Wireless sensor platform monitors smart city services

A domestic, urban, or industrial environment can only be smart when devices and sensors installed in various locations or objects are part of a network that is managed coherently and cohesively. In a smart city, data coming from the various 'urban' nodes can be used to develop services for efficient energy management, reduced environmental footprint and improved maintenance for public infrastructure and buildings.

At ST's booth visitors will have the opportunity to learn how an integrated wireless sensor network platform enables monitoring, control and delivery of smart city services using Paradox Engineering's PE. AMI smart city solution and PE.STONE IoT platform, connected with ST's STM32 Nucleo development boards, various X-Nucleo extension boards and proximity sensor boards. 

Paradox Engineering has advanced expertise and market experience in radio and ultra-low-power design, as well as network design, set-up and management.  PE.AMI is Paradox Engineering's multi-application platform for hybrid wireless/PLC narrowband/broadband full mesh networks, offering multiple off-the-shelf vertical applications for smart lighting, smart parking, smart metering, smart waste, and EV-charger management.

It supports IP cameras for video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public WiFi, and other urban applications. PE.STONE is Paradox Engineering's integrated hardware and software module for easy development of high-performance and cost-effective IoT applications.

It enables projects for smart cities, smart grid, energy management, wireless sensor networks for any M2M, HAN, HUMS and industrial-control systems. PE.STONE forms the basis of the PE.AMI platform. Both Paradox Engineering's IPv6/6LoWPAN-compliant off-the-shelf PE.AMI platform and PE.STONE module have a self-recovery function and enable highly robust and scalable mesh networks.

Both Paradox Engineering's PE.AMI and PE.STONE platforms use ST's STM32L high-performance, low-power 32-bit MCU and SPIRIT1, a sub-GHz wireless transceiver IC that provides high receiver sensitivity, offers low current consumption and is equipped with high-performance software. The PE.AMI wireless lighting control board also contains ST's energy-metering IC for monitoring power consumption.