Customer story
SmartSpires turns Belval campus into a connected testbed for tomorrow’s cities
"Spinverse provided invaluable support in bringing SmartSpires to life. Their expert guidance through the CEF proposal process and their help in navigating complex administrative and coordination challenges were essential to our success. With strong project management skills, deep knowledge of EU-funded initiatives, and unwavering reliability, Spinverse has proven to be an exceptional partner. Working with their team is not only seamless and professional, but also genuinely energizing and inspiring."
Clara Ulken, Senior Project Manager EU Tendering, Gcore.
Customer story in numbers
3.1
M€
3
Years
4
Partners
Funding instrument
Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
The three-year SmartSpires project will demonstrate how digital infrastructure and AI can power safer, cleaner and more efficient urban services for residents and local authorities.
Key challenges
SmartSpires aims to combine densified 5G connectivity with edge computing infrastructure to enable AI-driven and IoT-based services in ultra low-latency environments. The project will deploy at least three smart towers, each equipped with 5G for advanced connectivity, computing for local AI and edge applications, IoT sensors and various local add-ons to support innovative use-cases in the campus.
How we reached the goals
Spinverse supported the project consortium in the successful proposal preparation phase and upon the launch of the project, also provides project coordination services.
Key takeaways
A Smart City Living Lab will serve as an experimentation platform for testing and scaling new 5G-enabled urban solutions. In parallel, three additional use cases are targeted to directly exploit the smart towers: mobility services will leverage 5G and edge computing to improve public transportation and traffic management; crowd analytics will enhance public safety and urban planning by analysing the real-time flow of people and traffic; and waste management will leverage IoT sensors and local processing to optimise collection and recycling processes.
Impact of the project
The project’s infrastructure and use cases are strategically designed to significantly improve urban mobility, sustainability and public safety, thereby contributing to major EU goals in green and digital transformation.
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