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🇪🇸 Palma

Real-Time Beach Occupancy App (Platges de Mallorca)

Palma's 2020 pandemic-era beach app — anonymous check-ins from visitors within 50 metres of a beach, cross-checked against lifeguard reports — was taken over by the Consell de Mallorca in June 2021, renamed Platges de Mallorca and expanded to cover every Mallorca beach with lifeguard service. It reports occupancy and bathing conditions; it does not use water-quality sensors.

Live 📅 since 2021

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👥 SocietyPublic spaceSafety & security
Scale🗺️ Regional

📖 Terms in this entry: 15-minute city · ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) · CBTC (communications-based train control)

Sources

↗ Consell de Mallorca — Platges de Mallorca (authority)Official page: live since June 2021, covers all Mallorca beaches with lifeguard service, data from the regional emergency department.
↗ ESmartCity — Palma beach app launch (press)2020 launch of the original Palma pilot, 'Platges Segures'.
↗ Destinos Inteligentes — Playas Seguras mechanism (trade)Confirms the mechanism is lifeguard reporting plus citizen app, sensors/wifi only as optional add-ons where infrastructure already exists — no water-quality monitoring described.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Real-Time Beach Occupancy App (Platges de Mallorca)” — Palma, Spain. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/balearic-mallorca-iot/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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