PAIoT Network: A Unique Regional IoT Network for Very Different Applications

Abstract

LepidaSpa, the ICT in-house company of the Public Administrations of the Emilia Romagna region, has realized a regional IoT public network‡, based on the LoRaWan§ technology, free of charge for all public administrations, as well as to private citizens, potentially enabling the collection of relevant data from thousands of new sensors and making them accessible to both the owners of the sensors and, limitedly to institutional or public interest scopes, to every PA entity. The innovative aspects of the proposed solution mainly concern the extreme simplicity of the sensors installation, the low entry costs for stakeholders, both public and private, who want to deploy their own sensors, a centralized service that collects and makes data available in the cloud, the replicability of IoT projects on a regional scale.