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How FIWARE is Supporting Agribusiness to Grow (I)
Agribusiness is one of the most vital domains where smart technologies needs to be urgently applied. The pressures are enormous and include: rising global populations requiring more food, increased extreme weather events from climate change...
Evolving Cosmos Global Instance: new storage cluster released
The arising of Cygnus as a tool able to build historic collections of context data fired the usage of a wide variety of storages, the Global Instance of Cosmos among them. Such a global instance was designed as a shared Hadoop cluster where both...
The Rule of Three at Connected Smart Cities Conference
They say that good things come in threes. New ideas are easier to understand when they are broken into three components. We are more likely to remember information when it is divided up into three categories. And organising things into threes...
From AlzhUp to Zebra: Telemedicine is Everywhere in 2016
At the end of the day, our most important asset is our health. And as city populations grow around the world, key resources that enable us to manage and protect our health become increasingly scarce. Already, doctor and nurse...
FIWARE Tour Guide Application now ready!
One of the aspects we have been improving during the past few months is the availability of tutorial materials for FIWARE developers. After releasing the FIWARE Tour Guide, now we are proud to announce that the FIWARE Tour Guide Application is...
FIWARE in 2015: A Year of Products, Partnerships and Platforms
As the sun sets on the 2015 year, we celebrate and give thanks to everyone who has contributed to making the FIWARE community what it is today. This year has been about building products, forging new partnerships and stabilizing our platform,...
Crossing The Digital Divide: Outbarriers Creates Apps for All
Outbarriers, FIWARE Smart Society Challenge Award winners in 2014, have now launched an app aimed at supporting blind and visually impaired travelers and residents explore a city. Lauded as a “TripAdvisor for the blind”, the first...
#MYFIWARESTORY: A SMART CITIES STORY
Cities are almost as old as society itself, their birth being surrounded by mysteries and legends such as the one of Romulus and Remus and the foundation of Rome. Since then, since the times of Roman urbanism, our urban environments have changed...
#myFIWAREstory: the story of AEInnova
The team of AEInnova was expecting to spend the 13th of November 2015 like the previous days, facing the challenges that any entrepreneurial initiative brings, especially in the R&D field. However, everything changed when they got to know...