A Wireless Sensor Network as a Living Lab for the Development of Solutions for IoT and Smart Cities

As internet connectivity and digital solutions spread all over, it has become necessary to have the possibility of experimenting and developing solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) into a laboratory with similar conditions as those of the big scale application. Living Labs are a solution for such a need and in this paper we present the implementation of a living lab based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) aimed to help the learning of this technology by giving the opportunity of experimenting and developing solutions. The WSN works primarily on the ZigBee protocol but, being an educational and developing tool, it also permits to add devices working in other protocols like WiFi, 3G and Sigfox, that we have already experienced. The system includes the possibility that the collected data be kept into an internet server and be able to be displayed to users through a mobile application.

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