Success Story - Smart Cities -

TELEKOM SRBIJA KEY FIGURES

930000 over €1billion Over 5.8 million 560000 broadband of annual revenue mobile subscribers TV subscribers TELEKOM subscribers SRBIJA technology, conducted company’s infrastructure and to research into various IoT opportunities support maintenance crews, Telekom

Telekom Srbija and conducted several trials in order to Solution Srbija deployed over 300 gateways find a robust long-term solution. and 8000 sensors provided by Serbian implements manhole company Bitgear along with the monitoring system using We are proud to be the first in application and dashboard. Each time the region to launch the LoRaWAN a manhole was opened the sensor LoRaWAN IoT network, we have been able would send an alert to the application Successful Smart City use case with to solve a decennial problem and and dashboard to notify of the move- Actility’s local partner and reseller establish security control of our ment of a manhole cover. If this move- underground cable infrastructure, ment was not planned, security agen- Teri Engineering and end-user one of the key resources for Telekom Srbija undisturbed business cies were then contacted to intercept Mr Milorad Bjelogrlic, Telekom Srbija the suspected thieves. Within just Telekom Srbija a.d. is a leading regional three months, three groups of telecommunications group headquar- Telekom Srbija’s key requirements for thieves were arrested during the tered in , serving , Monte- a manhole monitoring system included attempted theft of the cables. negro, , and Solution long distance coverage, high sensiti- Telekom Srbija successfully trialed . For 20 years it has had a leading vity and a long autonomous battery and then implemented LoRaWAN role in the fixed, mobile, Internet, multi- life. The only solution thorough enough for their requirements was LoRaWAN. to prevent the theft of their telecom media and digital service spheres both Therefore, after a careful selection cables by monitoring the opening and in Serbia and in the region at large. By closing of manhole covers. The solu- process Telekom Srbija selected Acti- fostering the innovative spirit, Telekom tion has now been implemented in the lity’s ThingPark solution to power a Srbija continuously develops new tech- four largest cities in Serbia, including national-scale commercial low power nological solutions for the benefit of its Belgrade, and full nationwide cove- wide area (LPWA) network roll-out, customers and the environment. Their rage is planned during 2019. Addi- becoming Actility’s 50th commercial services are synonymous with trust, tional smart city and other IoT use national operator customer. superior performance and innovative cases are now enabled and planned by technologies. Actility’s regional partner and reseller, Telekom Srbija, leveraging on the built TERI Engineering, which has been a infrastructure and LoRaWAN cove- Telekom Srbija had an issue with the leading systems integrator and supplier rage in Serbia provided by Actility and theft of copper telecom cables that were for Telekom Srbija for many years, Teri Engineering. installed underground in Serbia and was also on hand to provide front-line accessible via manholes. These thefts project management, integration and resulted in disruption to their network, maintenance support for the operation loss of client trust, loss of money and of this IoT network for Serbia. reputational damage. As a pioneer of new To increase the security of the Benefits The benefits for Telekom Srbija are quite clear: no more theft equates toa minimized threat to network outages, no further damage to reputation and no

Benefits further loss of client loyalty or money.

• The success of the trial and subsequent project also revealed the potential for other underground or outdoor purposes • Real-time movement tracking • Fast reaction by security agencies • A large amount of data is now available for future analysis • Three groups of thieves were successfully arrested • User friendly app and dashboard • Collaboration with security forces might encourage wider acceptance/implementation

Our unique position, being an experienced system integrator in both industrial automation and ICT sectors, proved to be important success factors in the trial and implementation phase of Telekom Srbija’s LoRaWAN project Mr Dejan Bogosavljevic, CTO, TERI Engineering

Results - Lessons learned The basis for Smart City solutions

There are a lot of potential possibilities for other underground purposes as well as for other outdoor use

A large number of data Three groups of thieves already collected were successfully for future analysis arrested in three months

New business opportunities oT LoRaWAN Plenty of misuse data can be analyzed stopped in a three to discover other uses month period

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