FEB 10 2026
Revolutionise urban safety with Ubiwhere: the EDGELESS projects Smart City #2 case study
Ubiwhere's Smart City Surveillance use case in the EDGELESS project aims to detect risk situations such as road accidents and other critical events, enabling the immediate activation of emergency teams and competent authorities. The primary aim is to reduce response times and ensure faster, more effective action.
This solution is based on computer vision algorithms running on edge computing nodes near the data sources, namely, the cameras installed on Smart Lamp Posts (SLPs). The use case will be implemented on Ubiwhere’s testbed, which comprises three edge nodes interconnected to Ubiwhere’s Data Centre in Aveiro.
Given that this solution handles sensitive data and operates in edge computing environments, significant challenges arise, including preserving privacy, managing limited resources, and ensuring resilience against network failures. With these challenges in mind, the following essential requirements were defined:
- Availability: to ensure service and application continuity, it is essential to enable dynamic workload redistribution between edge nodes and the cloud. Data must be distributed to prevent data loss, and when a node becomes unavailable, the Edgeless project must detect anomalies and trigger recovery mechanisms to ensure data integrity and service continuity;
- Scalability: at an urban scale, dozens or even hundreds of edge nodes and video streams are expected. To handle this large volume of data, Edgeless must be able to dynamically manage available resources, optimising their use to maintain high performance;
- Privacy and Security: through Edgeless’ reliable execution environment, sensitive data must be protected to ensure public confidence in the surveillance solution and prevent the spread of vulnerabilities;
- Hardware Heterogeneity: the solution must be compatible with different types of hardware, from lightweight devices to more robust computing infrastructures.
Are you interested in finding out more? You can follow the latest updates on the Edgeless project here.
