Skip to main content

Indra introduces its urban platform for smart city management

Spain-headquartered technology company Indra has designed an Urban Interoperability Platform (UOIP), which it says aids a city’s different systems to exchange information and define behaviour patterns and adapt services to real needs. Using the company’s Atanea technology to integrate and manage all services and solutions comprising a city ecosystem, Indra says the solution ensures greater efficiency in providing services as a result of the coordination of resources available in the city. The company claims
January 2, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
Spain-headquartered technology company 509 Indra has designed an Urban Interoperability Platform (UOIP), which it says aids a city’s different systems to exchange information and define behaviour patterns and adapt services to real needs.

Using the company’s Atanea technology to integrate and manage all services and solutions comprising a city ecosystem, Indra says the solution ensures greater efficiency in providing services as a result of the coordination of resources available in the city.

The company claims the Atanea solution has been designed with two different but complementary approaches. The design has been based on Indra's Hermes system, which provides mobility management centres with the monitoring of different subsystems and continuous detection of traffic changes and public transport, prioritising or managing different mixed means of transport such as buses or public bicycles.

It is also based on recent results from the European Smart Objects for Intelligent Applications (SOFIA)R&D project, where Indra has been a participant.  This open source service integration software package is based on web technology, interoperability and intelligent sensor networks that enable automation for cities and its ecosystem, as well as providing intelligent tailored services over mobile devices, such as smart phones.

According to Indra, its UOIP is an integration centre where information from three large system modules comes together: measurement and sensor equipment installed across the city, the coordinated service management modules offering global solutions for the city and city analysis systems which collect information from other subsystems to provide critical information for city management.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Smarter transport remains key to smart cities
    January 9, 2018
    Colin Sowman looks at some of the challenges and solutions that will provide enhanced transport efficiency in tomorrow’s smarter cities. However you define a ‘smart city’, one of the key ingredients will be an efficient transport system. As most governments and city authorities face financial constraints, incremental improvements in the existing systems is the most likely way forward. In London, new trains and signalling are improving the capacity of the Underground but that then reveals previously
  • The smart in smart parking
    March 29, 2018
    Whether you want to reduce congestion, increase parking revenue or reduce occupancy – or a mixture of all three – there is plenty of technology available. Andrew Bardin Williams considers the pros and cons. Drawn in by the promise of Smart City initiatives, communities across North America are embracing smart parking solutions in an effort to change citizens’ transportation behaviours for the better. They are doing this by using policy and ITS solutions to help de-incentivise parking for most people while
  • Traffic cameras embrace AI
    December 19, 2022
    Artificial intelligence is spreading into many aspects of mobility – but what about traffic management and enforcement cameras? ITS International invited a few vision experts to ponder a couple of leading questions…
  • GPS delivers accurate journey time data for UTC
    January 27, 2012
    A new solution developed as a consequence of the UK's Freeflow project fuses GPS and UTC loop data to give more accurate predictions of journey times, benefting network managers and travellers alike. By Matt Cowley and Gareth Jones, Trakm8 and John Polak and Rajesh Krishnan, Imperial College London