Multiconnect, a smart city integrator based in Vila Nova de Famalicão in northern Portugal, runs Fleximodo parking sensors across four towns in the Braga district: Famalicão, Esposende, Barcelos and Guimarães. It is the technical delivery partner for B-Smart Famalicão, the municipality's digital programme, and runs its own CWAY analytics platform.
The fleet began in 2023 and grew to about 700 in-ground NB-IoT sensors on Vodafone's network, feeding data straight into CWAY. In 2026 Multiconnect added in-ground LoRaWAN sensors connected to Fleximodo's CityPortal backend, so it now runs both protocols from one supplier.
What was deployed
- IoT Parking Sensor Standard, in-ground, NB-IoT on Vodafone Portugal, about 700 units across four towns
- IoT Parking Sensor Standard, in-ground, LoRaWAN, added in 2026
- Multiconnect's CWAY platform for the NB-IoT fleet
- Fleximodo CityPortal backend and monitoring for the LoRaWAN sensors
- Dual detection on every unit: magnetometer plus radar, with automatic temperature compensation, IP68 and IK10
Why it matters for municipal parking
NB-IoT suits a rollout spread across several towns at once. Each sensor connects to the cellular network on installation, so there is no gateway network to plan across four municipalities. That let one small integrator equip a whole region on a single configuration, with every sensor reporting in the same format.
LoRaWAN becomes useful once gateways are in place for a given site. Running both lets the integrator choose per site rather than committing every town to one protocol. The detection hardware and accuracy (99.96%) stay the same whichever network a sensor uses, so the towns get consistent data.
For municipal teams, the result is bay-level occupancy across four town centres, in the integrator's own analytics or in CityPortal.
Related: Datarede in Ribeira Brava, another Portuguese deployment.