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Urban heat is one of today’s most pressing climate challenges. Lower rooftop surface temperatures not only improve comfort inside buildings but also help cool entire neighborhoods. In a recent collaboration with Airgilab by GRIC-UPC, Advanticsys provided IoT sensing infrastructure and its Concordia Industrial IoT (IIoT) cloud platform to power an innovative green roof experiment exploring how nature-based solutions can cool cities.

A natural solution backed by data

The Airgilab team set up a living laboratory, testing different roof configurations that mix Mediterranean plants and vegetables with hydroponic and lightweight substrates. Exposed to intense summer sunlight, these green roofs needed continuous monitoring to understand how each combination performs in terms of cooling and water retention.

A network of rugged sensors captured soil surface and roof temperatures along with substrate moisture levels, streaming all measurements in real time to the Concordia IIoT platform.

Green roof testbed — Monitoring and Green Roof Test Beds with Real-Time IoT Data

Concordia dashboards displaying real-time environmental data — Monitoring and Green Roof Test Beds with Real-Time IoT Data

The flexibility behind Concordia

The experiment showcases the adaptability and scalability of Concordia. Originally built for diverse industrial and environmental use cases, the platform seamlessly integrated a complex, outdoor experimental site with mixed vegetation, varying irrigation needs, and changing weather conditions.

Real-time visualization of multiple environmental signals from different sensor types.
Custom dashboards tailored to scientific users as well as operators.
Secure cloud storage and analytics for long-term research and data sharing.

This flexibility allowed the research team to focus on science and decision-making rather than infrastructure.

From research to real-world impact

High-quality, continuous data were essential for fine-tuning irrigation schedules and quantifying the cooling potential of each green roof design. Insights from this work can help architects, city planners, and building owners adopt greener, more climate-resilient roofing solutions. This collaboration illustrates our commitment to supporting sustainable urban innovations through flexible, data-driven IoT solutions.

“Concordia is built to adapt. From industrial energy management to urban ecology, the platform’s ability to integrate new sensors, visualize data in real time, and support complex analytics makes it ideal for diverse environmental and research applications.”

Enabling a greener future

By providing robust IoT sensing and an adaptable cloud platform, Advanticsys helps accelerate the adoption of nature-based, data-driven solutions. Whether in cities, industries, or remote environmental sites, Concordia ensures that new ideas can move from pilot experiments to scalable, real-world climate action.

At Advanticsys, we continue to demonstrate how digital innovation can bring tangible value to traditional sectors such as agriculture. Our latest deployments of advanced energy monitoring systems for irrigation are delivering real-time insights and efficiency improvements across Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.

These solutions combine cellular-enabled smart meters with our Concordia IoT cloud platform, enabling farmers and irrigation operators to manage groundwater pumping systems more intelligently and sustainably.

Real-Time Monitoring and Intelligent Management

Through the Concordia platform, users gain full visibility into the energy consumption of their irrigation pumps. The system records consumption data at regular intervals, enabling:

Accurate tracking of electricity usage per well
Identification of high-energy-consuming systems
Remote monitoring of pump performance and detection of anomalies
Preventive maintenance scheduling
Enhanced control over pump operating hours

These capabilities help reduce operational costs, improve resource planning, and contribute to the environmental sustainability of agricultural operations.

Driving Agricultural Digitalization

By applying IoT-based monitoring technologies, Advanticsys supports the transformation of agriculture into a data-driven, efficient, and more sustainable sector. Our solution empowers producers to make informed decisions, optimize energy use, and extend the lifetime of critical infrastructure like water pumps.

Whether it’s in arid coastal areas or large-scale crop operations, our goal remains the same: deliver smart, scalable, and practical solutions that improve productivity while preserving natural resources.

The Center for Advanced Studies in Fruticulture (CEAF) is a research center located in the O’Higgins Region, in central Chile, whose objective is to improve the scientific and technological competitiveness of the region through solutions and technological innovations that improve productivity of key fruit species.

In partnership with our subsidiary company Epssilon Networks, established in Chile since 2011, we have recently implemented a Controlled-Environment Agriculture solution with professional LED lighting for plant growth provided by our partner Valoya, with carefully selected lighting spectra for maximum crop performance. This system has been deployed inside a growth chamber, isolated from outdoor ambient variables, thus allowing the cultivation of crops under controlled conditions.

This system, like all that we deploy in this market, can be controlled and regulated through the use of the UCM-316 controller, capable of performing scheduled controlled actions or ad-hoc and monitored by our wireless temperature, humidity and CO2 sensor, IAQM, through the Concordia Cloud platform, where data is sent in real time and from where notifiable events are generated by email.

By using this technology, it is expected to achieve energy savings of 40% to 50% compared to traditional sodium lighting systems, and under certain conditions could be more than 60%. The technology will also help reduce growth times by approximately 22%, while generating more vigorous plants. As an example, crops that usually take 12 weeks under traditional fluorescent or sodium lighting systems, would take only 9 weeks on average to reach a similar and even better development stage than with traditional systems, and only 50 % of energy consumption. In this way, it is possible to increase the number of productive cycles in a given period of time, by using the same infrastructure.

Typical Controlled-environment agriculture solution