Introduction - Libelium Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking Technical Manual

Introduction

1. Introduction
The new version of Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking, the solution for Smart Cities that allows citizens to detect
available parking spots.
The new device is easier and cheaper to deploy as it is mounted on the road surface. Unlike most market versions, it does not
need to dig a hole in the ground for installation, reducing installation time from 30 to 5 minutes and allowing to be replaced by
another unit in case of maintenance in just 10 minutes.
The smaller size -reduced over 50%-, its higher accuracy and reliability, and the faster time of detection, besides the independence
from temperature are also important features of new Smart Parking device.
New sensor system is fully compatible with LPWAN radio technologies -LoRaWAN and Sigfox- to enable long range and low
power consumption. It can be connected with both radios for the European 868 MHz band and for the 900-930 MHz band (US
/ Canada). One unique feature of the system is that it allows to use both radio technologies at the same time or changing from
one to the other using the manager system from the Cloud.
With the new sensor system, one base station can give service to thousands of devices around a range of several kilometers
in urban environment. This fact provides lower costs of installation since the number of base stations can be dramatically
reduced. Besides, the new sensor model has been optimized for really low-power operation, so the battery lifetime is extended
up to 10 years easily.
The new Smart Parking node has been granted with the CE / FCC / IC marks and provides a robust software which works
out-of-the-box. Developers do not have to cope with programming the nodes, they just have to specify the values of key
parameters in the firmware such as working cycle or night mode to be ready to work. Remote management and bidirectional
communication allows to change several parameters of the nodes from the Cloud. This means we can reprogram thousands of
nodes by just setting the right values from our web browser in the management platform.
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