Driving value for Smart Cities with IoT and Location Intelligence solutions

Telefónica is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, listed by Forbes as the 110th largest company in the world. As an innovative leader in areas such as big data and the Internet of Things (IoT), they provide digital solutions that enable a new generation of services and businesses for different types of organizations, including cities.

Telefónica Smart Cities and the IoT team needed to build a Smart Cities dashboard that could process and analyze data from thousands of IoT sensors as actionable insights to enable their public sector customers to run their cities more efficiently and sustainably. The challenge was to find an integrated, FIWARE compliant platform to make large amounts of real-time data accessible to the general public and public administrators.

Thanks to CARTO Engine, Telefónica developed Urbo, a Smart Cities dashboard that processes real-time data, providing role-based access to different decision-makers across a city. With machine learning algorithms, cities and governments are able to optimize resources such as waste collection or energy costs and align KPI to reduce the public sector’s carbon footprint.

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By leveraging CARTO’s software and APIs, Telefónica has been able to build one of the leading Smart Cities products in the European market and provide a real-time IoT dashboard that enables the public sector decision-makers to reduce costs and build more efficient cities.