Barcelona

Barcelona is one of the four bioregional pilots in PLANETAI, alongside Boston, Santiago de Chile, and Bali. Within the program's pilot stratification it is currently classified P0 — meaning the highest instrumented sensor density, the broadest data infrastructure, and the deepest integration with EU-replicable methodologies through the CENTRINNO outputs (Hub Toolkit, Cartography blueprint, Living Archive, Handbook, Blueprints).

The pilot is anchored on IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) and Fab Lab Barcelona, with Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) as the technical compute partner and Barcelona City Council / Open Data BCN as the municipal-data anchor. Open Data BCN has operated under an "open data by default" policy since 2010, which makes Barcelona one of the most data-mature municipalities in the network.

The pilot's distinctive role is methodology consolidation. CENTRINNO — the EU-funded Fab City Hub project Fab Lab Barcelona led — has already produced the operational substrate for hub-as-harvester deployment: Hub Toolkit, Cartography blueprint, Living Archive, Handbook, Blueprints. The PLANETAI months 1–6 work in Barcelona is to translate these outputs into a network-wide hub playbook that Boston, Santiago and Bali then adopt and adapt.

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Open Data BCN (opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat). 555+ datasets covering mobility, environment, demographics, economy, governance, urban fabric. CKAN-based, full bulk + REST API, "open data by default" municipal policy since 2010. Managed by the Municipal Data Office.

Metabolism of Cities Barcelona dashboard (data.metabolismofcities.org/dashboards/barcelona). 39 datasets, 20 academic publications, 48 maps. Includes OMAT (Online Material Flow Analysis Tool, open source) — direct usable Material Flow Analysis infrastructure for the H₀-T pre-registered hypothesis.

Generalitat de Catalunya — Dades Obertes (analisi.transparenciacatalunya.cat). Catalan regional open data portal. Includes per-capita waste statistics for all 947 Catalan municipalities (Estadístiques de residus municipals), Idescat IPC, Mercabarna figures, energy mix.

CENTRINNO Cartography. Knowledge-sharing digital ecosystem from the Poblenou pilot, transferable to other PLANETAI districts.

TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. EU procurement portal. Already in the PLANETAI awesome-fabcity-data list as the canonical H₀-A action-latency baseline for Barcelona.

These are the questions where partner input is most welcome — coverage checks, programme transitions, named-counterpart confirmations.

• Open Data BCN sub-annual cadence verification. Which specific waste, energy, and material-flow datasets are published at the cadence the H₀-T hypothesis needs (sub-annual, district-resolved)? The Open Data BCN catalogue is broad, but H₀-T has specific resolution requirements. Worth a focused conversation with the Municipal Data Office before kickoff.
• Smart Citizen Barcelona active-deployment density. The global Smart Citizen network is wide; the Barcelona-specific question is what live community-data density looks like at neighbourhood resolution today and what the operational re-engagement plan would be for the pilot duration. The Smart Citizen team at Fab Lab Barcelona is best-positioned to scope this jointly.
• MDDI Distributed Design Innovation programme transition. IAAC's distributed-design master is on its third edition cycle. What's the planned successor pipeline for Tier-1 Node host capacity in Barcelona post-MDDI — Fab Academy, Fabricademy, a new programme? Explicit naming useful before kickoff.
• CENTRINNO Hub Toolkit translation timeline. By when, and owned by whom, does the CENTRINNO substrate get translated into a network-wide PLANETAI hub playbook? This is the Barcelona-leads-the-method work, and Boston / Santiago / Bali are downstream.
• BSC HPC counterpart naming. Compute integration with BSC needs a named technical counterpart; institutional anchor exists, individual contact to confirm.

Drafted from the working-notes brief; partner pushback on any of these is the point of this page.

The Barcelona pilot is the methodology-consolidation anchor for the network. Three pivots:

First, adopt the existing operational substrate — CENTRINNO's Fab City Hub Toolkit + Metabolism of Cities OMAT + Smart Citizen 2.4 (LoRa/Meshtastic) — as the canonical PLANETAI hub stack. Months 1–6 of the pilot translate these outputs into a network-wide playbook the other three pilots adopt.

Second, anchor the data layer on Open Data BCN + Metabolism of Cities + Generalitat de Catalunya at the City and Region tiers, with sensor-campaign supplementation through Smart Citizen + Sensor.Community at neighbourhood scale. The strength of this stack is in its breadth (data-mature city, EU-replicable infrastructure); the open question is in cadence and density at the resolution the pre-registered hypotheses require.

Third, leverage BSC for federated training infrastructure and IAAC AAG for urban analytics + digital twin integration — making Barcelona the methodological hinge between PLANETAI's hub-side instrumentation and its model-side compute layer.

The pilot's success is "the playbook Barcelona writes is the playbook Boston, Santiago and Bali adopt and adapt." Land it through Guillem Camprodon (Smart Citizen + Fab Lab Barcelona) + Areti Markopoulou (IAAC AAG) + a named BSC HPC contact + a named Open Data BCN counterpart.