Mar 042015
But, why
was FIWARE there? In 4YFN, FIWARE was presenting its Accelerator
Programme once more, a programme that is about to open its second open
call and receive thousands of business proposals, as it already happened in the first open call. So far, 346 startups have been already selected
from all the 3,217 proposals that were first submitted. These startups
are already taking part in training sessions, workshops and, of course,
are getting into a new digital market.
In
FIWARE’s conferences and workshops, attendees can not only meet the
FIWARE Accelerator Programme (thanks to the presence of some of the
accelerators in our stand), but also learn how to manage context information at large scale (workshop by Fermín Galán), how to connect to the Internet of Things
(workshop by Carlos Ralli), how to solve IoT problems (conference by
Ville Mickelsson) or how to create rich WebRTC Multimedia Applications
with FIWARE and Kurento (workshop by Luis López). But, if there was a
conference that was worth attending, it definitely was the KeyNote
speech by Juanjo Hierro and Nacho de Pinedo. You hear them and you can
be sure that your app, if developed with FIWARE, will ROCK. They taught
us how to make our app become the next hit.
COMMON STANDARDS FOR SMART CITIES
Now
that the concept of “Smart City” is under (r)evolution, as it is not
just focused on providing more efficient services, but on transforming
cities into digital platforms for innovative citizen services, four leading companies announce their agreement to push common standards and join efforts to create a FIWARE Open Source Community. These are Telefonica, Orange, Engineering and Atos. “FIWARE does not just support a more efficient management of municipal services. It brings open standards enabling to transform cities into engines of growth”,
explains Marieta Rivero, Chief Deputy Commercial Officer at Telefonica.
“Using FIWARE, Smart Cities can deliver the platform, combining Open
Data and the APIs based on which new innovative applications can be
created”, she explained. The integration of Internet of Things, Cloud and Big Data technologies,
together with the support of Open Data policies, will create the
conditions for a new period of intense transformation of cities into
Smart Cities.
“Innovation for
Engineering is a key success factor continuously pursued from its birth
back in 1980 […] In this context, we see our strategic and full
involvement in FIWARE. It is a set of technologies allowing us to be leaders in the market of open solutions”,
states Paolo Pandozy, CEO of Engineering; while Patrice Slupowski,
Vice-President of Digital Innovation, Orange, says that “there is an incredible opportunity for European cities
to take advantage of open solutions and a wide community of developers,
to quickly bring digital services and innovations to their citizens”.
Our
motto? “Simple, Open, Free and standardized: enabling the new future
for Smart Cities services”. These combined efforts will surely lead us
into a new concept of cities, into new environments where we will be
able to live making the most of technology.
Apps and Services Ecosystem goes Open Source
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Nov 232012
We
are delighted to announce that two new reference implementations of
Fi-Ware Generic Enablers just went Open Source, available under the BSD
License. The Repository and Marketplace GE developed by SAP within the
Apps and Services Ecosystem chapter are from now on directly available
on github.
Marketplace and Repository in the Apps and Services Ecosystem Architecture Blueprint
The Repository
The Repository is a core enabler of the FI-Ware Business Framework. The repository provides a consistent uniform API to USDL service descriptions and associated media files for applications of the business framework. A service provider can use the Repository to publish the description of various aspects of the service according to a Unified Service Description Language (USDL).| Repository Reference Implementation by SAP: | https://github.com/service-business-framework/Repository-RI |
| Repository in the Fi-Ware Catalog: | http://catalogue.fi-ware.eu/enablers/repository-sap-ri |
The Marketplace
In general the marketplace is an instrument to facilitate commerce by bringing together vendors and buyers, or offers and demand, or producers and consumers. The core functionality of the Marketplace is to provide a uniform service interface to discover and match application and service offerings from providers and sources (e.g. published by different stores) with demand of consumers. This core functionality provides a basis for extended services depending on the domain and nature of the target markets.| Marketplace Reference Implementation by SAP: | https://github.com/service-business-framework/Marketplace-RI |
| Marketplace in the Fi-Ware Catalog: | http://catalogue.fi-ware.eu/enablers/marketplace-sap-ri |
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