El Campello will install smart buoys to measure sea temperature and wave height

El Campello will install equipment to monitor specific areas of the town. This will be part of the contract to provide and set up digital signs with sensors. For example, vehicle-counting cameras, weather stations, and smart oceanographic buoys will be included.

The European Union is paying for this service through the Next Generation funds as part of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. The service has been put out to market for €167,500. After winning the contract, the company will have three months to set up all the equipment, start the administration platform, and set up and test the visualisation environments.

Panels, buoys, and sensors

The goal of this initiative is to improve transportation, cut down on pollution, and give consumers information in real time. The contract says that cameras will be put up at the gates to the parking lots to count cars and keep an eye on how many places are available. There will be three parking lots: one on Morera Street with 167 places, one on Oviedo Street with 135 spaces, and one on Gabriel Miró Street with 121 spaces.

As part of this service, there will be information panels at the entrances to designated parking lots to show how many spaces are available. There will also be interactive outdoor totems at the Muchavista tourism office and on San Bartolomé Street (the fisherman’s monument) that show tourist and business information. There will also be non-touch outdoor totems for marketing and spreading the word.

There are also plans for smart oceanographic buoys that will measure the temperature of the water, the quality of the air, the height of the waves, the speed of the wind, and the currents in the ocean. Environmental and meteorological stations will be set up to gather information on air quality, noise levels, and weather conditions in order to figure out these factors. Traceability sensors will also be utilised to keep track of where individuals are by picking up mobile devices over three different connections: WiFi, Bluetooth, and BLE.

Cameras for parking

The cameras that are placed up in parking lots must have computer vision algorithms that can count how many cars come and go with at least 95% accuracy. Their jobs will involve counting cars, finding licence plates, spotting activity, and automatically covering faces to stay within the law on data protection.

Panels of information

Every minute, the panels that show the information from the cameras must be updated automatically and reflect the number of available spots in a clear and easy-to-read way. They will be LED panels that need to work with the City Council’s parking management system.

Oceanographic buoys that are smart

The buoy needs to have very accurate sensors, communication technologies that work on their own, and the capacity to send real-time data to a management platform that is not nearby. Its sensors will check the temperature of the water, the height and duration of the waves, the speed and direction of the wind, and the ocean currents.

Weather stations

The weather station will check the temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rain, solar radiation, UV index, and air pressure. These gadgets will run on solar power and have a backup battery. It will be on Muchavista Beach, near to the Tourism Office, as the plans say it would be.

Station for air quality

The air quality measuring station needs to have high-precision sensors for ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, UV radiation, and solar radiation.

Sensors for traceability

The traceability sensors need to be able to find mobile devices that are using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interfaces without revealing their identities. The gadget must use an immediate anonymisation method to make sure that no personally identifiable information is captured. They will be put up in Carrer La Mar, Torre de l’Illeta, and the TRAM stations in downtown, Muchavista, and Fabraquer.

Totems that you can touch and ones that you can’t

There will be interactive outdoor totems that will give travellers and locals access to cultural and tourist information about El Campello. They will be outside the Muchavista tourism office, on C/ San Bartolomé, the Monumento al Pescador, and Avenida Generalitat (the old booth close to the Central Tram station in El Campello).

The non-touch totem will only show information; it won’t interact with it. It will be near to the Monument of the Percador, outside of Calle San Bartolomé.