City of Takamatsu. FIWARE4Cities book ed. 5

In this weekly series, we present to you each time one innovative city on its digital journey and on its way to become smart(er). This time, we have the City of Takamatsu for you.

Takamatsu is a city that has been actively promoting its Smart City policy.

Setting the target to become “a city of sustainable growth”, it aims to meet specific regional challenges and stimulate regional economic growth through digital innovation. It does this through the collection, sharing, and re-use of a wide range of IoT data. For instance, one of the first-year initiatives promoted by the city is its disaster resilience initiative.

It, hereby, works toward maintaining a safe and secure community for its citizens by working on a real-time understanding of risky situations, thereby accommodating early and appropriate evacuation plans for citizens.

In 2018, Takamatsu adopted FIWARE to move their vision for a smarter city forward under the framework of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications project, which highlights cross-segment utilisation of data to deliver truly smart services.

Common IoT Platform

Takamatsu City’s IoT-based visualization system for disaster management integrates a wide selection of information and visualizes the real-time emergency situation on the integrated dashboard. It allows the city to mitigate disaster damages by proactively delivering flood sandbags and notifying the local traffic service providers of an emergency situation.

In addition, the municipality can make quick and timely decisions when ordering or advising evacuation.

Takamatsu City’s data-sharing-oriented Common IoT Platform is based on FIWARE technology.

The platform stores and manages acquired data in a unified manner using its context management function and provides it to the data user in the form of a standard API.

In addition, the system offers API management services, geospatial mapping, history management, and ID management (authentication and approval).