TM Forum Live! is indeed one of the most awaited annual events as it offers the opportunity to connect and network with others from across digital ecosystems in a productive and knowledge churning environment. The event not only offers the opportunity to learn how to implement and profit from innovations, accelerate R&D and join collaborative projects but the chance to discover the latest technologies, which is the overall core of the growing digital ecosystem.

The primary goals of this pitch are to spread awareness about data interoperabilitye.g. harmonized data models with a common language, to convey the proposal fromFIWARE around the Internet of Things and demonstrate that ´Smart´ is not a term only compatible with cities, but to showcase that it has a lot potential also in other sectors.

The first day of the event included a speech from Juanjo Hierro, Coordinator & Chief Architect of FIWARE, about how FIWARE & OASC keep advancing Smart Cities. The closing session consisted of a panel focusing on API´s and Open Data, and how they are helping businesses to empower themselves and create smart city environments.

The third day will consist of a Smart City workshop, based on the foundation built by the FIWARE and TM Forum partnership. This workshop aims to underline the challenges that a Smart City will be confrontingand the right decisions that it should be making, in order to seize opportunities that its digital transformation would bring.

At the FIWARE stand, data will be the main focus. The principal objectives are to demonstrate new ways of sharing and using data. Problems can very easily arise when the same company has to share data and, what FIWARE does, is provide an open set of API´s and software components that allow any enterprise to build a platform which is already standard-compliant. Here, FIWARE is acting as a content provider, where many services can then access this data.

Visit us at stand 228 of TM Forum Live! –near the entrance to the Athena Auditorium– and discover three of the most recent outcomes achieved by FIWARE, not only as an Open Source platform, but also as an active Community eager to collaborate and join other partners and initiatives to pursue innovation around our cities.
 

• HERE Maps demo shows a smart car navigator that demonstrates how car navigation can be enriched by means of real time context data coming from smart cities. Through FIWARE standards and data models, this app integrates real-time context data coming from various cities.

  Car navigation systems based only in static could be helpful, but are not really smart and are limited to what was already on the road. HERE overcomes that drawback by showing what’s actually there at any given moment: for instance, environmental data is offered to drivers so that they are aware of factors which might influence their driving behavior; also, a driver can be notified of continuously changing locations, such as parking spaces that match their needs. The app offers drivers a marketplace where extra datasets are provided, where drivers can purchase them to enhance a varied and advanced application. Through a single marketplace, data from diverse origins –different sources within a single city or even data from different cities– might be provided.

  This application uses TM Forum APIs, FIWARE NGSI and Business Framework and has been developed in collaboration with Ubiwhere –the company that has turned Porto in one of the most advanced smart cities–. HERE demo at TM Forum Live! uses datasets from the cities of Santander, Seville, Porto and Antwerp and is a vivid example of the driven by implementation approach, one of the key mechanisms of the OASC initiative, where cities and companies join forces in the successful and cost effective development of the new digital services that best suit the needs of the citizens.

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