Success story - Government of the Principality of Asturias
Portal for the centralisation of traffic images and visualisation of road occupancy in real time
Izertis has developed a portal that centralises all the information captured by traffic control cameras and sensors and provides real-time visualisation, enabling it to detect instances of congestion on the roads and send alerts to drivers
The project
Since 2024, the Government of the Principality of Asturias had been rolling out a connected mobility model across its territory, featuring sensors, cameras and the digitisation of roads in coastal areas and tunnels, integrated into the Digital Twin of the Territory of Asturias, a platform that brings together information from various sources to provide an up-to-date picture of mobility in the region.
The total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 put this infrastructure to the test. The Directorate-General for Traffic (DGT) classified the phenomenon as a ‘Major Traffic Disruption Event’, forecasting between 400,000 and 1.5 million additional journeys towards the total eclipse zone across Spain. Asturias, one of the regions covered by the special traffic measures, selected 16 beaches along its coastline in anticipation of high visitor numbers, and needed reliable, real-time information on the occupancy of their access points in order to anticipate instances of congestion.
Furthermore, the Directorate-General for Traffic needed to be able to access this information quickly so that it could issue warnings to drivers via its usual channels, such as variable message signs on motorways and national roads, before they reached the affected areas.
The challenges
Cameras and sensors scattered across the region
The need for a unified real-time view
Quick access to information for the DGT
To scale up rapidly in response to exceptional events
The solution
Izertis developed the portal that centralises all the information from the cameras and sensors deployed across the region, integrating it into the Digital Twin of the Asturias Region. The solution combines sensor data, including occupancy figures recorded by the cameras themselves, to provide an up-to-date, real-time picture of occupancy at access points, enabling the detection of overcrowding in any of the monitored areas.
The portal also allows the Directorate-General for Traffic to access this centralised information, so that the Directorate-General for Traffic can issue alerts to drivers via its usual channels.
The solution was rolled out on 12 August 2026 to coincide with the total solar eclipse, centralising access data for 16 beaches along the Asturian coast in anticipation of the high numbers of visitors expected for the event.
The result
Thanks to this portal, during the solar eclipse on 12 August, the Government of the Principality of Asturias had a real-time overview of visitor numbers at the access points to the 16 selected beaches – one of the first operational applications of the Digital Twin of the Territory of Asturias. The Directorate-General for Traffic gained access to this centralised information, which enabled it to detect instances of congestion and issue warnings to drivers via its usual channels, such as variable message signs, during one of the events classified as having the greatest impact on traffic.
The experiment also provided an opportunity to assess how the infrastructure responds when pressure on certain access points increases rapidly, laying the foundations for evaluating its application in future specialised systems for traffic management, emergency response, civil protection, spatial planning and tourism, beyond the specific context of the eclipse.
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