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Welcome to CityLab, the City of Things smart cities FIRE testbed.

This testbed is intended for wireless networking experimentation in the unlicensed spectrum. It is located in the city center of Antwerp, Belgium, and belongs to the University of Antwerp/imec. The testbed can be found in the streets in and around the city campus of the University of Antwerp, in an area of about 0.5km by 0.5km. See below for a map of the testbed.

Hardware currently is hosted at 32 locations with another 22 planned,. Each location has its own gateway attached to houses in the street or installed on a pole on a roof. See Node Locations.

Every gateway is equipped with the following technologies:

• WiFi 802.11ac on 2.4 GHz and 5GHz
• Bluetooth 4.0
• IEEE 802.15.4 on 2.4 GHz and IEEE 802.15.4g on 868MHz
• DASH7 on 433MHz and 868MHz
• LoRaWAN on 868MHz (client only)

For more information about the exact hardware use, please conssult the Node Specifications page.

CityLab is part of the larger imec iLab.t testbed offer.

Listed below are a number of pages that should help you to get stated on the CityLab testbed. Since this Wiki is still very much a work in progress the documentation is far from complete. If you get stuck or you have a question and you can't find the answer on this wiki, please don't hesitate to contact us. You can reach us at . We'll be happy to help you along and update the documentation where necessary.

Some Useful Pages

• Getting Started
• Usage Policy
• FAQ
• Node Specifications
• Node Locations
• Available Disk Images
• Past Experiments and Usage

Testbed nodes

A full-screen version of this map can be found here. An explanation on how to use this map can be found here.