quality in fish farms, Libelium is providing the first part of the value of chain, the hardware; Daliworks is providing the clouding; Loriot offers the network server for handling LoRaWAN connectivity; and ASM is providing the analytics, the local support ant the commercialization from the A to Z solution. This is a winning strategy based on the construction of a strong ecosystem.

The IoT Marketplace, finalist of IoT Solutions Awards

The IoT Marketplace competes with Huawei and Serimag as finalist of The IoT Solutions Awards in the Innovative Technology Category. The IoT Marketplace has been selected for being a one-stop click-and-buy online store that offers fully integrated solutions, from hardware sensors to cloud applications, with the aim to speed up IoT adoption allowing the use in real projects with the minimum time to market.

If you want to arrange a meeting there contact our Libelium Sales Department.

More information:

• Protecting and conserving the beluga whale habitat in Alaska with Libelium’s flexible sensor platform: libelium.com
• Precision Agriculture: Predicting Vineyard Conditions, Preventing Disease: libelium.com
• Controlling fish farms water quality with smart sensors in Iran: libelium.com
• Smart Parking Sensor Node Solution: libelium.com
• Meshlium Scanner: Smartphone Detection: libelium.com
• MySignals eHealth Development Platform: my-signals.com

Partners’ kits at The IoT Marketplace:

• Aridea Kits: the-iot-marketplace.com
• Elmitel Kits: the-iot-marketplace.com
• SmartDataSystem Kits: the-iot-marketplace.com
• Yazamtec Kits: the-iot-marketplace.com
• Thingfarm Kits: the-iot-marketplace.com

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Libelium verifies the accuracy of the weather stations integrated in its IoT platform with the same results as those registered by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

The use of weather stations in IoT projects is commonly widespread in solution development related to precision agriculture. They are also a feature in the control of adverse atmospheric phenomena and study of pollution towards the prevention of climate change.

In many countries there are Official Meteorological Agencies that provide climate services such as AEMET, the Spanish agency dedicated to weather forecasting, climate monitoring, seasonal forecasting and climate projections for the 21^st century.

To this end, AEMET has reference measurement stations strategically located to record parameters at different geographical points. These stations are the most technically advanced and offer the highest accuracy in the market.

Location of Zaragoza, Spain

Libelium has developed a project to test the accuracy of weather stations that includes its IoT platform in comparison with the professional station of AEMET. In order to do this, Libelium’s engineering team installed two Plug & Sense! nodes in the Sustainable Urbanism Center of Zaragoza (Spain) requesting permission from AEMET to carry out the measurements in the same location and under the same conditions as its reference station.

Installation of the Waspmote Plug & Sense! nodes

“Accuracy and quality of technology are two major goals at Libelium. The company is evolving by offering increasingly professional IoT solutions to the market in response to customers’ increasing demand for precision,” says David Gascón, CTO and co-founder of Libelium.

In association, just a few months ago, Libelium launched the new IoT solution for precision agriculture, named Smart Agriculture Xtreme. This Plug&Sense model incorporates improved probes and new weather stations from the manufacturer Gill Instruments.

The aim of the project is to establish a comparison of parameters to verify the integration of the new line of weather stations that includes the Smart Agriculture Xtreme solution. Two Smart Agriculture Plug & Sense! nodes were installed for this purpose at ten meters above the ground, connected to two different stations: WS-3000 and GMX-240. Both available in the Libelium sensors catalog.

AEMET gave Libelium access to the data recorded in the reference station in order to synchronize Meshlium with the official agency’s public data and compare them with those of Libelium’s nodes.

Diagram of the installation

After the first months of data recording and after some storms in the city of Zaragoza, Libelium’s engineering team detected that the location of the pluviometer at 10 meters high affected the measurement results. For this reason, they decided to add another model of station, the GMX-100 that only measures rain, at 1.5 meters from the ground, the same height at which the AEMET pluviometer was located.

Libelium’s technology installed in Palma de Mallorca harbor reveals that ferries cause more air pollution rather than cruises

The environmental report of ESPO (The European Sea Ports Organisation) for 2018 shows that air quality remains the main priority of European ports. Aware of this, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands has been working hard since 2016 to also know the level of air quality, capacity, alignment with the Environmental Policy of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands.

In 2017, the Balearic Harbors Authority (APB in Spanish), Mallorcawifi.com, in collaboration with the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB in Spanish), implemented an IoT project based on Libelium sensor platform to control the environmental impact of the vessels in the Port of Mallorca. Authorities were worried about the high level of cruises, ferries, and boats, in order to prevent their negative effects on life conditions in the surrounding areas in such a touristic destination.

Map of Mallorca

The installation of a sensor network focused to monitor the air quality, noise and weather parameters. Everything was aimed at making decisions on the harbor’s environmental behavior and improving the conditions so that everybody could enjoy a healthier city.

Almost two years data gathering after the installation of the nodes, the Balearic Harbors Authority has reached the first conclusions from the data captured by the network of nodes. In July 2018, it was brought to light by researchers at the UIB that cruises were not the first cause of pollution in the area, but passengers’ and commercial ferries.

“We wanted to identify the quality of the air in the harbor in a more concrete and precise way due to the social sensitivity of this matter,” highlights Jorge Martín, Quality Manager of the Balearic Harbors Authority.

Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platforms installed in Mallorca

The measuring stations control levels of carbon monoxide (CO), Particle Matter (PM), ozone (O₃), carbon dioxide (CO₂), sulfur dioxide and noise every ten minutes. The authorities confirm that higher levels are reached in the morning, between 6:00 and 11:00 AM.

Web dashboard of the project

After the results of the study were published, the authorities of the port showed its interest to implement new policies in order to diminish the pollution and its negative impacts. In the future, the port will offer free power to vessels, which will be asked to switch off their motors while berthing to diminish emissions.

Location of the Balearic ports where the project will be replicated

This project is planned to be replicated in 2019 in the rest of ports of the archipelago (Alcudia, Ibiza, Mahón and La Savina).

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More info:

• For technical details on Smart Environment PRO/Gases PRO Board Guide: Gases PRO v30 Board Guide.
• For technical details on Smart Cities PRO sensors: Smart Cities PRO Board Guide.
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.




• Libelium’s IoT sensors platform helps to control environmental impact on Palma de Mallorca’s harbor to become a smart tourist destination
• Reducing Logistics’ environmental impact by air quality monitoring in the Baltic Sea Port of Gdansk, Poland
• Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors.
• New Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities.
• New Particle Matter – Dust Sensor (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10).

References:

• Mallorcawifi.com: mallorcawifi.com
• Balearic Ports Authority: portsdebalears.com
• University of the Balearic Islands: uib.es

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Air pollution in Greece has been a serious environmental problem in the last decades. Rapid and disorganized urbanization of cities, lack of infrastructure and an increasing motor vehicle fleet in urban regions were the main causes of air quality deterioration in the country.

Location of Crete (Greece)

With more than 1,400 islands, maritime and air transports are common in Greece. Tests carried out in Santorini demonstrated that concentrations of ultra-fine particles were up to 100 times higher near the ports. But in recent years, the situation has been improved thanks to better fuels and replacement of polluting old technology.

The evaluation of air quality and pollution has been traditionally conducted by ground based monitoring. Complexity of the terrain and physical barriers usually complicate data collection, augmenting costs and decreasing efficiency and performance.

At the Industrial, Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory of the Technical University of Crete, Antonios Koutroumpas (BSc Student) and Konstantinos Loukakis (MSc Student), with the assistance of Spiros Papaefthimiou (Associate Professor), developed a Thesis in Production Systems with the title: “Use of UAV (Unnamed Aerial Vehicles) for 3D visualization of air pollutants in urban areas,” in which a small drone equipped with Libelium’s wireless sensor platform Waspmote was introduced for in-situ data acquisition.

Drone + Calibrated gases wireless sensor platform

The study was carried out on the campus of the Technological University of Crete, in the city of Chania. The main purpose of the thesis was to capture air pollutant emissions and to create a 3D visualization tool of a determined area. The sensors were able to measure:

• air temperature,
• atmospheric pressure,
• humidity,
• carbon monoxide (CO),
• carbon dioxide (CO₂),
• sulfur dioxide (SO₂),
• ozone (O₃),
• nitrogen dioxide (NO₂),
• and ammonia (NH₃).

Drones equipped with compact sensors can provide data at nearly any point in a three-dimensional axis. This interesting characteristic favors the reduction of sensor nodes used in every smart cities or smart environment project, diminishing the total cost of the solution. Additionally, permits the user to obtain local data for production monitoring, problem detection and local climate control.

The projects require a wireless sensor network with the following requisites: low cost, portability, capability of data storage and wireless transmission of the data. Another additional requirement was time and location stamping of gas measurements, which was accomplished thanks to Waspmote intrinsic characteristics and GPS module integrated.

Gases heatmap obtained with the sensorized drone

The developer chose Libelium’s wireless sensor platform due to “its ability to integrate many protocols into a single node, which provides capabilities for implementations of multi-WSN architectures where independent communications can exist within a single network”.

Sensors were attached to the UAV thanks to customized boxes printed from a 3D printer, one for the sensor boards and a second one to contain the battery. While the drone flies, the sensors take measurements and send, via GPRS, the information directly to the database, where it is processed.

Diagram of the project

The author of the thesis is optimistic about the future use of UAVs in air quality applications thanks to the capability and flexibility of these platforms. The presented paper developed concepts and innovative techniques for visualizing air pollutants in 2D and 3D form.

The main purposes on this thesis were to create a 3D mesh of the study area and to visualize this data above the geo-referenced 3D model for better understanding of the distribution of the air pollutants. Some of the most important results obtained thanks to this performance was the emission of CO2 from the chimney of the university and from the parking lot.

CO and CO₂ three-dimensional maps

The thesis leaves the door open to the application of this disruptive methodology in areas where high concentration of air pollutants is a concern, such as industrial areas, harbors or airports. The use of more than one UAV could offer simultaneous data at different locations and heights, giving the opportunity to investigate air quality at a bigger scale.

This is not the first time Libelium’s wireless sensor platform is adapted in a similar system. A Smart Water drone monitoring system was recently implemented in Russia to measure pollution in the largest water reservoir in Eurasia, located in the Volga River.

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More info:

• For technical details on Smart Environment PRO/Gases PRO Board Guide: Gases PRO v30 Board Guide.
• For technical details on Smart Cities PRO sensors: Smart Cities PRO Board Guide.
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.
• Drones, Sensors and Blockchain for water quality control in the Volga river to promote trustworthy data and transparency.
• Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors.
• New Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities.

References:

• Technical University of Crete: tuc.gr
• Health of tourists and locals at risk on Greek island due to toxic emissions from cruise ships, say environmentalists: independent.co.uk

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Asthma is one of the most frequent causes of absenteeism in schools. This disease, that affects the respiratory tract, can alter sleep, play and other activities necessary for proper child growth.

In industrialized countries, a progressive rise in asthma has been observed. The condition is prevalent between 3 and 30% of school year children aged 6 and 7 years old.

The total number of children suffering from this chronic disease increased by 75% between 1980 and 1994. And it is going to get worse because of the increment in emissions.

Plug&Sense! Smart Environment PRO in a lantern

Now local authorities are unable to solve this kind of problem efficiently since there are very few static stations monitoring the level of air pollution. So data is rarely measured and arrives with a delay. In this regard, engineers of the Airalab Rus team had the idea to install a modern automatic sensor provided by Libelium in several play areas. This is how the “Smart yard. Safe environment” project began.

This project features a system of sensors that monitor air quality in the yard. Airalab uses blockchain technology for storing information in a decentralized network. In this case, it allows the state and its citizens to obtain trusted data and use it along with the information from stationary posts.

Location of Togliatti (Russia)

On August 2018 our partner Airalab, with the support of Smart Distribution (Libelium’s distributor in Russia), installed a measure network on ten points in the city of Togliatti (Russia), a residential area. As in the previous project water quality control in the Volga river, the Airalab team chose Libelium’s Waspmote Plug&Sense!Smart Environment PRO because of its easy use, the long-life battery and because it does not require expertise. The solution kit was installed with Particle Matter (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10) and Dust Sensor, and with the air quality sensors for detecting SO2 and NO. The data obtained gave the first impression of the current air state in the city with the example of one play area. The data was sent via 4G.

The aim of Airalab is to establish the bases for the implementation of a network of air quality monitoring in areas of special vulnerability (schools, playgrounds, nursing homes, hospitals, etc) that can provide information for local governments to take measures that protect its citizens.

Diagram of the project made by Airalab Rus

In addition, the use of blockchain technology for storing information in a decentralized network not only allows the state and its citizens to trust this data but also permits the entrepreneurs to sell air quality information directly to organizations interested in it. This means that there is no intermediary bypassing bureaucratic procedures, which makes it possible to recoup the cost of installing sensors.

The average daily MPC (maximum permissible concentration) has not been exceeded by any indicator, although there has been a sharp increase in certain periods of time. Based on the measurements, which are taken every 10 minutes day and night, the following recommendation could be made: during the period of the most active use of transport on the city roads, it is better to refrain from long walks and staying outside.

Airalab team installing one of the Plug&Sense! Smart Environment PRO

In reference to the analysis of data from the sensor installed in the yard, Airalab engineers are sure that their research is useful and necessary. Also, there is a plan to go beyond the scope of air condition research only at one point of the city by installing a whole network of sensors. In this regard, the future plans for the project are as follows:

• public opinion research on the subject of possible places for installation of sensors
• appealing to the relevant departments for comments on the results obtained
• continuation of the project not only in terms of installing a larger number of sensors but also combining them into a network capable of conducting online monitoring of the air quality in the city of Togliatti.

“Smart Environment PRO is an excellent platform. You can start with the prototype on Waspmote with Gases PRO in the office and transfer the firmware to a device with a case for outdoor installation. During the day, the battery charge is enough to send measurements via 4G from five sensors once a minute or more. During the night time, the battery is recharged from the lanterns, where the sensor is installed. It is compact and flexibly programmable with a high frequency of measurement acquisition. Moreover, it has more reliable measurements (due to factory calibration), than alternative Arduino-compatible solutions, and also it provides an opportunity to get the system ready for operation fast”, said Airalab team.

Ease of use, battery life and reliable measurements with Plug&Sense Smart Environment PRO

This project shows how the Internet of Things can have double benefits: to be used for local governments to help their citizens and to open new markets by buying-selling data.

This case study helps to achieve the following Sustainable Development Goals:

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More info:

• For technical details on Smart Environment PRO/Gases PRO Board Guide: Gases PRO v30 Board Guide.
• For technical details on Smart Cities PRO sensors: Smart Cities PRO Board Guide.
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.
• Drones, Sensors and Blockchain for water quality control in the Volga river to promote trustworthy data and transparency.
• Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors.
• New Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities.
• Development platform for remote health monitoring: MySignals

References:

• Prevalence and Correlates of Asthma Among Children in Central St. Petersburg, Russia: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• Airalab Rus: aira.life/en/

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Libelium involved in European project aiming to predict and reduce emissions utilising open source philosophy.

Air pollution is known as ‘the silent killer’ as it is not always visible, but it certainly can be deadly. Pollution causes 29% of lung cancer deaths, 24% of heart attack deaths, 25% of cardiovascular disease deaths and 43% of lung disease deaths, according to WHO (The World Health Organization).

Air pollution is known as the ‘silent killer’ according to WHO

The European Comision and several institutions have led the project Trafair with the aim of estimating the level of pollution on an urban scale in order to achieve one of the UN’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Libelium already knows how to maximize the impact the IoT provides for a better world.

The investigative project Trafair titled “Understanding traffic flows to improve air quality” has a duration of two years (2019-2021) and is a cooperation between the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) of the European Commission and several European partners led by the Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Comune di Modena, Regione Toscana, Concello de Santiago de Compostela, Fundación Pública Gallega Centro Tecnológico de Supercomputación de Galicia, Universidad de Zaragoza and Lepida SpA.

The first step was to choose five cities as locations due to their size and characteristics to provide data that could be scaled up to larger and more polluted cities.

The locations are as follows:

• Zaragoza (Spain) – 600,000 inhabitants
• Santiago de Compostela (Spain) – 95,000 inhabitants
• Florence (Italy) – 382,000 inhabitants
• Modena (Italy) – 185,000 inhabitants
• Pisa (Italy) – 90,000 inhabitants

Location of the project

As road traffic is one of the main causes of environmental pollution in large cities, the Trafair project focuses on developing an air quality forecasting service based on weather forecasts and road traffic flow. At Santiago de Compostela the weather forecast is provided by the Environmental Quality and Climate Change Dept. of the Regional Government (through its MeteoGalicia web server).

Diagram of the project

Several air quiality sensors calibrated with the reference stations have been installed in specific locations depending on the density of inhabitants, outdoor activities and especially vulnerable areas such as hospitals, schools or parks. The information is sent from the device to the Cloud through a LoRaWAN network. In Santiago de Compostela the platform installed is Libelium Smart Environment PRO Plug&Sense! with pollution detectors for measuring NO2, CO and O3 as the main road traffic related air pollutants.

Libelium Plug&Sense! Smart Environment installed in Santiago de Compostela

Each sensor is calibrated individually using the measurements of pollutant concentration as reference data provided by reference air quality stations in the city of application. At Santiago de Compostela the reference data are provided by the Environmental Quality and Climate Change Dept. of the Regional Government. After each calibration, the sensors are installed at various locations in each city to monitor air quality, with special attention to the possible influence of road traffic on air quality.

Trafair solves the challenge of receiving heterogeneous data from different devices and sensors settled by designing a data warehouse that receives the dataset and processes it to unify the measurements in order to share all data consistently. The data warehouse crosses the data with the traffic network information to design a dynamic traffic model and makes air pollution forecasts. The prediction of the air quality in the cities at street level (“street canyon”) uses Lagrangian models of forecasting of air quality executed daily on supercomputers. The dissemination of all the data generated by the air quality sensors and the models is open source for consultation and exploitation.

The air quality data is displayed in a public dasboard

In this last link of the chain, citizens and politicans must take the power.

• Developers can take this data and design web platforms, mobile apps and computer applications, designed to provide useful information to the general population.
• Public administrators can take decisions based on actual information to implement actions related to traffic management (encourage low-emission vehicles, increase public transport service, etc.) in order to reduce pollutant emissions and improve public health.
• Scientists, researchers and technicians can take the data to analyze how pollutant emissions impact in human health, food and animal life.

Libelium Plug&Sense! Smart Environtment PRO sensors are capable of providing voltage values related to the measured atmospheric parameters (concentrations of pollutants, temperature and humidity) in real time (frequency of 1-2 minutes), complying with the objectives and specifications required for the project. “As for the benefits of using Plug & Sense! units within the project, in addition to meeting the desired reliability and accuracy results, it is expected that their ease of installation and use will reduce the time spent on ensuring their operation during the project,” says José Antonio Souto González, professor and researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the university they also point out that Libelium Plug & Sense! units show a good correlation with the measurements of the same pollutants in reference stations, also demonstrating a stable response over time.

Now that we know that the Internet of Things is a great ally in the capture of reliable data, it is time to take action and take measures to curb pollution and ultimately climate change.

This case study helps to achieve the following Sustainable Development Goals:

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If you want to download the article in Spanish, please click here.

More info:

• For technical details on Smart Environment PRO/Gases PRO Board Guide: Gases PRO v30 Board Guide.
• LoRaWAN technical guide
• Read more about Libelium sensor product lines in the Waspmote, Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform and Meshlium Gateway websites.
• Drones, Sensors and Blockchain for water quality control in the Volga river to promote trustworthy data and transparency.
• Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors.
• New Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities.

References:

• Trafair Project: trafair.eu
• MeteoGalicia web server: www.meteogalicia.gal

Santiago has won the Aire Limpio Awards among cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants for its work in maintaining and improving air quality. Thanks in great part to the TRAFAIR project in which Libelium’s technology is an integral element. Santiago de Compostela has installed the Smart Environment PRO Plug&Sense! IoT platform with pollution detectors for measuring NO2, CO, and O3 as the main road traffic-related air pollutants.

The jury have highlighted the scientific rigor of the project, the use of new technologies, and the development of innovative and sustainable services to produce new robust and reliable information.

They also highlighted the valuable and pioneering generation of knowledge that arises from the cooperation between public administrations and universities in Spain and Italy, as stated in the candidacy of the Galician city council.

This is important because the Trafair project involves many parts (including the Libelium Smart Environment PRO sensors) and the designers have intelligently solved the challenge of receiving heterogeneous data from different devices and sensors by designing a data warehouse that receives the dataset and processes unifying the measurements and sharing all data consistently. Also, the dissemination of the data generated by the air quality sensors and the models is shared for consultation and exploitation following the open-source philosophy of the project.

Both the Mayor of Santiago, Xosé Sánchez Bugallo, and the Councillor for the Environment, Mila Castro, expressed their gratitude for the award and the recognition it represents for the municipal effort in improving air quality in the municipality. The councillor recalled that thanks to the TRAFAIR program, air quality sensors are being installed in the areas with the greatest traffic intensity. This will provide real-time images of air conditions at times of increased traffic congestion, to determine better and more efficient management of the flow.

The Aire Limpio Awards aim to encourage cities to take action in reducing pollution and its impact.

Poor air quality is the leading environmental cause of premature death among EU citizens, according to the latest report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA). With 9 out of 10 EU citizens living in urban environments breathing air that exceeds the pollution limits set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

What started as a timid suspicion is being confirmed as the COVID-19 crisis lengthens in time and space: there is a strong correlation between air pollution, and particularly PM2.5 concentrations, and the cases of Covid-19, hospital admissions and deaths.

This statement is increasingly shared by various studies from prestigious institutes and universities.

An study carried out by the Deutch Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a nonprofit research institute and the leading international network in labor economics, indicates that a 1 μ/m3 increase in PM2.5 concentrations is associated with 9.4% cases more than Covid-19, 3% more hospital admissions and 2.3% more deaths. The research has been carried out in more than 300 locations in Netherlands.

Harvard University has also investigated this correlation. In a study conducted in 3,000 counties in the USA (98% of the population) they concluded that an increase of only 1 g/m³ in PM2.5 is associated with a 15% increase in the COVID-19 death rate, 95% confidence interval (CI) (5%, 25%). Results are statistically significant and robust to secondary and sensitivity analyzes.

Another study in China, published in the Science of The Total Environment magazine, came to similar conclusions.

The results of this study highlight the importance of following applying the current regulations on pollution of the air to protect health during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

The COVID19 crisis has irretrievably revealed what we already knew long ago: pollution increases citizens’ respiratory and coronary diseases. Additionally, the side effects of COVID-19 that can already be intuited also especially affect lung capacity, which will further increase this type of disease in the medium and long term future, with the consequent loss of human and economic capital due to the increase of public health spending.

“Being able to measure air pollution and take measures to reduce it is a matter of public health and social welfare and, now, also of economy. The greenest cities will be the richest”, states Alicia Asín, Libelium’s CEO.

It is therefore vital, both for citizens’ health and for the economy, to redouble efforts to reduce pollution. Platforms like Libelium Plug & Sense! Smart Environment PRO, with its PM2.5 sensor, are the great allies for greener cities.

The consequent reduction in pollution resulting from low economic activity cannot deceive governments into lowering their guard against caring for the environment.

Other measures that significantly reduce air pollution in cities are mobility policies. Parking space detection technology also contributes to improving the driver’s experience by reducing driving time, emissions and also noise.

More info:

• Read the Libelium’s Quick Report about Air Quality IoT Solution
• Air Quality Index solution kits in the-iot-marketplace.com
• Smart Parking solution kit in the-iot-marketplace.com