Digital Malmö - a city-wide IoT platform and LoRaWAN network

Background

In 2017 the City of Malmö decided that improving life for its citizens would take a digital transformation: a closer connection between the city and the people who live there, new forms of public service, and data that, once depersonalised, could be used by researchers, public authorities and businesses. The programme was called Digital Malmö.

Within it, the Smart City focus area set two concrete goals: a common IoT management platform for the whole city, and a first application in which the property and traffic departments could follow water levels in the canals and in Öresund in real time. The second goal came from the city’s cloudburst plan, drawn up after the heavy rainfall of 2014.

What the city asked for

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What Sensative delivered

Sensative delivered the Yggio platform and a city-wide LoRaWAN network. All data passes through the platform and is available through its API. Sensative also brought its expertise to the implementation, and took responsibility for support and management of the platform.

Outcome, and today

The project closed in December 2018 with the platform in place: a city-wide infrastructure that any department can use, delivering systematic, real-time information on the water levels in Öresund and the city’s canals. From there, a central management organisation takes over: connecting sensors, transporting data, applying operating rules, making data available through the API, and storing it.

Malmö is still a Sensative customer. Today the city also runs its RSMP traffic signals through Yggio: the same platform that was procured for water levels now carries the traffic signal controllers as well, which is what a city-wide platform is for.