We are heading back to Barcelona! From 19 to 21 November 2019, FIWARE Foundation will join the Smart City Expo World Congress 2019 – the world’s largest meeting place for anything and everything Smart City-related. Schedule a meeting with us or simply visit our stand to discuss the potential of FIWARE for the Smart City sector over coffee and receive the lastest bold new ideas for city transformations and improvements from our co-exhibitors. Have we caught your attention, here is a little sneak peek of what awaits you at the event. Find us at Gran Via, Hall 2, Level 0, Street D, Stand 421.

Addix – ADDIX enables cities to become truly smart by building necessary digital infrastructure, such as fibre optic, directional radio, wifi, and LoRaWAN. They are telecommunications experts with many years of experience who facilitate data economy for Smart Cities by hosting and managing the cities’ data in our secure datacentre.

Atos – Atos combines deep technical knowledge and business expertise to deliver data solutions for the city. Smart Grid, mobility, smart buildings, sustainability, and many other data-driven solutions contribute efficiently to shaping a prosperous and innovative city for citizens, for businesses and for society at large.

Capelon – The reason Capelon does what it does is because they are firm believers in the notion that Smart Cities are better for the environment and for the well-being of people. With GreenStreet, the company empowers cities with connected streets and smart city services.

Connecting Europe Facility – The CEF Building Blocks offer basic capabilities that can be reused in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders and sectors, including smart cities. They are available to help anyone who wants to build great European digital services for the public good.

Engineering and Digital Enabler – Digital Enabler is the digital transformation ecosystem platform, powered by FIWARE, supporting the entire value chain of data, from the discovery to the analysis, harmonization and visualization. The Digital Enabler provides cities with a single point to find, access and gather all this data.

FIWARE Zone and EXTENDA – Thanks to the EXTENDA – the Trade Promotion Agency of Andalusia, the FIWARE Zone area showcases smart cities solutions with regards to citizens safety, parking management, light pollution, sustainable mobility, air quality, accessibility, traffic management, among others contemporary mobility-related issues.

HOPU – FIWARE Foundation Gold Member HOPU design innovative cities thanks to the deployment of Smart Points of Interaction, which allow to create a multi directional communication channel among citizens, visitors and cities, establishing co-creation, culture sharing and environmental control open tools.

Kommunal 4.0 – Kommunal 4.0 offers local authorities and cities, as well as science and business a common space to inform themselves about the current topics of digitization, to exchange ideas and to develop solutions together.

Martel and Orchestra Cities – Aims at building a collaborative space for shaping a sustainable and participatory future for our cities, where citizens can share data from their devices with other citizens, businesses can easily build services on top of APIs shared across different cities, and cities can benefit from data published by other cities to create analysis and forecast.

Naevatec and OpenVidu – Openvidu is an abstraction layer over Kurento that simplifies the management of Media Streams to be used as IoT-like data generators. ElasTests simplifies the testing of complex systems, such as FIWARE applications.

NEC – The NEC FIWARE Platform is a cloud-based IoT data linkage platform service that supports the concept of “data utilization” in Society 5.0 and SDGs. The Data Utilization across areas is possible by standardizing and collaborating with various data and sensors in the city or even between the partner cities.

NTELS – NTELS can connect urban infrastructures using their platform, collect and analyze data in real time by adopting the Internet of Everything (IoE) that makes things smarter and people more capable, and provide context-aware personalized smart services.

Smart World by FIWARE – The Smart World by FIWARE perfectly showcases how FIWARE is powering up Smart Cities with connected mobility, highlighting various domains and their interactions, with a clear focus on Smart City, Mobility, Industry, Agrifood, and Energy.

Snap4City – Snap4City is 100% open source, secure encrypted, scalable, modular and flexible. It can be used to set up Living Lab and smart city solutions satisfying a large range of requirements of city officers, citizens, and tourists to developers, companies and researchers.

WiseTown by TeamDev – WiseTown stands for Web Information Stream Enhancer Town, a concept that perfectly describes the main idea of the technological ecosystem: to collect information from different sources of data to: organize, plan and manage urban development, to improve the quality of life of citizens.

At this edition of SCEWC, FIWARE Foundation will deliver two sessions on Smart Cities and the digital transformation as a part of the event. On 19 November from 13:45-14:30, FIWARE Foundation CTO Juanjo Hierro will be discussing ‘IoT, City Platforms & Standards in Expo Area’ in the South District Agora. On the next day (20 November), from 14:50-15:10, FIWARE Foundation CEO Ulrich Ahle will be taking the stage in Congress Area – Governance & Finance Room. He will talk about ‘Fueling city’s growth strategies toward smart economies’ as part of the session on ‘Data-Strategies: Principles, Standards, Digital Rights and Data Ethics’.

Be sure to also join us for a special book launch on 20 November from 12:00 to 12:30 at the FIWARE Booth (421). The Future City iHub launches the English version of their Smart City book, to which FIWARE Foundation CEO, Ulrich Ahle, has contributed: “A smart city, this is how you do it – Connected, flexible and meaningful: make the real future city”. Jan-Willem Wesselink (Program Manager, Future City Foundation) will present the book. Ulrich Ahle will present the power and importance of the Context Broker for Smart Cities. Get a first sneak peek of the book right there and then.

Join us, meet our co-exhibitors, the Smart World by FIWARE (made entirely from Lego bricks) and discover the most innovative FIWARE-powered Smart City solutions during our 15-minute guided tours at the FIWARE booth at dedicated times throughout the three-day event, followed by 15-minute visits to other partner booths within walking distance.

Receive an additional insight into how FIWARE partners and members have created smart solutions around FIWARE. Discover how FIWARE is transforming cities across the globe to deliver more efficient services and boost growth with real-life use cases and demos. For more information about the tours, please click here.