Industries · Public Infrastructure
Public assets, visible and accountable
Municipalities and utilities look after assets spread across streets, sites and networks. LIOMO connects them to software that shows their condition and use, so maintenance and services can be planned on evidence.
Context
Assets spread across a whole territory
Public infrastructure is defined by scale and spread. A municipality or utility may be responsible for car parks, transport depots, pumping stations, street lighting, bins and vehicle fleets across a whole city or region. Many of these assets are inspected on rounds and repaired when someone reports a problem.
Public bodies also work under particular constraints: long asset lives, procurement rules, tight budgets and accountability to residents. Systems need to use open standards where possible, run on equipment that lasts outdoors for years, and produce records that can be explained to councils and the public. Connected infrastructure is most useful when it fits those constraints rather than adding another closed system.
Challenges
What makes it hard
01
Assets checked by rounds
Inspections on fixed schedules miss problems in between and visit assets that do not need attention.
02
Little data on use
Decisions about parking, depots and services are often made without a reliable record of how they are used.
03
Fleets across departments
Waste, maintenance and service vehicles are run by different departments, with little shared view of location, use or cost.
04
Long-lived, mixed equipment
New systems have to work alongside equipment installed over decades and supplied by many different makers.
Applications
How LIOMO applies
- Smart Parking
Public car parks and kerbside
A LIOMO project can include bay sensors or entrance counting, occupancy information for signage and apps, and records of use that support decisions on capacity and pricing.
- IoT Solutions
Street-level and network assets
Bins, pumping stations, water levels, lighting cabinets and other street assets can report their condition over low-power networks such as LoRaWAN or NB-IoT, so fixed rounds can become visits based on need.
- Fleet Management
Municipal and depot fleets
On LIOMO Fleet, waste, maintenance and service vehicles from different departments share one live map, with geofences around depots and service areas, driver scores and costs per vehicle.
- EV Charging
Depot and public charging
For transport depots and public car parks, a LIOMO project can cover charger selection and management over open protocols such as OCPP, with charging scheduled around vehicle duties and site capacity.
- Energy Management Systems
Energy across public sites
Metering public buildings, depots and pumping sites shows where energy goes and helps prioritise efficiency work.
Illustrative scenario
Illustrative scenario: a municipal services department
Illustrative example, not a client project
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Connect: car parks, bins and vehicles
Occupancy sensing is added to the public car parks, fill-level sensors are fitted to a set of public bins, and GPS trackers are installed in the waste and maintenance vehicles.
- 02
Collect: one record across services
Car-park occupancy, bin fill levels and vehicle positions are gathered into one central store over mobile and low-power networks.
- 03
Understand: use and condition over time
The department sees how each car park fills through the day, which bins fill fastest, and how vehicles are used across routes and depots.
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Act: services planned on evidence
Collection rounds are planned around the bins that need emptying, residents are pointed to car parks with space, and vehicle use and costs inform the next budget.
Outcomes to aim for
Outcomes to aim for
Maintenance based on need
Visits planned around the actual condition of assets rather than a fixed calendar.
Decisions backed by records
Usage and condition data that can be shown to councils and residents.
Better use of public space
Parking information that helps drivers find space and helps planners size capacity.
One view of public fleets
Vehicles from several departments visible, measured and costed in one place.
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Talk to us about connected systems for public infrastructure
Tell us about your vehicles, sites or equipment. For fleets, we show you LIOMO Fleet itself. For other solutions, we walk you through how a system would be designed for your operation and answer the technical questions.