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Pilot project: Smart docking station for climate sensors at the Wolf site

In the Smart City Lab Basel, we already successfully tested the LoRaWAN gateway based on Zhaga last year in collaboration with IWB. The goal was to optimize connectivity on the site and to densify the network locally. The gateway was convincing: In no time at all, it was mounted on the integrated Zhaga interface of the DigiStreet luminaire on the site. Exactly where densification of the LoRAWAN network was required.

"It was so easy to install the gateways that we had to ask the installer twice if that was really it. The test with the signal strength subsequently gave us the certainty that it really is so easy to give a public lighting a LoRaWAN gateway."

Dominik Born, Innovation Manager IWB

Smart Docking Station as carrier infrastructure for sensors

Now comes the next pilot project - the use of a "Smart Docking Station". As part of the "Smart Climate - Plug & Sense" project, initiated by the Smart Regio Basel association, the latest generation of climate and noise sensors are being tested at the Wolf site. To supply these with the necessary energy in an uncomplicated way, we have installed a "Smart Docking Station" on a light pole on the site, which serves as a carrier infrastructure for sensors of all kinds.  It is equipped with three Zhaga interfaces as well as two USB ports and can be easily expanded with new sensors at any time.

In use on the site is a Zhaga-based fine dust sensor, a collaboration between ELEKTRON AG and Sensirion. The prototype "Nubo" was mounted directly on a Zhaga interface In addition, noise sensors from Libelium are being tested (via the docking station's USB ports), communicating via IWB's LoRaWAN network on the site and providing valuable data to the Basel-Stadt cantonal noise office.

Would you like to learn more? Contact our specialist Roland Di Gregorio

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Background "Smart Climate - Plug & Sense" project

Climate change and increasing urbanization pose major challenges. The use of sensor technology enables the optimization of urban infrastructures and supports urban planning with important data. This is exactly where the project "Smart Climate - Plug & Sense" of the Smart Regio Basel association comes in. Since September 2019, a network of around 200 climate sensors has already been established throughout the Basel region. The sensors are operated via the IWB's LoRAWAN network.

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