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#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...
FIWARE in the CGTG Working Group to develop consensus on the Smart Citiy Architecture
This blogpost reviews some news and announces that took place during the last months of 2015 and the start of 2016, around the collaboration framework between NIST, the Global City Teams Challenge and FIWARE. FIWARE participates in the...
IoT & FIWARE along the revolution of Smart Digital Services
We live surrounded by smart technology. We can make “a robot” out of almost anything, and robots are also getting smarter. This is an omnipresence that may excite some as well as scare others. As humans, we have always tended to try...
URBI: The solution to car sharing problems everywhere!
Shared transportation is not so much of a new trend, but one constantly renewing and revitalising its resources and what is has to offer us. The demand for more economical alternatives surrounding communication in cities ascended since the...