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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...
FIWARE Pamplona Roadshow: building future business & opportunity around Open Data
When thinking of innovation in not only our society but our economy too, it is important to remember that each day we rely more and more on technology. The ICT sector provides new, pioneering ways to become more efficient, mobile and able to...
FIWARE at the MWC 2016: championing technology, empowering the community
A great–if not the greatest- part of our daily actions, already involve the use of mobile technologies. Surrounded by sensors and context-aware devices connected to the Internet, we are able to use our smartphones to secure our houses,...
FIWARE Startups Showcase IoT, Agribusiness and Smart City Opportunities at MWC This Week
Startups using FIWARE to build the next generation of IoT-enabled smart applications and services are on showcase this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Insylo, Sensowave, Agricolus and HERE are all showcasing their solutions that...