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TalkyCar: Encouraging safer and more efficient driving
Each day that passes us by, a new technology is being developed without us even being aware of it. The rapid pace of technological advancement has increased dramatically over recent years, so what is there really stopping it from progressing?...
Building Opportunities Upon a Free Material? Open Data & FIWARE as the Foundation for New Business
When Miguel García, from FINODEX, presented the accelerator´s first open call months ago, he linked recent past, present and future. There was a previous stage in the deployment of open data pools, when most of them were shared and...
Coachademy: App for Corporate Wellness
#MyFIWAREStory Just a few days ago, the Dutch Freelance Barometer (ZZP Barometer) published a report showing that 68% of freelancers suffer from too much stress. The problem is as serious among ‘regular employees’ as well: 22% of European...
#myFIWAREstory – OASC: a year enhancing change in our cities
“What does a smart city need?” –the last Connected Smart Cities Conference addressed the debate around the questions that are commonplace for the relevant actors around innovation in the smart urban environments. By...
FIWARE contribution to OpenStack
FIWARE has contributed to the OpenStack community by including functionality to the Murano Application catalogue Project. Additionally, the contribution from Telefónica I+D besides to the contribution from Hewlett-Packard gave the...
Ecogriddy & Cortex: Solid and Easy to Use Industrial Energy Analytics
My name is Luca Silvestri. I’m a civil engineer and when I founded Ecogriddy, back in 2013, the construction market was nearly dead and on a rampant economic downturn. To me that was the perfect moment to innovate: with a lot of free...
Agricolus: Making precision farming easier
In 2014, a disaster struck Europe, mainly affecting the region of Umbria in Italy. The olive pest fly caused the loss of up to 90% of the harvest from olive trees and the region was completely unprepared. Many people ask ´Could the crisis...
FIWARE and NGSIv2: towards harmonized APIs and data models for real-time context data
FIWARE is enabling a new generation of smarter applications which exploit large scale, real-time ‘context information’. Particularly, the NGSI version 2 API is aimed at making developer’s life easier, by providing simpler but powerful RESTful...
FIWARE at the GCTC Tech Jam –strengthening cooperation with the USA
After the signature of the partnership between FIWARE and GCTC, the Global City Teams Challenge promoted by NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technologies, it is now time to join GCTC teams and expand FIWARE-based solutions...