The project will be based on the Weightless communications standard and will be used to demonstrate the ability of a city-wide M2M infrastructure to cope with a large number of static and mobile sensors.
The technology is being supplied and managed by BT and Neul who, working with Milton Keynes Council, will install a network of Weightless base stations to provide coverage across the city for low power, connected sensors to allow innovators to use the infrastructure as a test bed for commercial applications, new products and new services.
“We see this exciting project as a means of establishing an open innovation environment to support the creation of M2M and IoT applications across a whole city,” said Alan Ward, head of corporate ICT practice at BT.
“This could include anything from intelligent monitoring of parking spaces in the city to networked bins which signal when they need collecting. The project will showcase...