SmartSantander: A joint service provision facility and experimentation-oriented testbed, within a smart city environment

In order to foster user support, involvement and engagement in ICT-based innovation areas, Smart Cities position as important areas of application being considered as excellent playgrounds for Future Internet (FI) research and experimentation. For this purpose, SmartSantander project aims at the design and implementation of a novel architecture, covering a twofold approach: experimentation support and service provision. In the city of Santander, and within the project framework, it has been carried out a dense network deployment associated to a set of use cases, oriented to provide a service and support experimentation over them. In addition to this, different applications running on main mobile operating systems (Android and IOS) are developed in order to foster the citizens’ involvement.