FIWARE paves the way to innovation and helps to materialize a vision about Smart Cities that goes beyond just carrying out a more efficient management of city services: a vision where cities will transform into ICT enablers, supporting creation of innovative applications that will impact economic growth and well-being. This presentation elaborates on the vision of Smart Cities based on FIWARE and how the FIWARE ecosystem may help to develop standard data models for smart cities based on a "driven by implementation" approach. The adoption of some of the FIWARE NGSI standard is actually one of the principles adopted in the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative.
Presentation describing how FIWARE helps to materialize a vision on Smart Cities that goes beyond a more efficient management of city services transforming cities into engines of growth through the support of an Economy of Data
FIWARE and the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativeJuanjo Hierro
FIWARE and the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative have become the basis for creating an open sustainable ecosystem around Smart Cities based on commonly adopted standards.
FIWARE - Driving the standards and helping cities to become enablers of the D...Juanjo Hierro
Materialising the Economy of Data requires providing a standard digital service infrastructure enabling different kind of organisations to publish, search and query for data in right time (contextual data). FIWARE brings a number of enablers for this purpose which cities around the world are increasingly adopting and are also being considered for building a first open source implementation of the Industrial Data Space architecture. By adopting FIWARE as de-facto standard and federating FIWARE Context Broker endpoints through which context information is published and consumed, Cities and Businesses, will be able to collaborate to create an open, distributed and neutral infrastructure enabling the Data Economy.
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One city is not a market. The vision of the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative is to create an open smart city market based on the needs of cities and communities. Cities need interoperability and standards to boost competitiveness by avoiding vendor lock-in, comparability to benchmark performance, and easy sharing of best practices. They also need solutions that can be implemented with respect for local practices and job creation.
The OASC initiative achieve this vision by advocating cities to adopt four simple mechanisms as de facto standards. The first mechanism is a driven-by-implementation attitude. The other three mechanisms are technical (an API, a set of data models, and an open data platform, described in the Background Document).
Since it was launched in March 2015, more and more cities have joined the initiative.
More info at: http://connectedsmartcities.eu/open-and-agile-smart-cities/
FIWARE is becoming the open source platform of choice for building IoT-enabled Smart Solutions covering a wide range of application domains such as Smart Cities, Smart Industry, Smart Agrifood, Smart Home.
This presentation provides an overall description of mission and vision of the FIWARE initiative, core FIWARE components and the value proposition in several application domains.
FIWARE brings standards for context information brokering and management, a cornerstone concept when building smart applications. It also brings open APIs for supporting innovative concepts like support of the Data Economy.
FIWARE: an open standard platform for smart citiesJuanjo Hierro
This presentation gives you an overview about how FIWARE can be used to materialize the concept of Smart Cities. FIWARE is not only focused in enabling a more efficient management of city services but it goes a step beyond as to help the transformation of cities into ICT platforms enabling the creation of innovative smart applications which ultimately will lead to local economy growth and the well-being of citizens.
Presentation describing how FIWARE helps to materialize a vision on Smart Cities that goes beyond a more efficient management of city services transforming cities into engines of growth through the support of an Economy of Data
FIWARE and the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiativeJuanjo Hierro
FIWARE and the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative have become the basis for creating an open sustainable ecosystem around Smart Cities based on commonly adopted standards.
FIWARE - Driving the standards and helping cities to become enablers of the D...Juanjo Hierro
Materialising the Economy of Data requires providing a standard digital service infrastructure enabling different kind of organisations to publish, search and query for data in right time (contextual data). FIWARE brings a number of enablers for this purpose which cities around the world are increasingly adopting and are also being considered for building a first open source implementation of the Industrial Data Space architecture. By adopting FIWARE as de-facto standard and federating FIWARE Context Broker endpoints through which context information is published and consumed, Cities and Businesses, will be able to collaborate to create an open, distributed and neutral infrastructure enabling the Data Economy.
The Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative: from vision to executionJuanjo Hierro
One city is not a market. The vision of the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative is to create an open smart city market based on the needs of cities and communities. Cities need interoperability and standards to boost competitiveness by avoiding vendor lock-in, comparability to benchmark performance, and easy sharing of best practices. They also need solutions that can be implemented with respect for local practices and job creation.
The OASC initiative achieve this vision by advocating cities to adopt four simple mechanisms as de facto standards. The first mechanism is a driven-by-implementation attitude. The other three mechanisms are technical (an API, a set of data models, and an open data platform, described in the Background Document).
Since it was launched in March 2015, more and more cities have joined the initiative.
More info at: http://connectedsmartcities.eu/open-and-agile-smart-cities/
FIWARE is becoming the open source platform of choice for building IoT-enabled Smart Solutions covering a wide range of application domains such as Smart Cities, Smart Industry, Smart Agrifood, Smart Home.
This presentation provides an overall description of mission and vision of the FIWARE initiative, core FIWARE components and the value proposition in several application domains.
FIWARE brings standards for context information brokering and management, a cornerstone concept when building smart applications. It also brings open APIs for supporting innovative concepts like support of the Data Economy.
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FIWARE: Transforming Smart Cities into engines of growthJuanjo Hierro
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FIWARE for Smart Cities: City of Ancona - Parking AdvisorFIWARE
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Slides from Pekka Koponen, Development Director, Forum Virium Helsinki; CitySDK. Presented at CSC 2016, session 1: OASC 101 – getting hands-on with API, data models
CONTENTS
1. Why OASC? Martin Brynskov, Aarhus University,
Chair OASC
2. OASC mechanisms, Juanjo Hierro, Telefonica, Chief
Architect of FIWARE, OASC task force.
3. City of Antwerp, Prof. Pieter Ballon, Director Living
Labs, iMinds, OASC task force
4. City of Tampere, Seppo Haataja, Director
InnovaPon programmes, OASC Director
5. Hostabee, Vincent DemorPer, Hostabee, FI-C3 A16
6. The Porto FIWARE Ecosystem, Rui Costa, Ubiwhere
7. Q&A
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FIWARE: Enabling innovative business models and the economy of data in citiesJuanjo Hierro
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FIWARE: Transforming Smart Cities into engines of growthJuanjo Hierro
FIWARE is becoming the open source de-facto standard platform for Smart Cities, helping them into their transformation to become more efficient cities and engines of growth, unleashing the potential of Right-time Open Data and paving the way to support the development of Open Innovation and the Data Economy.
Fiware: the pillar of the Future Internet (Overview)Juanjo Hierro
Overview of the FIWARE program (http://fiware.org) devoted to create an open and sustainable ecosystem around the FIWARE platform. FIWARE provides OpenStack-based Cloud Hosting capabilities plus a rich library of Generic Enablers exporting standard APIs that ease development of Future Internet applications. You can experiment for free with the FIWARE technologies on the FIWARE Lab (http://lab.fiware.org), the meeting point where innovation takes place ... and don't miss the opportunity to get part of the 80 Million euros granted by the EC to those startups and SMEs that will materialize their innovative ideas using FIWARE !!
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FIWARE for Smart Cities: City of Ancona - Parking AdvisorFIWARE
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FIWARE Global Summit - Moving Towards a Data Economy Business Model: A Real E...FIWARE
Presentation by Antonio Jara (CEO, HOP Ubiquitous S.L.) and Iris Cuevas (Head of Laboratory, HOP Ubiquitous S.L.)
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Slides from Pekka Koponen, Development Director, Forum Virium Helsinki; CitySDK. Presented at CSC 2016, session 1: OASC 101 – getting hands-on with API, data models
CONTENTS
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Chair OASC
2. OASC mechanisms, Juanjo Hierro, Telefonica, Chief
Architect of FIWARE, OASC task force.
3. City of Antwerp, Prof. Pieter Ballon, Director Living
Labs, iMinds, OASC task force
4. City of Tampere, Seppo Haataja, Director
InnovaPon programmes, OASC Director
5. Hostabee, Vincent DemorPer, Hostabee, FI-C3 A16
6. The Porto FIWARE Ecosystem, Rui Costa, Ubiwhere
7. Q&A
FIWARE for Smart Industry panel discussion, by Ulrich Ahle, CEO of the FIWARE Foundation.
Conference track. 1st FIWARE Summit, Málagada, Dec. 13-15, 2016.
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www.fiware.org
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Corresponding webinar recording: https://youtu.be/7ZMUYEWD1gw
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Chapter: Fundamentals
Difficulty: 1
Audience: Anyone
Presenter: Juanjo Hierro (CTO, FIWARE Foundation)
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FiWARE: transforming smart cities into engines of growth
1. http://www.fiware.org
http://lab.fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter!
FIWARE: transforming Smart Cities into engines of growth
Juanjo Hierro
Telefonica I+D. FIWARE Coordinator and Chief Architect
juanjose.hierro@telefonica.com, @JuanjoHierro (twitter)
2. Cities are where daily life and businesses
actually happen …
1
Smart Cities are not simply about more efficient
municipality services but transforming Cities into
the ICT platform enabling economy growth and
improvement of the well-being through innovation
3. FIWARE Mission
Goal: capture opportunities derived from the new wave
of digitalization of life and businesses that is coming
Strategy: Build a sustainable innovation ecosystem
around open standards supporting development of
smart applications in multiple sectors
Pillars:
• FI-WARE : a generic, open standard platform which
serve the needs of developers in multiple domains
• FIWARE Lab : a meeting point where innovation happens
and data providers plus entrepreneurs can be engaged
• : a program that funds developers and
entrepreneurs, and ignites roll-out of the ecosystem
• FIWARE mundus : reach a global footprint, opening to
regions that share the same vision and ambition
• iHubs : provide local support to the
community
eHealth
tourism
Transport,
Mobility
and
Logistics
e-government
Smart
Energy
Grid
…
2
Driven by
implementation Sustainable
4. FIWARE PPP: main figures
3
9
Countries
122 = 85 + 37 M€
FIWARE budget
99 = 76 + 23 M€
FIWARE funding
80 + 20 M€
for startups/SMEs
1300
Startups/SMEs
21
Innovation
Hubs
6,5 M€
marketing
95/66 M€
budget/funding of
Vertical Use Cases
18 = 17 + 1
FIWARE Lab nodes
2010-2016
(FP7)
Statement
Program Budget
"Proposers are encouraged to use
FIWARE for some or all of their
platform developments, when relevant.
Projects aiming to develop specific
platforms, are encouraged to make
them interoperable with FIWARE.”
ICT 1876 MEuro
Greening the Economy 326 MEuro
Agrifood, marine, bio 410 MEuro
2016-2017
(Horizon 2020)
16+
Accelerators
24
partners
6. 5
Because it brings the right standards for
developing “Smart” apps/services
Because it allows your city to join forces
with others to build a sustainable market
Because it’s not just about technology
9. Being “Smart” requires first being “Aware”
Smart City Applications requires gathering and managing context
information, referring to values of attributes characterizing entities
relevant to the application
NGSI brings a simple yet powerful API enabling access to context
information
8
Application
NGSI standard API
Bus
• Location
• No. passengers
• Driver
• Licence plate
Citizen
• Name-Surname
• Birthday
• Preferences
• Location
• ToDo list
Shop
• Location
• Business name
• Franchise
• offerings
Context Information
10. City Services
Multiple system/apps can exploit context info
Systems dealing with management of city services or third-party apps
can both consume and submit context information
The overall city governance system can rely on context information
available (real-time and historic) to monitor and manage KPIs
9
Bus
• Location
• No. passengers
• Driver
• Licence plate
Citizen
• Name-Surname
• Birthday
• Preferences
• Location
• ToDo list
Shop
• Location
• Business name
• Franchise
• offerings
Context Information
City Governance System
City Services
Third-party AppsCity Services
11. Different sources of context need to be handled
Context info may come from many sources which may vary over time:
• Existing systems dealing with management of municipal services
• Sensor networks (Internet of Things)
• Third-party smart city apps
Source of info will be transparent to applications accessing context info
10
Street = “X”, traffic = high
What’s the current traffic in
street “X”? NGSI
Standard API
A sensor in a pedestrian street
The Public Bus Transport
Management system Citizen’s car app or
smartphone
Notify me the changes of
traffic in street “X”
12. Different sources of context need to be handled
Context info may come from many sources which may vary over time:
• Existing systems dealing with management of municipal services
• Sensor networks (Internet of Things)
• Third-party smart city apps
Source of info will be transparent to applications accessing context info
11
Place = “X”, temperature = 30º
What’s the current
temperature in place “X”?
A sensor in a pedestrian street
The Public Bus Transport
Management system Citizen’s
smartphone
It’s too hot!
Notify me the changes of
temperature in place “X”NGSI
Standard API
13. A non-intrusive approach is required
Capable to integrate with existing or future systems dealing with
management of municipal services without impact in their architectures
Info about attributes of one entity may come from different systems,
which work either as Context Producers or Context Providers
Applications rely on a single model adapting to systems of each city
12
Application/Service
Standard API
System A System B
attribute “location” attribute “driver”
Context Producer Context Provider
14. Connecting to the Internet of Things
Capturing data from, or Acting upon, IoT devices should be as easy
as to read/change the value of attributes linked to context entities
using a Context Broker
13
Context Broker
Standard APIStandard API
GET <Oauth token>
/V1/contextEntities/lamp1/attributes/presenceSensor
PUT <Oauth token>
/V1/contextEntities/lamp1/attributes/status
“light on”
Setting up the value of attribute
“status” to “light on” triggers
execution of a function in the IoT
device that switches the lamp on
Issuing a get operation on the
“presenceSensor” attribute
enables the application to get
info about presence of people
near the lamp
15. Integration with sensor networks
FIWARE NGSI is capable to deal with the wide variety of IoT protocols today
Rather than trying to solve the battle of standards at IoT level, it brings a
standard where no standard exists today: context information management
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FIWARE Context Broker
IoT
Agent-1
IoT
Agent-2
IoT
Agent-n
IoT Agent
Manager
create/monitor
FIWARE Backend IoT
Device Management
OMA NGSI API (northbound interface)
(southbound interfaces)
MQTTETSI M2M IETF CoAP
16. Open data publication
Once context information is gathered, a lot of useful
complementary FIWARE enablers can be used
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Advanced Web-based UI
(AR, 3D)
Data/Apps visualization
Big Data AnalysisComplex Event
Processing
Multimedia processing
IoT-enabled
Context Information
Management
21. Target Smart City platform
Smart city platform as
a Data/Knowledge Hub
Non-intrusive, open to
third parties
CKAN
Big Data
Context Broker
Accounting&Payment&Billing
IDM&Auth
Short-term
historic
data
BigData
Processing
Data
Quering/Action,
Publish/Subscr
Open Data
publishing
Real-time
processing
BI
ETL
RULES
DEFINITION
TOOL
OPERATIONAL
DASHBOARD
KPI GOVERNANCE OPEN DATA PORTALS
Service
orchestrator
Context
Adapters
CEP
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IoT Backend
Device Management
measures /
commands
IoT Broker & Config
Management
(from sensors to things)
IoT/Sens
or
Open Dataactuators
Media
streams
Real Time
Media
Stream
Processing
City
Services
GIS
Inventory
Specific Enablers
Generic Enablers
22. 21
Because it allows your city to join forces
with others to build a sustainable market
23. Why OASC? the chicken & egg dilema
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Cities &
Communities
Developers &
integrators
De facto standards
(platform)
24. The Open and Agile Smart Cities
(OASC) initiative
Common APIs FIWARE NGSI to start with
Standard Data Models CitySDK and more
Platform for Open Data/API publication
Driven by implementation approach
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More info:
http://connectedsmartcities.eu/open-and-agile-smart-cities/
25. Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative principles
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Open Platform:
FIWARE
Driven by
Implementation
(Fiware, Fiware Lab,
accelerator…)
City Model
(CitySDK)
Open Data
(CKAN)
Common API
(FIWARE NGSI)
26. Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative principles
25
Open Platform:
FIWARE
Driven by
Implementation
(Fiware, Fiware Lab,
accelerator…)
City Model
(CitySDK)
Open Data
(CKAN)
Common API
(FIWARE NGSI)
Adoption of a lightweight, open-license
standard API to gather, publish, query
and subscribe-to real-time context
information describing what’s going on
in the city, enabling portability
27. Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative principles
26
Open Platform:
FIWARE
Driven by
Implementation
(Fiware, Fiware Lab,
accelerator…)
City Model
(CitySDK)
Open Data
(CKAN)
Common API
(FIWARE NGSI)
Adoption of a flexible, easily-distributable
open data publication platform which any
organisation can set up at a low cost
28. Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative principles
27
Open Platform:
FIWARE
Driven by
Implementation
(Fiware, Fiware Lab,
accelerator…)
City Model
(CitySDK)
Open Data
(CKAN)
Common API
(FIWARE NGSI)
Adoption of a simple initial standard
data model required for effective
interoperability when exchanging
context information, also portability
29. Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative principles
28
Open Platform:
FIWARE
Driven by
Implementation
(Fiware, Fiware Lab,
accelerator…)
City Model
(CitySDK)
Open Data
(CKAN)
Common API
(FIWARE NGSI)
Adoption of a “driven by
implementation” approach
towards experimental
consolidation of initial and new
standard data models. The goal
is that communities and
developers can (1) co-create
their services based on basic
but commonly-defined data
models, (2) influence the
definition of new models by
implementing and
experimenting, and (3) help
“curate” existing data models.
30. Launch of the OASC initiative
1st wave of OASC cities* announced at CeBIT:
• Denmark: Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg
• Finland: Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Oulu, Tampere, Turku
• Spain: Valencia, Santander, Málaga, Sevilla
• Portugal: Porto, Lisbon, Fundão, Palmela, Penela and
Águeda
• Belgium: Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp
• Italy: Milan, Palermo and Lecce
• Brazil: Olinda (Recife), Anapólis (Goiás), Porto Alegre
(Rio Grande do Sul), Vitória (Espírito Santo), Colinas de
Tocantins (Tocantins) and Taquaritinga (São Paulo)
Background document describing the vision
Cities have to sign a Letter of Intent (LoI) where they:
• Endorse OASC principles
• Prove their capacity to implement the principles
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(*) Ordered by country and date of incorporation
34. How can standard Smart City data models easing
common solutions be defined? The problem
Existence of a single API (FIWARE NGSI) reduces costs
when porting Smart City apps from one city to another
Without standard data models, Smart City apps would
need to come with adapters that transform data made
available by the city so that it complies with the data
model handled by the app but that has proven to be easy
with FIWARE NGSI (overall if NGSI is at both ends)
Creation of standard Smart City data models would allow
to avoid performing this kind of adaptation and make
portability of Smart City apps across Smart City
platforms a pretty straightforward task
How creation of these standard Smart City data
models can be fostered?
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35. How can standard Smart City data models easing
common solutions be defined? The solution
A “design by committee” approach would not be
the best approach:
• Such kind of approach has proven to be wrong in many
other standardization efforts in the past
• Who grants that the defined model is suitable for what apps
need and developers want to have?
We need a “driven by implementation” approach:
• Identify real applications that solve a real problem and cities
would like to see running in their cities
• Check what data models they have been designed to work
with and take them as input
• Carry out a “data curation” process where input data models
converge into a single common model
You will end with a set of standard data models and
soon a portfolio of killer Smart City apps working!
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36. How are standard Smart City data models going
to be defined within the OASC initiative?
Leverage on existing work: CitySDK
Leverage on initiatives like the FIWARE Accelerator
programme to identify killer Smart City apps
• These applications can serve as basis for definition of new
Smart City data models
• Involvement in this process becomes also an incentive for
the entrepreneurs to join identified initiatives (“I want to
influence the standard so that my app can easily align with
it”, “I want to provide one of the first example applications”)
• There are 80 M€ for entrepreneurs in the FIWARE
Accelerator programme that can be put at work!
Cities would play a key role:
• Their data models will be contrasted/analyzed against those
coming from the apps and other cities
• They would get involved in the data curation process
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37. 36
OASC cities
App 1
App i
City 1
City 2
City 3
City k
City n
City 1
City 2
City 3
City n
Showcase 1
Showcase m
Transference to Market
FIWARE Accelerator Programme,
other programmes
Solutions coming from major
Solution providers
Standard information models
It’s time to execute!
43. FIWARE ecosystem of SMEs/startups in Europe
Currently total of 831 startups
and SMEs
Good geographical coverage
(except France)
60% < 5 years experience
(14% no experience at all!)
60% by small team (< 5 people)
63% bring a solution not
available in the market
45% close to market delivery
For 30% this is their “first job”
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45. Building a successful ecosystem
requires …
44
Creating a vibrant community of
active contributors who commit a
sustainable investment over time
Fully open source platform
OS community ready since
summer 2015
7430+ PMs devoted to
development activities in 5 years
(122/76 M€ of budget/funding)
Funding opportunities available
in several R&D programs during
2017-18 (e.g., Horizon 2020)
Each FIWARE component is
considered strategic in the
portfolio of contributing partner
Telefonica, Orange, Engineering
and AtoS join forces to push
common standards for Smart
Cities based on FIWARE platform
46. Building a successful ecosystem
requires …
45
engaging cities
31 cities from 7 different
countries launch the Open
and Agile Smart Cities
(OASC) initiative
31 cities from 7 countries launched
the Open and Agile Smart Cities
(OASC) initative commiting to adopt
common principles:
• Open APIs
• Standard Data Models
• Open Data/APIs publication platform
• Driven by implementation
Now, 89 cities from 19 countries
were announced as part of the 4th
wave in Puebla
2015
47. Building a successful ecosystem
requires …
46
Bringing incentives for
entrepreneurs and developers
80 M€ in grants to startups/SMEs
in the last 2 years (FIWARE
Acceleration Programme)
3100+ startups/SMEs applied to
1st Open Call of the FIWARE
Acceleration programme
20 M€ to support involvement of
16 accelerators across Europe
FIWARE Acceleration programme
now expanding beyond Europe
Opportunity for real showcases
with cities
1300 startups/SMEs to be funded
(~400 as result of 1st Open Call)
48. Building a successful ecosystem
requires …
47
Creating a meeting point where
demand connects to offering and
innovation takes place
FIWARE Lab environment with
3000+ Cores, 16+ TB RAM,
750+ TB HD
2600+ open datasets from cities
published and growing fast!
Multiple nodes across Europe
1st node in LATAM deployed
in Mexico. New nodes being
setup: Brazil and Chile
49. Building a successful ecosystem
requires …
48
Scale and go global while being
able to act local
21 Innovation Hubs in Europe
devoted to provide local support
First FIWARE Lab nodes
in Mexico and Brazil
1,4 M€ funding assigned to
FIWARE mundus activities
targeted to build links with US,
Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Japan,
Canada, Korea, BRIC countries …
50. FIWARE Mission
Goal: capture opportunities derived from the new wave
of digitalization of life and businesses that is coming
Strategy: Build a sustainable innovation ecosystem
around open standards supporting development of
smart applications in multiple sectors
Pillars:
• FI-WARE : a generic, open standard platform which
serve the needs of developers in multiple domains
• FIWARE Lab : a meeting point where innovation happens
and data providers plus entrepreneurs can be engaged
• : a program that funds developers and
entrepreneurs, and ignites roll-out of the ecosystem
• FIWARE mundus : reach a global footprint, opening to
regions that share the same vision and ambition
• iHubs : provide local support to the
community
eHealth
tourism
Transport,
Mobility
and
Logistics
e-government
Smart
Energy
Grid
…
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Driven by
implementation Sustainable