“The project placed Oporto on the map of intelligent cities at the European and world level,” said the Faculty of Engineering researcher at the University of Oporto before adding that the €2.3 million investment had endowed the city with an “innovative infrastructure for data capture” spanning "over 800 sensor equipped devices."


The project, financed by the European Commission and in partnership with Oporto municipal council over the last three years, had resulted in a large number of studies and improvements to the city’s quality of life said Barros.


Monitoring the stress levels of municipal police and bus drivers as well as the heartbeats of “180 users of the SenseMyCity application developed for smartphones” with 400 buses also now wi-fi fitted were among the projects Barros referenced before adding waste collection patterns would be the next area of focus.