The Experience of Using the IES Cities Citizen-Centric IoT Platform

The race to create the dominant platform for the world of the Internet of Things is a crowded one, with the number of potential available solutions constantly increasing. Many of these technologies are restricted by being platform-specific, application-specific, or not being open source. In particular, despite people being an integral part of the IoT ecosystem, the need for people-oriented applications and features has not yet been prioritized. IES Cities aims to address this by being a new cloud-based, citizen-centric platform. It is an open source, adaptable, and easy-to-use solution that has been designed around the needs of citizens and has been extensively tested in real-world deployments in a number of European cities. IES Cities is a working system that allows and encourages the building and rapid deployment of people- oriented, cross-platform applications across a wide range of smart environments.