The Internet of Things at Expo Smart City!
Giulio Coraggio
Solving Legal Challenges of the Future | Head of Intellectual Property & Technology | Partner @ DLA Piper | IT, AI, Privacy, Cyber & Gaming Lawyer
The Expo area in Milan in one of the 1st examples of smart cities in Italy which shows the massive potentials of the IoT, but what regulatory changes are necessary to replicate it across Europe?
The Smart City
The Expo Milan 2015 is one of the major events of the year that will host from 1 May to 31 October 2015 over 20 million visitors to its 1.1 million square meters of exhibition area.
The Expo exhibition area is also a perfect example of smart city with 200 km of optical fiber, a 4G Lte network with 18 antennas, 2,770 access points and over a hundred multimedia terminals. Also, a service delivery platform has been built in order to ensure on a daily basis the performance of 2.5 million transactions, the delivery of over 7.5 million marketing notifications based on users’ location, 150,000 emails and 2.6 million text messages.