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The platform’s components are comprised of the following:

• IoT agents for receiving data. • CKAN open content.
• IoT device management portal. • Transparency and open data portal.

• Interconnection broker. • Big Data system.

• Platform administration portal. • Analytical databases.
• NGSI data adapter. • Microstrategy BI environment.

• Small data storage module. • Data visualization and analysis tools.

The platform also has several servers for the execution of data acquisition and integration tools
with external systems (ETLs). It is secured through user authentication, systems monitoring and
auditing. It offers several integration interfaces for sensors and devices data acquisition, and for
access to information on the platform. Figure 16 shows a high-level description of IT components
and their relationship with smart city challenges.

València is deploying a large number of sensors and actuators to monitor the environment,
meteorology, noise, luminaires and copper theft, presence detectors and capacity control, cameras,
waste, parking, electric vehicle charging stations, energy, water, gas consumption and building
management systems (BMS), etc.

The València unified dashboard integrates all kinds of resources from the platform, data from
municipal services, data from devices deployed in the city, social media data, etc., including
georeferenced data and data that comes from the city’s open data portal . It links with individual
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dashboards or scorecards for economic management and budgetary control, mobility and traffic,
open data services and the municipal geographic information system services, etc.

On the citizen side, the platform links with AppValència that integrates into a single space
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geolocated information (map) of bus and metro stops, municipal bicycle service, notifications in
real time with traffic alerts, emergencies, as well as a section on Tourism and culture with routes,
historical monuments, etc.

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