TRESCIMO M2M-IoT testbed: smart cities solutions in Europe and Africa

Abstract

Smart City services are becoming more prevalent. These services have the potential to improve the quality of life of citizens (e.g. detecting and managing pollution) and also to make better use of resources (i.e. water and energy). The European and South African contexts vary significantly thus necessitating either different services or significant refactoring of existing services. In order to allow cross-fertilization of solutions from both continents, experimental facilities that support component federation are required. TRESCIMO is a project that created facilities to experiment with services distributed over continents for two IoT domain trials and developed a general solution for scaling the IoT infrastructure in a Proof-of-Concept. This paper analyzes TRESCIMO functional components and presents the results and the value added to the FIRE suite of testbeds.