City Energy Consumption: Together with the air quality
monitoring service, an urban IoT may provide a service to
monitor the energy consumption of the whole city, thus enabling
authorities and citizens to get a clear and detailed view of the
amount of energy required by the different services (public
lighting, transportation, traffic lights, control cameras, heating/
cooling of public buildings, and so on). In turn, this will make it
possible to identify the main energy consumption sources and to
set priorities in order to optimize their behavior. This goes in the
direction indicated by the European directive for energy efficiency improvement in the next years. In order to obtain such a
service, power draw monitoring devices must be integrated with
the power grid in the city. In addition, it will also be possible to
enhance these service with active functionalities to control local
power production structures (e.g., photovoltaic panels).