Kerlink and ITM Atlantique Engineering School are helping local authorities’ decision-makers to join the Smart City movement.

30.04.2020

Smart cities are blossoming around the world, offering the possibility for new applications to be deployed: smart public lighting, intelligent parking systems, public buildings energy efficiency, environmental sensors or optimization of waste management.

The challenge for local authorities and their managers lies in the effort to bring to understand their territory as a whole, without creating silos by need, while having sufficient knowledge of a sometimes complex technological ecosystem, with many players and a very wide range of solutions.

From December 2019 to March 2020, Kerlink conducted a stuy project in partnership with the IMT Atlantique Rennes (Institut Mines-Télécom) on this thematic. Three students in their final year of engineering school (Andres Felipe Vargas Montenegro, Clément Courtel and Mathieu Travel) worked on the marketing of IoT services in order to help Kerlink tp improve its knowledge and focus of the market of connected cities and communities.

Supervised by their professors Thibault de Swarte, Associate Professor in Social Sciences and Ph.D in Management Sciences, and Patrick Reffait, Lecturer-researcher in marketing-management of services and international marketing, they first carried out a study of the IoT market and its a state of the art, enriched with a more detailed analysis of a smart city segment, the smart lighting. They modelled this use case by identifying the dimensioning criteria to take into account and the costs associated to the deployment of a complete solution by creating simple simulation tool for local authority decision-makers.

The purpose of this simulator is to bring an answer to the recurring questions of the local officials: “How to deploy an IoT network? “Which global network should I deploy to handle this type of need? “Which return on investment to expect? »