A brief description of the FIWARE Ecosystem with an introduction to the FIWARE Foundation, FIWARE iHubs, FIWARE Community, FIWARE Generic Enablers, FIWARE Catalogue, and FIWARENGSI/NGSI-LD

1. Overview of the FIWARE ecosystem
Fernando López, Cloud & Platform Senior Expert
fernando.lopez@fiware.org
@flopezaguilar
FIWARE Foundation, e.V.

2. FIWARE Foundation
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THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
FIWARE supports local digital hubs to enrich their services, to build a
network of tech-enabling communities and to encourage the formation of
internet based businesses at a local level.
Play a fundamental role in growing the global community of developers,
companies and cities adopting and contributing to FIWARE.

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Smart Water
H2O
Coming soon

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The new Digital Life will gravitate around context data. Context
data which describes what is going on, where, when, why …

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What if ...
for accessing
context information?
a standard API
there were

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Open Standards: Why do you need this sort of thing?
Interoperability
No vendor lock-in

13. FIWARE in a nutshell
● REST done right
● Standard mapping of HTTP verbs and status codes
● JSON payloads plus some additional structure rules
● Registrations to augment context
● Publish/Subscribe mechanism for asynchronous
processing
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FIWARE is an open source initiative defining a universal set of standards
for context data management which facilitate the development of
smart solutions.

14. Publish/Subscribe pattern
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PubSub
Broker
Publishers
Subscribers
notifications
notifications
notifications

15. Entrepreneurs will benefit from the opportunities of a
larger market
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“We can invest on
development of
solutions we don’t
have to adapt for
each and every
customer”

16. Mapping of FIWARE GEs
Data/APIManagement
PublicationMonetization
Core Context Management
(Context Broker)
Context
Processing, Analysis, Visualization
Interface to
IoT, Robotics and third-party systems
Deploymenttools
Development of
Context-aware applications
(Orion, STH-Comet,
Cygnus, QuantumLeap,
Draco, Scorpio)
Connection to the
Internet of Things
(IDAS, OpenMTC)
Real-time
processing of
context events
(Perseo)
Authorization and
Access Control to APIs
(Keyrock, Wilma,
AuthZForce, APInf )
Publication and
Monetization of Context
Information
(CKAN extensions, Data/API
Biz Framework, IDRA)
Creation of
Application Dashboards
(Wirecloud)
Real-time
Processing of media
streams
(Kurento, OpenVidu)
Business Intelligence
(Knowage)
Connection to robots
(FIROS, Fast RTPS,Micro XRCE-DDS)
Big Data
Context Analysis
(Cosmos)
Cloud Edge
(FogFlow)
Documents exchange
(Domibus)

17. Mapping of FIWARE GEs
Data/APIManagement
PublicationMonetization
Core Context
Management
(Context Broker)
Context
Processing, Analysis,
Visualization
Interface to
IoT, Robotics and third-party
systems
Deploymenttools
Development of
Context-aware
applications
(Orion, STH-Comet,
Cygnus,
QuantumLeap,
Draco, Scorpio)
Connection to the
Internet of Things
(IDAS, OpenMTC)
Real-time
processing of
context events
(Perseo)
Authorization and
Access Control to APIs
(Keyrock, Wilma,
AuthZForce, APInf )
Publication and
Monetization of
Context Information
(CKAN extensions,
Data/API Biz
Framework, IDRA)
Creation of
Application Dashboards
(Wirecloud)
Real-time
Processing of media
streams
(Kurento, OpenVidu)
Business Intelligence
(Knowage)
Connection to robots
(FIROS, Fast RTPS,Micro XRCE-DDS)
Big Data
Context Analysis
(Cosmos)
Cloud Edge
(FogFlow)
Documents exchange
(Domibus)
https://www.fiware.org/developers/catalogue/

18. All is public
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https://github.com/fiware

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That’s all folks, but there’s more
https://fiware-tutorials.readthedocs.io

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That’s all folks, but there’s more
https://fiware-academy.readthedocs.io

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But we are not
creating just
technology ….
… but a sustainable
open innovation
ecosystem

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#Community
#Ecosystem

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https://marketplace.fiware.org

24. Thank you!
http://fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter
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