TM Forum, the global industry association for digital business, is working with Fiware, an open cloud-based platform, for the creation and delivery of applications and services, to deliver the key building blocks for enabling and connecting Smart City ecosystems.
TM Forum is supporting Fiware NGSI Rest-based APIs for access to contextual information for cities. This enables more efficient management of municipal services in areas such as mobility, water, waste, energy and environmental management, and also paves the way for the development of smart applications by third parties.
In turn, TM Forum’s Ecosystem APIs, including Product Catalog, Product Ordering and Product Inventory, will be incorporated within the specifications and open source reference implementation of the Fiware Business Framework. This Framework enables the management and the monetisation of different kinds of digital assets involving multiple partners. TM Forum’s lightweight Rest-based APIs were crowdsourced from within TM Forum’s diverse membership over the past three years and leverage more than 25 years of TM Forum’s complex management systems expertise in billing, catalog management, service level agreements and policy. Fiware will launch the new Business Framework, powered by TM Forum’s Ecosystem APIs, at Mobile World Congress 2016.
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