This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723088
D4.2 – Mapping FIWARE good practices and
critical success factors to the Mexican
Innovation Ecosystem
Grant Agreement number: 723088
Project acronym: FIWARE Mexico
Funding Scheme: Coordination and Support Action
Due date: 30/06/2017
Actual date: 10/07/2017
Document Author/s: Martel, INFOTEC, Telefonica
Version: 1.0
Dissemination level: PU
Status: Final
Copyright © FIWARE Mexico Consortium 2016 – 2018
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Document History
Version Date Comments Author
0.1 10/02/2017 First draft Monique Calisti, Martel
0.2 01/06/2017 Second draft Margherita Trestini, Martel
0.3 21/06/2017 Partners Integration Karen Nájera, INFOTEC;
Miguel Carrillo, Telefonica
0.4 25/06/2017 Internal review Margherita Trestini,
Monique Calisti, Martel
1.0 01/07/2017 Final version Margherita Trestini, Martel
1.0 9/07/2017 Comments to final version Yolanda Ursa, INMARK
1.0 10/07/2017 Final version edits Margherita Trestini,
Monique Calisti, Martel
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................. 8 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 9 1.1 Analysis Methodology ....................................................................................................... 9 1.2 Online Questionnaires ..................................................................................................... 10 1.3 Selection of European Success Stories .......................................................................... 10 1.4 Selection of Mexican Success Stories ............................................................................ 11 2 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS: E-HEALTH ............................................ 12 2.1 AlzhUp Project ................................................................................................................. 12
2.1.1 AlzhUp Project and FIWARE ......................................................... 12 2.1.2 AlzhUp Project’s results ............................................................... 12
2.2 HealthBail Project ............................................................................................................ 13 2.2.1 Healthbail Project and FIWARE ..................................................... 13 2.2.2 HealthBail Project’s results .......................................................... 14
2.3 Oviva Project ................................................................................................................... 14 2.3.1 Oviva Project and FIWARE ........................................................... 15 2.3.2 Oviva Project’s results ................................................................ 15
2.4 Zebra Academy Project ................................................................................................... 15 2.4.1 Zebra Academy and FIWARE ....................................................... 16 2.4.2 Zebra Academy Project’s results .................................................. 16
2.5 Harmonic Project ............................................................................................................. 17 2.5.1 Harmonic Project and FIWARE ..................................................... 17 2.5.2 Harmonic Project’s results ........................................................... 17
2.6 MYSPHERA Project ........................................................................................................ 18 2.6.1 MYSPHERA and FIWARE .............................................................. 18 2.6.2 MYSPHERA Project’s results ......................................................... 19
2.7 UMANICK Project ............................................................................................................ 21 2.7.1 UMANICK and FIWARE ................................................................ 21 2.7.2 UMANICK Project’s results ........................................................... 22
2.8 NeuroAtHome Project ..................................................................................................... 23 2.8.1 NeuroAtHome and FIWARE .......................................................... 23 2.8.2 NeuroAtHome Project’s results ..................................................... 23
3 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS: SMART CITIES/SECURITY .................. 24 3.1 Torino Wireless Project ................................................................................................... 24
3.1.1 Torino Wireless Project and FIWARE ............................................. 24 3.1.2 Torino Wireless Project’s results ................................................... 25
3.2 Eindhoven Living Labs, Stratumseind 2.0 lab Project ..................................................... 25 3.2.1 Eindhoven Living Labs, Stratumseind 2.0 Lab and FIWARE .............. 26 3.2.2 Eindhoven Living Labs, Stratumseind 2.0 Lab Project results ........... 26
3.3 SmartAppCity Project ...................................................................................................... 26 3.3.1 SmartAppCity Project and FIWARE ............................................... 27 3.3.2 SmartAppCity Project results ....................................................... 27
3.4 Smart Cities Project ......................................................................................................... 28 3.4.1 Smart Cities Project and FIWARE ................................................. 28 3.4.2 Smart Cities Project’s results ....................................................... 28
3.5 Smart Cities Lab India Project ......................................................................................... 28 3.5.1 Smart Cities Lab India Project and FIWARE ................................... 29 3.5.2 Smart Cities Lab India Project results ........................................... 29
3.6 Everimpact Project .......................................................................................................... 29 3.6.1 Everimpact and FIWARE .............................................................. 30 3.6.2 Everimpact Project’s results ......................................................... 31
3.7 MVMANT Project ............................................................................................................. 31 3.7.1 MVMANT and FIWARE ................................................................. 32
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3.7.2 MVMANT Project results .............................................................. 32 3.8 Valencia VLCi (Valencia Ciudad Inteligente) .................................................................. 32
3.8.1 Valencia VLCi Project and FIWARE ................................................ 33 3.8.2 Valencia VLCi Project Results ....................................................... 33
3.9 Smart Santander ............................................................................................................. 33 3.9.1 Smart Santander Project and FIWARE ........................................... 35 3.9.2 Smart Santander Project Results .................................................. 35
4 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS: TRANSPORT ........................................ 36 4.1 Connect Robotics Project ................................................................................................ 36
4.1.1 Connect Robotics Project and FIWARE ........................................... 36 4.1.2 Connect Robotics Project Results .................................................. 37
4.2 QRoutes Project .............................................................................................................. 37 4.2.1 QRoutes Project Results .............................................................. 38
4.3 Fargo Project ................................................................................................................... 38 4.3.1 Fargo Project and FIWARE ........................................................... 39 4.3.2 Fargo Project Results .................................................................. 39
4.4 OpenMove Project ........................................................................................................... 40 4.4.1 OpenMove Project and FIWARE .................................................... 41 4.4.2 OpenMove Project Results ........................................................... 41
4.5 FLOUD Project ................................................................................................................ 41 4.5.1 FLOUD Project and FIWARE ......................................................... 42 4.5.2 FLOUD Project Results ................................................................ 42
4.6 Scuter Project .................................................................................................................. 42 4.6.1 Scuter Project and FIWARE .......................................................... 43 4.6.2 Scuter Project Results ................................................................. 43
4.7 Kiunsys Project ................................................................................................................ 43 4.7.1 Kiunsys Project and FIWARE ........................................................ 44 4.7.2 Kiunsys Project Results ............................................................... 45
5 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS: ENERGY ............................................... 46 5.1 OEEX Project .................................................................................................................. 46
5.1.1 OEEX Project and FIWARE ........................................................... 46 5.1.2 OEEX Project Results .................................................................. 46
5.2 AugWind Project .............................................................................................................. 47 5.2.1 AugWind Project Results ............................................................. 47
5.3 Beeta Project ................................................................................................................... 48 5.3.1 Tera Project and FIWARE ............................................................ 48 5.3.2 Tera Project Results .................................................................... 49
5.4 FINESCE Project ............................................................................................................. 49 5.4.1 FINESCE Project and FIWARE ...................................................... 49 5.4.2 FINESCE Project Results .............................................................. 50
5.5 BD4BS Project ................................................................................................................. 50 5.5.1 BD4BS Project and FIWARE ......................................................... 50 5.5.2 BD4BS Project Results ................................................................ 51
5.6 Trafisense Project............................................................................................................ 51 5.6.1 Trafisense Project and FIWARE .................................................... 51 5.6.2 Trafisense Project Results ............................................................ 51
5.7 SolarBrush Project........................................................................................................... 52 5.7.1 SolarBrush Project and FIWARE ................................................... 52 5.7.2 SolarBrush Project Results ........................................................... 52
6 MEXICAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS..................................................................... 53 6.1 Mexico FIWARE Lab Node ............................................................................................. 53 6.2 FIWARE Training in Mexico ............................................................................................ 53 6.3 Environmental initiatives with FIWARE ........................................................................... 54 6.4 SmartSDK Project Initiatives ........................................................................................... 54
6.4.1 Healthcare initiative with FIWARE ................................................. 54 6.4.2 Smart City initiative with FIWARE ................................................. 54 6.4.3 Security Initiative with FIWARE .................................................... 55
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7 FIWARE PLATFORM BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES ................................................... 56 7.1 FIWARE Benefits ............................................................................................................. 56 7.2 FIWARE Challenges........................................................................................................ 56 7.3 Technical Challenges ...................................................................................................... 56 7.4 Organizational Challenges .............................................................................................. 57 8 PROJECTS’ SUCCESS FACTORS AND GOOD PRACTICES ........................................ 58 8.1 Projects’ success factors ................................................................................................. 58
8.1.1 Projects’ success factors within the FIWARE program selection ........ 58 8.1.2 Projects’ key factors for successful outputs .................................... 58
8.2 Good Practices ................................................................................................................ 60 9 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS ................................................................................. 61 ANNEX 1 ..................................................................................................................................... 62 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 64
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LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: AlzhUp logo ................................................................................................ 12 Figure 2: HealthBail logo ............................................................................................ 13 Figure 3: Oviva logo .................................................................................................. 15 Figure 4: Zebra Academy logo .................................................................................... 16 Figure 5: Harmonic Academy logo ............................................................................... 17 Figure 6: MYSPHERA logo .......................................................................................... 18 Figure 7: UMANICK logo ............................................................................................ 21 Figure 8: NeuroAtHome logo ...................................................................................... 23 Figure 9: Torino Wireless logo .................................................................................... 24 Figure 10: The Control Centre of the Eindhoven Stratumseind 2.0 Lab ............................. 26 Figure 11: The SmartAppCity logo ............................................................................... 27 Figure 12: The Smart Cities logo ................................................................................. 28 Figure 13: The Smart Cities Lab India logo ................................................................... 29 Figure 14: Everimpact logo ........................................................................................ 30 Figure 15: MVMANT logo ............................................................................................ 31 Figure 16: Valencia VLCi logo ..................................................................................... 32 Figure 17: Smart Santander logo (original project) ....................................................... 34 Figure 18: Connect Robotics logo ................................................................................ 36 Figure 19: QRoutes logo ............................................................................................ 37 Figure 20: Galilea Soluciones logo ............................................................................... 38 Figure 21: OpenMove logo ......................................................................................... 40 Figure 22: FLOUD logo .............................................................................................. 42 Figure 23: Scuter logo ............................................................................................... 43 Figure 24: Kiunsys logo ............................................................................................. 44 Figure 25: OEEX logo ................................................................................................ 46 Figure 26: AugWind logo ............................................................................................ 47 Figure 27: Beeta logo ................................................................................................ 48 Figure 28: FINESCE logo ............................................................................................ 49 Figure 29: BD4BS logo .............................................................................................. 50 Figure 30: Trafisense logo .......................................................................................... 51 Figure 31: SolarBrush logo ......................................................................................... 52 Figure 32: Reasons for choosing the FIWARE Program ................................................... 56
LIST OF TABLES Table 1 European Success Stories Analysed ................................................................. 10 Table 2 Mexican Success Stories Analysed ................................................................... 11 Table 3 AlzhUp Key information .................................................................................. 12 Table 4 HealthBail Key Information ............................................................................. 13 Table 5 Oviva Key Information ................................................................................... 15 Table 6 Zebra Academy Key Information...................................................................... 16 Table 7 Harmonic Academy Key information ................................................................. 17 Table 8 MYSPHERA Key Information ............................................................................ 18 Table 9 UMANICK Key information .............................................................................. 21 Table 10 NeuroAtHome Key Information ...................................................................... 23 Table 11 Torino Wireless Key Information .................................................................... 24 Table 12 Eindhoven Stratumseind 2.0 lab Key Information ............................................. 26 Table 13 The SmartAppCity Key Information ................................................................ 27 Table 14 The Smart Cities Key Information .................................................................. 28 Table 15 The Smart Cities Lab India Information........................................................... 29 Table 16 Everimpact Information ................................................................................ 30
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Table 17 MVMANT Information .................................................................................... 32 Table 18 Valencia VLCi Information ............................................................................. 32 Table 19 Smart Santander Key Information .................................................................. 34 Table 20 Connect Robotics Key Information.................................................................. 36 Table 21 Connect Robotics Key Information.................................................................. 38 Table 22 Fargo project Key Information ....................................................................... 39 Table 23 OpenMove project Key Information ................................................................ 41 Table 24 FLOUD project Key Information ..................................................................... 42 Table 25 Scuter project Key Information ...................................................................... 43 Table 26 Kiunsys project Key Information .................................................................... 44 Table 27 OEEX project Key Information ....................................................................... 46 Table 28 AugWind Project Key Information ................................................................... 47 Table 29 Beeta project Key Information ....................................................................... 48 Table 30 FINESCE project Key Information ................................................................... 49 Table 31 BD4BS project Key Information ..................................................................... 50 Table 32 Trafisense project Key Information ................................................................. 51 Table 33 SolarBrush project Key Information ................................................................ 52
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY To create confidence and facilitate understanding and uptake of the FIWARE
concepts, tools and overall offering, an important aspect is the capability to
properly capture and “market” success stories. In this perspective, WP4 efforts
focused on capturing and analysing the most prominent and relevant good practice
cases both in Europe and in Mexico.
The ambition is understanding what are the critical success factors, as lessons
learned from the analysed success stories, in order to indicate to innovators in
Mexico (but also globally) how to follow up on effective uptake of FIWARE as key
component of their innovation development life-cycle.
This exercise to analyse and document some of the success stories has taken into
account 1) the diversity of the boundary conditions in Europe and Mexico (in terms
of technology maturity, industrial support and funding), 2) the different degree of
maturity of a FIWARE community in the two contexts, and 3) the limited
information available in Mexico.
The analysis conducted so far and the outcomes that this analysis has led to are
valuable elements to help better understanding what are the critical factors to be
accounted for the FIWARE business and innovation model to be successfully
exported and up-taken in Mexico, or in other countries with similar boundary
conditions.
The first part of this document presents the objectives of the FIWARE Success
Stories analysis run in Europe and in Mexico. It details the methodology followed,
presenting the online and offline methods used to collect the key parameters for
each case history presented. The online survey and research is presented followed
by the one-to-one interviews run with some of the projects’ stakeholders.
Then a detailed description of each single project that was analysed is proposed,
including for each project’s their business model, target, FIWARE technology used,
successful outputs, key knowledge and success factors.
The final part of the document presents the most interesting key-findings of the
analysis from a broader perspective, including the success factors, the FIWARE key
benefits and major challenges the projects faced along their development.
The good practices will serve to stimulate the further uptake of FIWARE both in
Mexico and Europe and help guiding FIWARE developments’ efforts on the basis of
what has been learned so far.
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1 INTRODUCTION
To create confidence and facilitate understanding and uptake of the FIWARE
concepts, tools and overall offering, an important aspect is the capability to
properly capture and “market” success stories and lessons learned so far both in
Europe and Mexico.
In this perspective, WP4 efforts focused on capturing and analysing the most
prominent and relevant good practice cases both in Europe and in Mexico. The
ambition is creating a better understanding of what are the critical success factors,
as well as risks and challenges to be accounted for, in order to indicate to
innovators in Mexico (but also globally) how to follow up on effective uptake of
FIWARE as key component of their innovation development life-cycle.
FIWARE success stories in selected domains have been analyzed, with specific
attention to Smart Cities/Security, Transport, Health and Energy, which are the
vertical domains FIWARE Mexico is focusing on.
This has been a challenging task for several reasons: 1) the diversity of the
boundary conditions in Europe and Mexico, in terms of technology maturity,
industrial support and availability of funding, 2) the different degree of maturity of
a FIWARE community in the two regions, and 3) the limited information available to
analyse and document some of the success stories.
Nevertheless, several success stories that have been identified and analysed so far,
are of high relevance both to create a better understanding of how FIWARE can
boost innovation and to provide more confidence in the technology as a viable and
winning choice.
Moreover, some promising seeds of FIWARE Mexican projects’ development were
identified which we aim to make more visible within the European context to foster
increased visibility and further development. This analysis intends to identify, in
close collaboration with the work carried within WP3, future relevant collaboration
areas between Europe and Mexico in the ICT domain.
1.1 Analysis Methodology
This work started from analysing relevant know-how and success stories that the
FIWARE community had already identified and published online.
This included the specific cases that are being collected and reported via the
FIWARE portal (see https://www.fiware.org/success_stories), the various stories as
reported via the #myFIWAREStory initiative (http://myfiwarestory.fiware.org/), the
various FIWARE champion cases promoted via the FIWARE VIP programme and the
information that is being collected and reported via the various FIWARE
communication channels and documents, including reports, blog items, and white
papers.
In order to extrapolate the critical success factors and more detailed information
regarding the usage of FIWARE components, we have submitted a questionnaire to
the FIWARE selected case histories. Furthermore, to include in the analysis of
success stories not yet reported, we have distributed an open and exhaustive
questionnaire to the FIWARE community, through the Mobilize platform, inviting the
projects to submit their case history.
For the most interesting success stories, the plan is to invite the projects’ leaders to
attend the Open FIWARE Camp in Europe to share their experience with their
Mexican counterparts.
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1.2 Online Questionnaires
Two questionnaires were elaborated on and distributed to:
• Success stories documented on FIWARE community channels (see
https://www.fiware.org/success_stories) were used to collect more detailed
inputs specifically on the success of parameters, key factors and relevant
know-how. An email with an invitation to answer the questionnaire online
was sent to all the projects initially mapped (20) and we received 5
completed questionnaires.
• A second questionnaire, which included more generic and framework
oriented questions, was published with the intent of collecting and
stimulating the participation of success stories not publicly documented yet,
but relevant to the FIWARE Mexico knowledge transfer. The invitation to
participate in the questionnaire was sent 5 times between 15 January and
May 2017 through the Mobilize platform, to the FIWARE Mundus Community
and it was publicized at the Open FIWARE Camp in Mexico. We collected 11
answers.
Refer to the Online questionnaire: http://bit.ly/2ro6EDr (See Annex 1 for the
complete questionnaire published online).
1.3 Selection of European Success Stories
The success stories were selected in four major categories: eHealth, Smart
Cities/Security, Energy, and Transport. The following criteria has been applied:
1. Diversity of the projects’ goals and partners involved (private-public
partnerships, private-private partnerships).
2. Diversity of country of origin and development (e.g. including multi-country
and/or not only focused on European countries) in order to provide diversity
of environment, challenges and teams involved.
3. Spontaneous participation to the survey online, giving voice to projects that
were not initially selected but provided interested input to the analysis.
Below is the list of the success stories analysed so far:
Table 1 European Success Stories Analysed
No Project Country
eHealth
1 AlzhUp Spain
2 HealthBail Greece
3 Oviva Switzerland-Germany
4 Zebra Academy Belgium
5 Harmonic Netherland
6 MYSPHERA Spain
7 UMANICK Spain
8 NeuroAtHome Spain
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9 Torino Wireless Italy
10 Endhoven Netherland
11 Smartappcity Spain
12 Smart Cities Spain
13 Smart Cities Lab Germany-India
14 Everimpact France
15 Mvmant Germany
16 Valencia VLCi Spain
17 Smart Santander Spain
Transport
18 Connect Robotics Portugal
19 Qroutes UK
20 Fargo Spain
21 SmartParking Belgium
22 Floud Italy
23 Scuter Italy
24 Kyunsis Italy
Energy
25 Oeex Germany
26 Augwind Israel
27 Beeta Italy
28 Finesce Multi-country
20 BD4BS Spain
30 Trafisense Greece
31 SolarBrush United Kingdom
1.4 Selection of Mexican Success Stories
Table 2 Mexican Success Stories Analysed
No Segment Project Country
1 Institutional The Mexican FIWARE Lab node Mexico
2 Institutional FIWARE training in México Mexico
3 Smart Cities Environmental monitoring with FIWARE
Mexico City, Mexico
4 Smart cities, Health Care and Security Initiatives
SmartSDK Mexico, Europe
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2 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS: E-
HEALTH
2.1 AlzhUp Project
AlzhUp aims to develop a unique digital social-health service platform for treating
dementia and providing assistance in active ageing. Currently 98% of products on
the market are pharmacological in nature. AlzhUp innovation is related to the focus
on non-pharmacological therapies to assist in delaying cognitive impairment.
The AlzhUp platform has three main pillars. It is an aggregator of scientifically
validated non-pharmacological therapies, (not brain games), the first one being the
Integral Cognitive Actuation Program, developed along with CRE Salamanca Spain
& Castilla y Leon Neuroscience Institute. The Personal Memory Bank supports
customisation of therapies for each patient, by cataloguing memories using a
scientific mnemonic algorithm that simulates the real behaviour of the human
brain. And, through Gamification, the active participation of the whole family and
environment is promoted, providing information to families to support them in
dealing with this situation.
Figure 1: AlzhUp logo
Table 3 AlzhUp Key information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Valencia, Spain and Miami, USA
Reta Al Alzheimer S.L. www.alzhup.com
2015
2.1.1 AlzhUp Project and FIWARE
AlzhUp leverages on a range of technologies including FIWARE Generic Enablers
(KeyRock for security and Object Storage GE to store the personal bank of
memories). Within the FIWare program, Reta al Alzheimer developed a separate
product, AlzhUp Tools, including a pre-diagnosis tool and a proprietary Global
Deterioration Scale (GDS) Test to monitor the evolution of the disease for patients
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. This product is available on iOS and Android.
2.1.2 AlzhUp Project’s results
Between October 2015 and June 2016, a closed beta testing was undertaken with
over 300 users in Spain and in the US. AlzhUp engaged with six different
associations focused on Alzheimer’s disease and two insurance companies in Spain
to source beta users. The beta focused on supporting users with different stages of
the condition (mild, moderate and severe) and verifying its adaptation to new
devices while testing the service. This also assisted in identifying various offerings
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for different user groups such as families, therapists and specialised centres. Users
can choose to use the standard or professional version of the AlzhUp application
based on their requirements.
An open beta commenced in June and ran up to October 2016 to allow users to
engage with the services and tools.
The release of the first official version of AlzhUp for both B2C and B2B markets was
delivered in October 2016. When the clinical trials for official validation of the
service is on the market, the content strategy (availability on more devices and
aggregation 3rd party NFT) will be updated, and the business development through
Latin America and Asia will be accomplished in 2017.
2.2 HealthBail Project
HealthBail is an idea for the development of a platform that would enable adopters
of a healthy behaviour to seek advice from online sources in an efficient and timely
way. More specifically, the objectives of the HealthBail project are:
• Enable healthy behaviour adopters to share their symptoms and health care problems in an anonymous way.
• Build a single point of reference for the professionals in the health care community to interact with each other, share views, comments and scientific results and provide evidence-based recommendations, which receive unanimity by the other experts in the field.
• Enhance the access of the general public and the healthy behaviour adopters to the professionals’ knowledge about health self-monitoring practices and early warning situations.
Figure 2: HealthBail logo
Table 4 HealthBail Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Athens,
Greece
ATC
Innovation Lab
http://www.ilab.atc.gr/projects/healthbail 2015
2.2.1 Healthbail Project and FIWARE
FIWARE enabled HealthBail development and deployment as a sustainable
healthcare solution. Through the analysis of the FIWARE offered generic enabling
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technologies, the HealthBail team managed to concentrate effort on specific
healthcare implementation issues. HealthBail has already worked on the provided
instances of the FIWARE generic and specific enablers that are combined together
with the project oriented implementation. Specifically, FIWARE complements
HealthBail in the following areas:
• Authentication and Authorisation services: Through the combination of the
Identity Management – KeyRock GE, the Authorization PDP – AuthZForce GE
and the PEP Proxy – Wilma GE, HealthBail will be able to define specific
permissions and policies that will allow different access levels to the provided
functionalities from the medical experts, doctors and healthy behaviour
adopters.
• Service monitoring and event processing: HealthBail exploits generic
enablers, namely the CEP Proton, the Monitoring GE and the POI Data
Provider GE, to process the events raised from the analysis of the
professionals’ deliberation platform and serve the end users with concrete
responses.
• Virtualisation: The deployment environment of the HealthBail project is built
on top of Docker virtualisation technologies to allow providing HealthBail
components as containers.
• FIWARE Components: Identity Management - KeyRock, Authorization PDP -
AuthZForce, PEP Proxy - Wilma, Complex Event Processing (CEP), POI Proxy
SE - FIcontent project (Swagger), POI Data Provider, Monitoring GE -
Sextant, and Docker GE reference implementation (GitHub).
2.2.2 HealthBail Project’s results
Through the funding offered by the FI-ADOPT project, HealthBail managed to come
up with a minimum value proposition product, which is now available as a proof of
concept demonstration for commercial customization, and has been evaluated from
market representatives.
2.3 Oviva Project
Moving ahead from the traditional approach of nutritional counselling, Oviva equips
their users/patients with an application, which allows them to communicate with
the therapist. The app is used to log food photos, to track activity and monitor the
dietarian programme. This allows the therapists to provide faster and more specific
feedback between face-to-face sessions, which is proven to greatly improve
treatment outcomes. Oviva provides the users with a personal certified dietician to
help them improve and make healthy changes regarding their diet and lifestyle. A
personal coach provides tailored guidance and support based on custom needs,
answers questions on the basis of facts and advises accordingly. Oviva dieticians
provide evidence-based information including facts about nutrients, understanding
food labels, tailored recipes and behaviour modification techniques just to name a
few. The dietician can monitor the inputs provided by the user and provides
personalised feedback, guidance and daily support through a secure channel.
This approach greatly improves the traditional delivery of medical nutritional
therapy in order to tackle a range of eating-related diseases. Of course there are
many individual products and services that address different segments, e.g., for
weight loss or food intolerances, but none with the medical proficiency and breadth
of treatments provided by Oviva’s therapists.
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Figure 3: Oviva logo
Table 5 Oviva Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Switzerland Germany, UK
Dr. Kai Eberhardt, Manuel Baumann, Dr. Mark Jenkins
https://oviva.com/global/ 2016
2.3.1 Oviva Project and FIWARE
Oviva participated in the FIWARE program to take beta-stage technology to the
next level, by adding elements of the FIWARE toolset. The aim was to incorporate
technologies for reminders, expert systems and gamification allowing the
technology to be more versatile for the professional user and more engaging for the
client.
The FIWARE ecosystem provided a strong community facilitating support in the
case of issues or questions. The FICHe FIWARE program helped Ovica finance new
technology and their expansion.
Oviva leverages the “IoT Data Edge Consolidation” FIWARE generic enabler
(“Cepheus”). At its core is a CEP, a “Complex Event Processor”, which allows events
generated by a system to be processed. It allows Oviva to detect certain conditions
in a complex series of events and derive insights from them and then feed them
back to the therapists or directly to patients.
2.3.2 Oviva Project’s results
Oviva is now present in over 40 doctor’s practices in Switzerland, the UK and
Germany. Our partnerships with the British, German and Swiss Dietetic
Association’s highlight our long-term investment in evidence-based medicine.
2.4 Zebra Academy Project
Zebra Academy provides an integrated telemedicine device and service solution for
emergency stroke treatment including an autonomous portable device for use in
emergency vehicles and in hospitals, in which a remote access to the patient
through a web-based ICT platform is used. Looking to the future, Zebra Academy
wants to be recognized by patients, professional caregivers and policy makers as a
top-notch reliable partner to sustainably improve patient care through telemedicine
at acceptable costs. Telemedicine wants to change the way in which people work
and are naturally reluctant to do. Telemedicine impacts several stakeholders
making the adoption more difficult. Doctors are reluctant to use technology with
regards to media encryption and data privacy. No legal framework for
reimbursement is in place and healthcare legislation is country specific. The aim is
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to bring innovative telemedicine solutions to the market backed up by strong
research and user feedback for pre-, in- and post-hospital diagnose and follow-up of patients suffering from a disease.
Figure 4: Zebra Academy logo
Table 6 Zebra Academy Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Brussels, Belgium
VUB UZ Brussels
http://www.zebra-telemedicine.com
2015
2.4.1 Zebra Academy and FIWARE
FIWARE provided a broad portfolio of solutions that gave answers to specific
problems the Zebra Academy project faced. It supported the development of
unified and standard tools to store medical data. The main FIWARE module used by
Zebra Academy is the Specific Enabler (SE) Electronic Health Record (EHR). This is
a higher-level solution that builds on top of several general enablers (GE) and a
rest API that allows the storage of patient information. This solution fits perfectly in
our scheme in which an electronic patient record is generated from a very simple
and standard approach. EHR interacts at a higher level with the SE for security and
privacy that relays itself on the IdM GE KeyRock. The EHR also relays on the Object
Storage GE. The SE EHR allows already a very complex integration into the FIWARE
architecture making use of many enablers. Furthermore, it gives a solution to a
problem many start-ups working on the eHealth sector face: how to store data
simply in a safe and legally compliant manner. We also use GE Keyrock in our login
screen to validate users on the platform. These parties are then given the ability to
talk through our platform. The future interest of our team is to use FIWARE to be
able to federate users from 3rd party eHEALTH networks.
2.4.2 Zebra Academy Project’s results
A randomized trial on outcome and time savings related to the solution being
commercialized has recently ended. Where telemedicine was used, it showed a
reduction time of 20 minutes between call to emergency and imaging in the
hospital for the group of patients. This time gain was achieved without increasing
the risk of mortality for patients. Zebra Academy is currently actively engaging with
Belgian and European hospitals to sell its solution.
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2.5 Harmonic Project
The measurement method Inbiolab is based on is the measurement of muscle
tension, known as surface electromyogram (sEMG). Sensors in patches or a band
on the patient’s skin measure this EMG.
A competitive product measures the EMG using a probe inserted into the
oesophagus; this invasive method is stressful for patients, particularly premature
babies. Technically, measuring through the skin, at a greater distance from the
diaphragm, does pose a challenge. This is where Inbiolab’s expertise comes into
play: measuring a weak EMG signal, which is drowned out by the 1,000-times
stronger EMG activity of the nearby heart. It is a question of sophisticated signal
processing using advanced hardware (amplifiers) and smart software (algorithms).
The Harmonic project’s ultimate goal is to create technology that allows premature
babies to grow safely in the arms of their parents and give them and their parents a
positive start into a new world.
Figure 5: Harmonic Academy logo
Table 7 Harmonic Academy Key information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Netherland Jurryt Vellinga http://www.inbiolab.com https://www.demcon.nl/en/
2015
2.5.1 Harmonic Project and FIWARE
FIWARE was chosen as a mean to enable an open source communication with both
the outside world and with the patient management data systems in hospitals. By
using various private enablers on a stable platform, we can create flexibility while
maintaining security on sensitive patient data. To enable data exchange between
the Smart Jacket hub interface and data visualisation for both the physician and
parents, we are using various enables such as the PEP proxy, the AuthZForce GE,
Keyrock and Data Context Streams. Future developments will also use data
computing in the FiSpace.
2.5.2 Harmonic Project’s results
Dutch high-end technology supplier DEMCON has taken over Groningen-based
Company Inbiolab. This expertise was interesting to DEMCON’s subsidiary Macawi
Medical Systems, which develops and manufactures respirators for patients of all
ages. ‘With their expertise we can make our technology even more intelligent’, says
Macawi’s CTO Geert van Dijk. The partners will set up new development projects, in
the area of clinical applications. Inbiolab expects to launch its first product within
two years, for the IC of premature babies. ‘We hope to expand this to the IC of
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adults soon after.’ He also sees opportunities for other applications, such as
monitoring chronic lung patients or screening children experiencing breathing
difficulties. In addition to respiration, there are very different bodily functions that
the Inbiolab technology could be used to measure. ‘We have already carried out a
project based on measuring pelvic floor muscles in people who are incontinent. We
can also measure EMG activity in the brain. This is carried out using patches on the
patient’s skin, so needles no longer need to be inserted into the skull. This shows
Harmonic’s critical success factor and relevant know-how.
2.6 MYSPHERA Project
MYSPHERA is a unique solution that addresses the problems related with hospital
processes such as patient safety, staff shortage and workload, too much equipment
spending and lack of care efficiency and visibility. MYSPHERA provides a REAL-TIME
PROCESS INFORMATION PLATFORM integrating all kinds of crucial real-time
information linked to patient care or logistic processes.
This information is delivered through easy to use interfaces like large dashboard
screens, mobile devices, etc., based on our core Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
that provide identification, location and tracking of patients and assets in the
hospital.
The implementation of MYSPHERA solution helps to make hospitals smart through
the location of patients and assets and process visibility.
Figure 6: MYSPHERA logo
Table 8 MYSPHERA Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Valencia, Spain
http://mysphera.com/que-es/#partners
http://mysphera.com 2015
2.6.1 MYSPHERA and FIWARE
FIWARE technology has contributed to the evolution of the MYSPHERA System into
a horizontal hospital process information system based on the following FIWARE
capacities:
• Merging information from different external sources modelling the patients and equipment in a centralized manner.
• Enabling the creation of new services and functionalities in a simple way and with the capacity of multi-access (tablets, PC, TV, smartphone, etc.).
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FIWARE Lab has provided us with cloud infrastructure, which we have used to
deploy and test the product during the development phase. Virtual machines (VM)
allow us to gradually increase the allocated resources as the development process
continues. Therefore, FIWARE Lab offers us a really convenient way to
incrementally deploy and test new functionalities.
MYSPHERA solution is able to offer a complete real-time view of what is happening
inside the hospital and at the same time it provides managers with long time data
analysis insights. In order to achieve these objectives MYHOSPITAL SOLUTION uses
the functionality provided by the following Enablers:
• Orion Context Broker GE Orion Context Broker (CB) Enabler offers data/context management based on a
publish/subscribe REST open API specification which implements Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA) NGSI9 and NGSI10 interfaces. The operations allowed by this
enabler are: register context elements, update context information, notify context
changes to subscribed applications, and query the context information.
• Context Broker MYSPHERA uses CB as the information central hub, unifying information generated
by different sources. CB contains patient and equipment entitles which are updated
from different sources: personal and health data from HIS, status from workflow
engine, location from GEOFENCING, etc. CB allows all modules to access the unified
information using queries or subscribing to information changes to get push
updates when information is updated. Context broker does not store historical data,
MYHOSPITAL solution stores historical data with its Report module.
• GEO-FENCING Enabler GEO-FENCING Enabler (GF) allows MYHOSPITAL SOLUTION to use indoor location
tracking information. Location tracking events are published directly to the Orion
Context Broker, so GF is used out of the box by MYHOSPITAL SOLUTION.
MYSPHERA has collaborated on the development of GF so there exists a deep
knowledge of it. MYHOSPITAL SOLUTION is currently using the localization module
of the GF to locate and track the tags.
GF enabler does not manage the relation between location tags and persons
carrying them, however, MYHOSPITAL SOLUTION handles that relation and adds
the location information to the patient and equipment entity. Tracking patient and
hospital equipment allows MYHOSPITAL SOLUTION to obtain insights on the usage
of the resources and execution of processes. This information can be used by
managers to optimize resources and to improve processes. At the same time, the
real-time information allows creating new functions to show an updated status of
the hospital resources and processes, which may be useful for health professionals
and also for patients’ relatives during the waiting process.
2.6.2 MYSPHERA Project’s results
The implantation of MYSPHERA solution helps to make hospitals smart through
location of patients and assets and process visibility thanks to the following
benefits:
Patient Safety: Patients can be securely and automatically identified by attached
RFID-bracelets using Smartphones, tablets, nursing trolleys or any other Bluetooth-
enabled device. Example: Patient enters OR and is automatically identified (with
our fixed installed beacon) and checked if it is the right patient, at the right time in
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the right place. Other applications: secure bedside medication, secure pairing of life
saving equipment with the right patient, etc.
Staff shortage and workload: Problems that occurs due to staff shortage caused
by stress, high workload, mistakes or low patient satisfaction can be reduced by
delivering real-time information when and where it is needed: instant location and
the state of the equipment in the operation process, information of critical
equipment (IV pumps, monitors, beds) and instant knowledge of patient location
and his or her state in the care process reduces search times to a minimum, and
avoids bottlenecks in the Emergency Department (ED). This is achieved through
better control of waiting cues and occupations as well as having information at hand
of lab and X-ray testing process, etc. Better assignment of staff to certain work
tasks based on their availability and location or urgencies, etc., that deliver a real-
time location system
(RTLS) and other systems as transport management system, OR information, would
be accomplished. The information of the processes is based on the synergy of data
and events provided by the different hospital systems (HIS, RTLS, sensors, etc.)
connected through the solution, taking into account two main premises:
• To provide just the information that a user needs, in the moment that he or she needs it.
• Using access means adapted to the users’ context: dashboards deployed in TV located in management points; access using smartphones and tablets; access through the PC (web).
Therefore, the synergy of data supplied by different sources will make it possible to
provide process information in real time regarding the state of a patient, asset or
staff, within the care process. This will allow the deployment of customized use
cases that offer real benefit to the users in different units in the hospital (surgery
units, emergency department, hospitalization, image area, and bioengineering,
etc.).
Equipment spending control: To know at any moment where an asset and in
what state it is helps to avoid hording, overstocks, losses, etc. resulting in savings.
(>100k € /a) New purchases can be better planned when knowing usage rate of
each asset (mostly less than 40%). Maintenance can be optimized and reduce
workload and costs (by time reduction, more equipment in use and less in
maintenance).
Lack of care efficiency: Knowing the exact number and time spent on patients in
different areas and states of the process, helps to detect bottlenecks and reduce
Length of Stay (cost reduction) and allows to increase patient throughput (revenue
increase). Asset management systems helps to optimize logistical workflow in real-
time in beds, transport, diagnostics, etc.
Visibility: The answer “I don’t know” or “I suppose” is not satisfactory in such life
critical and cost intensive environments as hospitals. We provide easy accessible
visibility of processes (patient care or related supporting processes as logistic,
maintenance, diagnostic, etc.) to each stakeholder group through specifically
adopted dashboard screens. Everybody will be able to know what he or she needs
to know with one look and can react accordingly if there is a need or deviation from
the predefined standards. We give department and hospital managers a powerful
tool, to access and analyse big data to detect potentials for improvement in their
process and workflow design.
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Relatives and patients’ satisfaction: The system provides information about the
situation and the care process of patients to relatives at screens in the waiting
rooms of the hospital or through APPs outside the hospital. It will increase patients
and family satisfaction and they will have a more comfortable waiting time while
the professionals are doing their job.
2.7 UMANICK Project
UMANICK Identity for Health is a complete suite of multi-biometric and multi-modal
software that uses the most advanced biometric technologies: fingerprint, iris, face,
and voice recognition. Biometrics is the only way to unequivocally, safely and
securely identify a person as a unique individual. Patients are identified by their
fingerprints, iris or face when entering the hospital or medical centre and before
any medical procedure. The solution is integrated with the hospital or medical
centre processes and information systems (HIS, EMR, etc.) through health standard
HL7 and web services API. It uses standard fingerprints and iris sensors from
multiple vendors.
Figure 7: UMANICK logo
Table 9 UMANICK Key information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Valencia, Spain Emilio Gallego, Ilko García, http://www.umanick.com 2015
2.7.1 UMANICK and FIWARE
The use of the FIWARE platform and technology allowed this project to implement
with little effort, a complete on demand self-service biometric system. Traditionally,
highly sophisticated biometric systems with the best performance were only
available to those businesses that could afford them. But now, an enterprise grade
level biometric system, UMANICK Identity for Health, is available to all healthcare
organizations around the world. Users can use our solution in Software as a Service
(SaaS) model, for accurate patient identification, anytime and anywhere.
The use of IAAS Resource Management GE saves the UMANICK team a great deal
of time to create virtual machines, security groups, etc.; since all these components
are deployed through its API, and with IAAS it can be done visually making it more
intuitive and simpler. Also the FIWARE security stack conformed by Identity
Management KeyRock GE, Authorization PDP Authzforce GE and Pep Proxy Willma
GE helps us to manage users and organizations that want to have access to our
web applications and to our backend services. This combination of general enablers
grants us the capability to provide complex authorization policies to their backend
easily without the necessity of programming an authorization layer to their
software.
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They also made use of Orion Context Broker to gather behavioural information of
the users. Depending on the user device, the data to collect could be different. In a
computer, mouse dynamics and keystroke dynamics are tracked in the same way a
person types, the timing of keystrokes, or with an adapted keyboard, and the
pressure used. In case of mobile devices like smartphones, the way a person walks
based on location and travel speed obtained from a GPS sensor, and the tapping
behaviours of individual users on the device touch-screen could be tracked. The
touch patterns vary from person to person due to differences in hand geometry and
finger agility. Each user has a unique personal tapping pattern, reflected by the
different rhythm, strength, and angle preferences of the applied force. Based on the
potentiality of Cosmos GE, this massive amount of data could be analysed,
extracting behaviour patterns of the users and provide additional security to our
applications.
Thanks to their FIWARE-based infrastructure, health care organisations have an
affordable solution, especially for the small to medium-sized hospitals. They can set
up within minutes a complete biometric infrastructure for almost any hospital size.
In addition, health care organisations can consume FIWARE-based biographic,
biometrics and behavioural services via any type of network connection, and from
any kind of device. Our customers, the healthcare institutions, can benefit from the
economies of scale resulting in fixed and predicable costs; this is unlikely with
traditional biometric systems, where the costs can greatly escalate over a short
period of time.
UMANICK’s biometrics services can be cut back or expanded in just a matter of
seconds; resources can be released to the end customers instantaneously, in
proportion with the particular level of demand. Their biometric database(s) can be
scaled to fit any array of biometric applications within just a matter of minutes for a
wide array of applications, ranging from the simplest 1:1 to the most complex 1:N
verification scenarios. As opposed to existing traditional biometric deployments,
where databases have to be literally redesigned and rebuilt in order to cope with
increased demand making it virtually cost prohibitive to do so, UMANICK Identity
for Health is highly scalable. Also, given the pooled resource nature of the FIWARE
infrastructure, redundancy is very easy and cost effective, whereas in traditional
biometric deployments, redundancy very often means extra servers to store the
biometric templates and other processes, resulting in a much greater expense.
FIWARE Components integrated in UMANICK:
• IAAS Resource Management GE
• FIWARE security stack conformed by Identity Management KeyRock GE
Authorization PDP Authzforce GE and Pep Proxy Willma GE
• Orion Context Broker
• Cosmos GE
2.7.2 UMANICK Project’s results
UMANICK launched its application in Bogota in 2016 and plans to further expand in
Peru and Ecuador in 2017. The benefits of UMANICK Identity for Health can be
summarised in four main achievements:
• No more patient harm due to wrong identification.
• Zero fraud by patient identity theft.
• Reduction of Healthcare spending.
• Zero ‘second victims’ (healthcare professionals that suffer when involved in
an error that harms a patient)
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2.8 NeuroAtHome Project
NeuroAtHome is a suite of software applications that allows healthcare professionals
to prescribe physical and cognitive therapy across care settings: it can be used
during the initial recovery process in hospitals or as prescribed by clinicians for
post-discharge use in community and home settings. Similarly, NeuroAtHome's
more than 60 exercises use real-time motion capture and gamification to quantify
therapy and thus, improve outcomes and increase patient engagement.
As a result, while patients complete clinician-prescribed therapy sessions regardless
of location, NeuroAtHome analyses stored motion and session performance data,
providing healthcare professionals with reports to track patient evolution
objectively.
Figure 8: NeuroAtHome logo
Table 10 NeuroAtHome Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Valencia, Spain and Florida, USA
Rehametrics http://www.rehametrics.com 2013
2.8.1 NeuroAtHome and FIWARE
FIWARE allowed NeuroAtHome to include value-added features that make our
product offering more complete with a much shorter development time than would
normally be expected. As a result, we decided to add several FI-STAR and FIWARE
generic and specific enablers, among them:
• Motion Evaluator SE: Compares how similar two different recorded body
movements are to each other.
• 2D UI GE: Enables a modular structure for the web application interface.
• Virtual Characters GE: Allows visualization of recorded body movements.
• NeuroAtHome quantified therapy: Performed wherever you are.
2.8.2 NeuroAtHome Project’s results
Finally, NeuroAtHome has received several national and international awards
including a 2015 Microsoft Health Innovation Award for innovation in care delivery.
We were the only non-American company that received this recognition. More
recently, NeuroAtHome was among only twelve companies selected from among all
FIWARE accelerators to be invited to participate in the newly created VIP
Programme. So far, NeuroAtHome solution has been used by healthcare
organizations in 10 countries to deliver physical and cognitive therapy to more than
4.000 patients.
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3 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS: SMART
CITIES/SECURITY
3.1 Torino Wireless Project
The FIWARE project developed by the city of Turin focuses on the issue of security
as perceived by citizens. The data selected to measure it comprise warnings or
complaints collected by the local police contact centres about disturbances,
disruptive behaviours and damages to public urban properties.
The App developed with the FIWARE technology organizes and analyses the data,
providing a dashboard, which geo-localizes critical activities on a city map. The App
sends real time notifications to the stakeholders about the security issues and also
provides them with updated statistics.
The project aims to:
• Give to the local police more dynamic communication tools with the citizen. • Make citizens feel actors of the public administration. • Stimulate the relationship between the City and its habitants. • Offers a short term analysis tool of the security dynamic in the city
Figure 9: Torino Wireless logo
Table 11 Torino Wireless Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Turin, Italy Torino Wireless Foundation, Telecom Italia, Politecnico of Turin, Turin Municipal Police
http://torinowireless.it/fiware-per-torino-smart-city
2014
3.1.1 Torino Wireless Project and FIWARE
FIWARE represented a good match with the city’s Master Plan, providing the chance
for further development. In particular, the FIWARE open technology represented a
great opportunity for developing new services and its focus on open data was in line
with the goals of the city’s Master Plan.
The Generic Enablers deployed in the App are: Data Visualization – Spago BI for the
dashboard. This GE allows getting insights on data and turning them into actionable
knowledge for effective decision-making processes thanks to reporting and charting
tools. In addition, its modular approach, scalable architecture and open standards
ensure easy customization and the development of user-friendly solutions. The
Configuration Manager – Orion Context Broker manages the notifications.
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3.1.2 Torino Wireless Project’s results
The Turin FIWARE allowed the creation of a fruitful partnership among different
stakeholders: political actors, technical experts and education institutions. In
addition, this partnership allowed for the accomplishment of an important goal. The
data employed by the App used to be the exclusive property of the police force and
of the Department for Urban Security. The FIWARE project laid the conditions for
the release of this data, which is now part of the Open Database of the city. The
App was presented to the public at large during both FIWARE and third party
events. The feedbacks collected during these occasions were extremely positive,
with great appreciation for the App from the citizens as an innovative tool for
immediate and simplified interactions between the citizens and the institutions. As a
key partner in the project, Torino Wireless was able to access the wide network of
FIWARE members, getting in touch with other organizations collaborating in the
Smart Cities project. Thanks to the network, the foundation was able to increase its
visibility at the international level and it also established relationships aimed at
mutual knowledge transfer and exchange of experience.
3.2 Eindhoven Living Labs, Stratumseind 2.0 lab Project
Eindhoven is one of the six Dutch cities that signed the Open and Agile Smart Cities
(OASC) letter of intent to join an initiative that will create smart cities based on the
needs of cities and communities. Eindhoven can be seen as exhibiting a truly hands-on experimental approach to the smart city.
The whole City of Eindhoven in The Netherlands is a Living Laboratory that uses
sensors, LED lights, sound systems, and citizen engagement to create a new level
of interaction and place making between residents and the city authority. The
Stratumseind 2.0 lab is about security and crowd management (no eco). The
‘Stratumseind’ is a street in the centre of Eindhoven known for its many clubs and
bars, and with its own particular related problems (excessive alcohol consumption,
street brawls, etc.). The street has been equipped with lighting devices and
sensors, cameras and an actual control centre in order to collect street-level activity
data (movement of people, volume of sound, twitter feeds, etc.).
The aim is to provide an integrated solution for ‘Smart Crowd Management’ with
the ambition to make them more ‘manageable’, attractive and profitable for
businesses, citizens, law enforcement and other stakeholders. The project is framed
in terms of cutting edge technologies and applications (e.g. smart sensors, smart
interfaces, smart lights, smart data, smart design, augmented reality, gaming) and
improving the quality of the local site (to ‘improve liveability, safety and
attractiveness’). It is an on-going project for the local municipality (two people from
the municipality are the main initiators), and is supported by local businesses and a
few high-tech companies (including both multinational corporations and local start-
ups). Initially €50,000 was paid by the municipality and the collective organization
representing the local bars, but with the advent of more hi-tech companies and
recent publicity, the budget is likely to have increased (this is not clear from the documents and probably subject to change).
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Figure 10: The Control Centre of the Eindhoven Stratumseind 2.0 Lab
Table 12 Eindhoven Stratumseind 2.0 lab Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Eindhoven, Netherland
Eindhoven City Council
http://35.156.253.103:3000/#/home 2014
3.2.1 Eindhoven Living Labs, Stratumseind 2.0 Lab and FIWARE
FIWARE is used as an enabling technology for many of these projects, and the City
of Eindhoven is currently embarking on a city consultation to discuss the possibility
of applying FIWARE across all the Living Labs sites as a digital layer, after the
community agree on a common value based on privacy, ethics and the use of
technology for the common good of the city. The FIWARE components used in the
projects are: CEP, IoT Brocker, and Orion.
3.2.2 Eindhoven Living Labs, Stratumseind 2.0 Lab Project results
The initial project, Startumseind 1.0, was launched in 2012 and the current
Stratumseind 2.0 is its successor. The project seems to have developed organically.
One evaluation report is critical of the project in that: “... one of the main concerns
and structural weaknesses, almost a logical consequence of that key success factor,
is the lack of embedding of the Living Lab. It would be better for an experimental
setup like the Living Lab to be guaranteed at least a 2- or 3-year period for
experimenting, rather than being confronted frequently with existential uncertainty.
That uncertainty quite often scares potential new partners...” (Venture Spring
2015). Concerns over privacy have also been raised with regard to this experiment,
in particular comparing the Stratumseind 2.0 site to a Panopticon, highlighting the
risk that data will not be sufficiently anonymized, and asserting the city dweller’s right not to be measured (Tegenlicht 2016).
3.3 SmartAppCity Project
SmartAppCity is the first application worldwide that brings together all city
services: immediate information with tourist interest which fosters the commercial
sector and generate value to citizens. Under a PPP (Public–Private Partnership)
framework, city councils can show their information and data to serve their citizens,
as well as shops and businesses will offer their products and services. The city
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open-data provides valuable information for citizens, improving their quality of life and generating wealth.
Figure 11: The SmartAppCity logo
Table 13 The SmartAppCity Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
La Rioja, Spain JIG Internet Consulting www.smartappcity.com
2015
3.3.1 SmartAppCity Project and FIWARE
FIWARE components used for the project’s development: Orion Context Broker,
CKAN, Cosmos, Identity Management KeyRock, and Application Mashup Wirecloud,
CartoDB connector. The project faced a learning process of trial and error in
applying the FIWARE technology. FIWARE labs were fine for the pilots but were not
reliable enough to deploy a solid version of the application platform, therefore
external servers were used. The FIWARE program offered funding, open
technology, huge community, visibility and reasonably easy integration.
3.3.2 SmartAppCity Project results
The App of the City of Logroño is the first application developed under the
SmartAppCity project. This is a model of public-private partnership in which the
City provides its data and information and a company, under contractual pre-
established criteria, manages and maintains the application, and makes use of the
business of commercial fostering. Logroño’s population is over 152,000 inhabitants,
the App Logroño.es has had more than 40,000 downloads, 560,000 visits and more
than 1.5 million of served pages. Currently, more than 300 businesses and shops
have offered their products and services through the App. The project has signed
contracts with 7 Spanish municipalities, but they have also signed agreements for
international distribution in several countries (Chile, Argentina, México, Ecuador,
Costa Rica, Colombia and India)- The project has had high visibility (TV,
newspapers, magazines, webs, Social Networks…), invitation to do presentations
worldwide: in Sao Paulo, London, Stockholm, Tangier, Hamburg, Coimbra,
Pamplona, Trento, Austin, Madrid, Brussels, Berlin and contact with investors,
government, potential partners and won many awards!
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3.4 Smart Cities Project
HOP Ubiquitous has developed an IoT solution for Smart Cities focused on Sensing
using M2M connectivity and also in co-creation and users engagement through
Physical Web technology to facilitate its use and interaction with the users. One of
the key advantages has been the capacity to personalize sensors / encapsulations
using 3D printing and the capacity to integrate the data into a global ecosystem.
Figure 12: The Smart Cities logo
Table 14 The Smart Cities Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Ceuti, Murcia, Spain HOP Ubiquitous http://smartcities.hopu.eu 2016
3.4.1 Smart Cities Project and FIWARE
FIWARE components used for the project’s development are: Orion Context Broker,
Marketplace, 3DScan, PROTON, COSMOS, Object Storage, and FITMAN CBPM.
FIWARE was chosen because it provided: Open Source Components, Scalable
Cloud infrastructure based on Open Stack, Funding and Community (access to VCs
and events with other start-ups). The project encountered initial bugs that needed
to be solved; the project’s team contributed to the open source community,
especially in the area of generic enablers such as marketplace and some agents
from the Orion context Broker.
3.4.2 Smart Cities Project’s results
The project raised a strong interest from large companies with good cooperation
and partnership with key partners such as Telefonica and Fujitsu. The pilot testing
has been completed.
3.5 Smart Cities Lab India Project
SCLI is currently building an open source community with the FIWARE technology
and platform for developing new and innovative solutions for making cities smart.
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Figure 13: The Smart Cities Lab India logo
Table 15 The Smart Cities Lab India Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Germany, India FI-MEDIA project, Godan, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability South Asia, European Business and Technology Centre, Tsenso
GmbH, Ubiwhere, TeamDev, Netzlink ICT GmbH, Oxyent Technologies, Gaia Smart Cities
www.fiware.in 2016
3.5.1 Smart Cities Lab India Project and FIWARE
The Smart City Lab India offers the infrastructure resources that entrepreneurs and
web-developers need to build their solutions. They can deploy these solutions or
services to one or more nodes within Smart City Lab India and even create their
private cloud depending on the resources they need. Entrepreneurs are not alone
whilst our experts will help them to connect, adapt or migrate their service and
solutions to the platform and train them in how to get most out of it. Furthermore
Smart City Lab node has access to business experts and mentors.
3.5.2 Smart Cities Lab India Project results
The contracts have been signed with city's stakeholders. FIWARE will help cities to
build and manage innovative apps and services by making complex processes
simple, cost effective, high quality and secure. All of the FIWARE technology are
already available and ready to use via Smart City Lab India, the free of charge
experimental environment, where developers and web entrepreneurs can find the
means to build their projects and test applications with real data and real users.
3.6 Everimpact Project
Everimpact monitors greenhouse gas emissions in real time for cities using an
innovative combination of Satellites and Ground Sensors’ data. Cities get a real-
time map of their emissions at street and building level, at a precision never
reached before. This is helpful for Cities to see whether their climate actions are
working, and help them target key areas of interventions. Monitoring, reporting and
verifying emissions as part of their climate plan, means that Cities can now
monetize their CO2 reductions with various carbon pricing instruments (offsetting
schemes and taxes). Carbon Taxes is a carbon pricing instrument that is really
gaining momentum to bring revenues to cities. This is a very efficient way to
finance their infrastructure investments, and move from a polluted city to a
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sustainable and Smart City. The Everimpact’s method to generate revenues for
cities is certified by the UNFCCC.
Figure 14: Everimpact logo
Table 16 Everimpact Information
Location Partners Website Year
Launch
Brest, France R20, GEO, M-Trust, Cap2100 www.everimpact.org 2016
3.6.1 Everimpact and FIWARE
The use of FIWARE technology has saved the project months of work in the
development of the software since many modules were ready to be used (think of a
multitude of apps ready to be downloaded on the Apple app store).
The following enablers were used:
• Cosmos GE for Big Data Analysis to gain advantage of the distributed,
parallel "divide/conquer" model MapReduce, the fairly convenient
deployment, and computing instance instantiation/teardown.
• Geoserver/3D as GIS Data Provider to structure our data as GIS layers, view
our data about sources of emissions, time of day, etc.
• 2D-UI GE library to build application-like interface without breaking many
established standards for web programming, and present end users with a
rich and powerful UI.
• Access to funding in really good conditions (grants).
Access to an open source technology saving time and resources which added
value to the project's value proposition to Smart Cities (provides an open
platform and entire ecosystem of other apps that Cities can connect to in a
very seamless way.
• Fi-C3 has also organizes useful workshops with experts and business
coaches that have helped us understand new opportunities and polish the
business model.
• FI-C3 helps networking with relevant customers, investors, and partners.
• From Fi-C3 visibility by accessing the FIWARE VIP Programme. This resulted
in several invitations from investors and possible partners.
• FIWARE and Fi-C3 accelerator brought us tremendous help, which benefited
our company in many ways:
o We accessed funding such as grants.
o We accessed an open source technology that saves time and resources,
but also adds value to our value proposition to Smart Cities (An open
platform can be provided and an entire ecosystem of other apps that
Cities can connect to in a very seamless way.
o Fi-C3 has also organized useful workshops with experts and business
coaches that have helped us understand new opportunities and polish
the business model. They increased our chances of success.
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o FI-C3 has helped us network with relevant customers, investors, and
partners. They also mobilized a business developer to accelerate our
growth.
o From Fi-C3, visibility by accessing the FIWARE VIP Programme was
obtained. This resulted in several invitations from investors and
possible partners. Following the announcement of good news (VIP
FIWARE is a tough selection process), we had one of the early Skype
investors stepping out of his busy day to give us a clap on the shoulder
and offer some help. Great visibility.
3.6.2 Everimpact Project’s results
Everimpact project has released the first version of the application to showcase it to
cities (using FIWARE enablers). The project has been selected in the FIWARE VIP
program (top 15 start-ups), it has already signed a strategic partnership with a
large energy company and it is now working closely with Telefonica. It has been
showcased at the Paris COP 21 World Climate Summit, and received excellent
feedback, from which the team built a pipeline of prospects and partners. The first
strategic partnership with a large energy company has been signed and pilot cities
have advanced in the pilot process.
3.7 MVMANT Project
MVMANT develops and commercializes a complete platform that enables urban
transportation on demand based on vehicles circulating over fixed routes (like a
bus), but with service on demand (like a taxi). The dispatching of vehicles is
managed by predictive algorithms and by requests generated through the dedicated
app. This allows to allocate the vehicles when and were needed and match the
mobility needs of citizens in the most efficient way. By servicing fixed routes, the
MVMANT service complies with existing public transit regulations and can be
integrated more easily with the existing public transit offers. The MVMANT platform
consists also of a city loyalty program and a targeted advertisement solution.
The city loyalty program is a fidelity scheme based on trip units called MVMILES.
Customers of participating businesses and institutions are rewarded with MVMILES
and those trip units are credited in the digital wallet of the customer.
The MVMILES can be redeemed on the MVMANT service in order to obtain cheaper
or free trips. The targeted advertisement platform allows to display advertisement,
news and all sorts of information both on the app and in the vehicle, through
dedicated displays. The advertisement can be targeted by customer demographics,
geo-fencing, weather, day, hour. This targeted advertisement platform can be
compared to Facebook advertising in mobility.
Figure 15: MVMANT logo
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Table 17 MVMANT Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Germany, Italy Mercedes-Benz, Edisonweb www.mvmant.com 2016
3.7.1 MVMANT and FIWARE
FIWARE has enabled MVMANT to develop key features in a fast and convenient
way, with ready-to-go Generic Enablers. The components used were: Gateway Data
Handling EspR4FastData, Identity Management KeyRock, Revenue Settlement and
Sharing System, FIWARE cloud.
3.7.2 MVMANT Project results
A major market player has acquired MVMANT. It has signed a deal with RTA Dubai,
where the service will be implemented and expanded to cover the whole city for
Expo 2020. MVMANT has entered a strategic cooperation with Mercedes-Benz and
launched in Venice (Italy), in cooperation with the local taxi company.
3.8 Valencia VLCi (Valencia Ciudad Inteligente)
Valencia has prepared a 2020 Smart City strategy promoted by the strong
commitment of the Mayor Department of the city with the aim of transforming
Valencia into a Smart City to enable citizens’ services. The ICT department of the
City and INN Valencia Foundation began to work in the Valencia Smart City
Strategy in 2013 to improve urban governance for innovation, efficiency and
transparency. VLCi Strategy has been conceived with an integrated and
multidisciplinary approach, involving all areas of the local council, conducting a
technological analysis and defining smart strategic objectives, as well as an
exhaustive compilation of indicators, which provide the necessary content for the
city management.
Figure 16: Valencia VLCi logo
Table 18 Valencia VLCi Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Valencia, Spain Telefónica http://vlci.inndeavalencia.com/?lang=en 2014
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3.8.1 Valencia VLCi Project and FIWARE
FIWARE was the platform of choice selected by Telefónica to leverage on a software
suite that provides out of the box capabilities particularly well adapted to Smart
Cities management. The case of Valencia is a success story of collaboration:
FIWARE contributed with the technology, but Valencia provided a valuable real life
experience that helped to identify gaps, needs and possible improvements that in
turn impacted the roadmap of FIWARE with positive contributions.
Valencia Ciudad Inteligente selected GEs that suited the need to process data and
events in a complex scenario such as a Smart City with a number of complex
services that need integration and advanced monitoring as follows:
• Context Broker: Publishes and distributes events processed by the platform.
• Cosmos / Big Data: Provides a powerful foundation to persist the data and
analyse the historic events recorded in the systems.
• CKAN: This platform is a de facto standard for Open Data and it is offered as
part of the FIWARE native applications. CKAN is very near the needs of a
Smart City and it is widely used in this field.
• Cygnus: This GE receives the data associated to events coming from Orion
Context Broker and injects them onto the database.
• IDM + PEP Proxy: FIWARE also provides security functionalities. More
precisely, identification (IDM GE) and authorisation via the PEP proxy GE
(the requests to Orion are routed to the PEP proxy, who only grants access
to Orion if the request is issued by an authorised application).
3.8.2 Valencia VLCi Project Results
Valencia has a global platform for smart city management (VLCi Platform), which is
the main element of the government’s Smart City Strategy. It provides a
compilation of key indicators of city management and its urban services to be
offered transparently to citizens and municipal services to improve efficiency in
management. To support the process, Valencia has adopted an open data policy
supporting the development of FIWARE standard, the adoption of which has made
Valencia the frontrunner Spanish city in the interoperability of the different
services. Moreover, Valencia is involved in RED.es (the Spanish NREN) with the
objective of pushing the Valencia Smart City Strategy in three different levels:
improving the effectiveness of public services in terms of efficiency and
sustainability, developing an economic model based on innovation and knowledge
and increasing transparency and citizen participation.
3.9 Smart Santander
One of the instruments of the strategy of the city of Santander for sustainable
development has always focused on the continuous evolution of its Smart City
dimension. In fact, the EU-financed project Smart Santander has been a key
milestone that enabled a wide variety of research lines, thus making the city an
urban laboratory. Among the objectives of this initiative, the improvement of the
quality of municipality services is paramount, but also the realignment of the
productive model around technology and knowledge. Tuned to this strategy,
Santander City Council is deeply committed in the development of the smart
dimension of the city of Santander, in order to provide to its citizens and visitors
improved services. Therefore, some of the outputs developed in most of the EU
projects which the city council is involved in, might be integrated as part of the city
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ecosystem so as to guarantee not only their sustainability but also improving citizen
perception about how the city operates.
Now that Santander is ready to deploy the smart city platform aiming at providing
support to all the urban services running in the city as well as to store and expose
the collected data. This will leverage the consolidation of NGSI 9/10 interfaces for
exposing contextual data and reinforces some of the decisions that so far been
assumed in an ad hoc manner. This has enormous implications in terms of
replicating services whilst reducing the time and cost in adapting them.
The Smart Santander initiative has gone through different stages and is still a live
project in constant evolution under the patronage of the Santander City Council:
• Phase 1. Original Smart Santander Project (completed): initial EU sponsored
project that laid the Foundations of Smart Santander.
• Phase 2. Ongoing Smart Santander Project: initiative of the Town Council at
Santander building on top of Smart Santander. The platform is ready,
completely mature and tested. The focus is integration and deployment.
Figure 17: Smart Santander logo (original project)
Table 19 Smart Santander Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Santander, Spain
Original Smart Santander Project (completed):
Telefonica (leader), Alcatel-
Lucent Italy s.p.a. (Italy),
Alcatel-Lucent Spain S.A. (Spain), Ericsson d.o.o. (Serbia), TTI(Spain), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), University of Surrey (UK), Universität zu Lübeck
(Germany), Lancaster University (UK), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (France), Computer Technology Institute (Grecia), Alexandra Instituttet A/S (Denmark),
Santander Council(Spain),
Sociedad para el Desarrollo de Cantabria (Spain), University of Melbourne (Australia)
Current SmartSantander
Project (ongoing):
Telefonica, NEC
Original Project (completed):
http://www.smartsantander.eu/
Current project:
Not available (there is not a dedicated website)
2010 (original project)
2017 (current project)
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3.9.1 Smart Santander Project and FIWARE
Smart Santander kicked off their work before the availability of a mature FIWARE
platform. FIWARE benefited from the insights of Smart Cities gained by Telefonica
in this project. Smart Santander was in this sense a source of inspiration for
appliances such as the Orion Context broker or IoT Agents, who could have a clear
idea of what the actual needs of the industry were in real life scenarios. Smart
Santander, in turn, could benefit years after from the powerful functionalities
brought in by FIWARE. The actual usage of FIWARE GEs at present in Smart
Santander are as follows:
• IoT Agents: GE that talks to the sensors to collect the southbound data and
sends them northbound to the Context Broke-r
• Context Broker: This GE encapsulates the underlying infrastructure and
sensors as an abstract layer that talk to the applications that subscribe to
concrete events.
• IDM + PEP Proxy: The security GEs provides authentication and
authorisation of access to the resources in the IT ecosystem.
3.9.2 Smart Santander Project Results
As of 2017, Santander is deploying a production level Smart City platform based on
FIWARE that will aggregate and exploit the data gathered from several thousands
of IoT devices all over the city. This will consolidate the strategy and will allow
applying a sustainable model for the Smart City and will enable the creation of an
ecosystem of reliable applications that will exploit the data provided by the city.
FIWARE is a success story that closes the loop from innovation supported by public
subsidies to actual deployment of technologies for the benefit of the citizens.
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4 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS:
TRANSPORT
4.1 Connect Robotics Project
Connect Robotics believes in the use of drones for low weight package transport too
hard to reach regions, providing a quick and cheap solution for the last mile
delivery process. This is a service level booster for the last mile and scheduled
deliveries, and a helpful tool for internal logistics. Connect Robotics is transforming
the "last mile" delivery in a completely autonomous process, from the distribution
centre to the destination. The usage of drones overcome traffic jams, rivers,
mountains or damaged infrastructure, and allows timely delivery of urgent
medicines, express packages or food; whatever the need, Connect Robotics Drone
Delivery Automation is the best system choice to automate ready-to-fly drones
which is managed though our UTM (UAV Traffic Management), made especially for
deliveries.
Some key characteristics:
• Hardware Agnostic, Autonomous Drone.
• Advanced telecommunication capabilities.
• Collision Avoidance.
• Centralized Air Traffic Controller.
• Integration of all agents in a Delivery Management System.
Figure 18: Connect Robotics logo
Table 20 Connect Robotics Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Porto, Portugal Supported by support from ESA
BIC Portugal, FIWARE and Building Global Innovators
http://www.connect-
robotics.com/
2015
4.1.1 Connect Robotics Project and FIWARE
Connect Robotics chose FIWARE due to its great connectivity potential with future
IoT systems, and also to benefit from a robust and reliable system to support the
quality they wanted to offer to their clients. FIWARE was also an easy to implement
platform, with an opportunity to be part of an ecosystem. Connect Robotics used
FIWARE to integrate the elements of our delivery process: Sender, Receiver, Drone,
UTM and Administration Interface. The Generic Enablers used were: Orion Context
Broker, Complex Event Processing (CEP), Cosmos, COSMOS, Cygnus, Hadoop,
Wirecloud, Keyrock, Wilma.
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4.1.2 Connect Robotics Project Results
Connect Robotics already conducts autonomous drone deliveries in Portugal
(approved by ANAC) and has successfully completed the first pilots with potential
customers, demonstrating the technology potential. Connect Robotics’ goal is to
establish multiple delivery trials with potential customers, in order to represent a
success case supporting the regulation development, which is the main roadblock to
commercialisation in scale. With our system, we want to support autonomous
BVLOS flights (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) which is a founding member of the
Global UTM Association, and is supported by ESA BIC Portugal, FIWARE and MIT-
Portugal BGI.
4.2 QRoutes Project
QRoutes is a routing engine designed to meet the needs of local authorities
planning schools and SEN transport. It harnesses the full-potential of information
technology in an online tool and leaves out the baggage of expensive, bloated and
hard-to-maintain systems. The result is nimble and powerful. Its main features are:
• QRoutes has an intuitive and interactive GIS-based user interface. Routing is
either manual (QRoutes Lite) or automatic with the option to manually
adjust routes (QRoutes) so planners can quickly and easily apply their on-
the-job knowledge when and where necessary.
• QRoutes partners with industry leader, Ordnance Survey, to validate and
geo-code all source and destination addresses.
• QRoutes users can create ‘Stops’ where passengers from nearby homes can
board and alight together. Existing public bus stops are available options
and, in any case, new Stops can be checked for suitability via the tie-in to
Google Street View. Planners who create Stops can then re-optimise to
produce ever more efficient routes.
• The QRoutes planner can configure board and alight times for 19 passenger
types, set speeds for 13 road types, calibrate road speeds from actual
journey times, add map overlays, generate different vehicle layouts, and
choose on what combinations of cost, time travelled, distance travelled, CO2
emissions etc. to optimise routes.
• QRoutes Plus customers use QTracker to manage the delivery of routes
planned in QRoutes on a day-to-day basis. They can make edits and clone
those edits to other days. Passengers can track their vehicle in a similar
way and opt to receive SMS service alerts.
Figure 19: QRoutes logo
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Table 21 Connect Robotics Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Bristol, UK SEND-TO Project, Esoterix Systems Ltd
http://qroutes.co.uk 2016
4.2.1 QRoutes Project Results
Kent County Council (KCC) was one of the first local authorities to take a
subscription on QRoutes and is already realising significant expenditure savings as
a result. KCC estimate those savings to be in the order of £1.5 million annually. But
the benefits have not just been financial, but also include reduced traffic and carbon
emissions – in the case of one school for example, Qroutes has resulted in an 11%
decrease in usage of SEND transport vehicles and the attendant reduced carbon
emission. “QRoutes improves the routing and reduces the number of contracts we
need” comments Shane Bushell, KCC’s Client Transport Manager for Public
Transport - “now we can route as often as we like, even during the academic year
we are able to quickly re-plan to ensure the contracts remain efficient”. QRoutes is
available immediately online (as a cloud solution) under a monthly or yearly
subscription. The first 30 days is provided free of charge as a trial period. A
customer can also request customisation of functionality.
4.3 Fargo Project
FARGO aims at progressively developing a global end-to-end multimodal logistics
platform based on the use of an electronic seal device. The electronic seal is able to
provide real-time information about the transported cargo thanks to specific
sensors embedded in the system. As the electronic seal is semi-autonomous,
infrastructure needs can be minimized, so that costs of deployment are drastically
cut down. The system should be directly usable by logistic companies as a security-
monitoring tool for their freights. However, FARGO is intended to provide further
benefits to third parties involve in international commerce, such as sea and dry
ports operators, as well as custom authorities that will also take advantage from
automation and availability of contextual data. FARGO pursues to transfer the most
advanced ICT concepts to a traditionally industrial sector such as international
multimodal transport of freights. Rather than providing just another track and trace
vertical solution like most competitors do, they aim at designing vendor
independent services and an integration platform instead of an ad-hoc application.
Such approach is very challenging in terms of identifying stakeholders’ needs and
providing transversal yet meaningful core services that might plug in well-known
industrial processes.
Figure 20: Galilea Soluciones logo
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Table 22 Fargo project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Madrid, Spain Galilea Soluciones http://www.galileasoluciones.com 2016
4.3.1 Fargo Project and FIWARE
The FIWARE holistic vision made it the best choice to boost FARGO technological
adventure. Modern applications need robust, competitive infrastructure as a
foundation for success. Although most technology behind FIWARE did exist before,
it is how this platform was conceived, focusing on openness, modularity and
specifications rather than implementation, that makes it a very good choice for
developers to relay on. Furthermore, FIWARE seamlessly integrate every single
service, such as IoT, big data or cloud computing, just to remark on some of them,
that might be considered as the core enablers for any future Internet application.
However, FIWARE would have been just another PaaS framework without its
commitment to support business and start-ups efforts. In fact, the Fargo projects’
leader underlined that technological aspects of FIWARE constitute just one
dimension of the whole meaning of FIWARE. FIWARE is a community focused on
business development and digital transformation; it is an invaluable accelerator and
business coaching program; it is the European Commission commitment with ICT
SMEs; it is also a network of professionals and entrepreneurs that work together
with the aim of revolutionizing traditional business models with disruptive and,
sometimes, daring products and services based on technology.
Fargo project made use of IoT related technology for base stations to collect state
information about containers. Two back-ends are maintained to be used in different
environments. The IoT Agent is used to gather data from sensor devices and to
upload this data to servers. The other back-end is an application that directly
generates requests to the context broker. The back-end to be used depends on the
hardware capabilities in the back-end, as embedded car PCs or more simple devices
with low computation power a 3G connection. Data received from sensors are
stored using ORION context broker in servers. Some more static data is also stored
in ORION, given that clients already know how to access ORION using NGSI
protocols. Historic values were stored using the HST enabler provided by Telefonica
I+D, although due to some limitations a simple alternative has been developed
more conformant to their needs. Clients’ access information where prototyped using
the Mashup enabler. Later, a specific client was implemented to use different web
technologies with allowed more control on the data and its presentation. Security
enablers (KeyRock and PEP proxy) were used for authentication and authorization.
Historic data is also exported to the Cosmos enabler making use of Cygnus enabler.
Although this data is not being actively used at the moment, processing this data
using Hadoop and results publication in the CKAN platform (or other equivalent
platforms) is considered a key element in the future commercial strategy.
4.3.2 Fargo Project Results
There are huge benefits that the international transport of freights’ sector can
receive from the results of this project, such as automatic inventory updates in
destination, theft attempts detection, early warnings, identification of inappropriate
environmental conditions or complying with regulations and policies. FARGO
contributes to improving international commerce security and optimizing
commercial routes and port operations. Hence, FARGO has already drawn the
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interest of some potential customers as freight forwarders and end-users.
Furthermore, a strategic agreement between Galilea Soluciones and its
technological partner, Arquimea Ingeniería, has been achieved, in order to supply
and evolve an electronic seal device 100% compliant with FARGO.
4.4 OpenMove Project
Province of Trento is located in the North of Italy and has 500, 000 residents and 5
million tourists per year. Like basically every city or region worldwide, it faces the
problem to facilitate and encourage public transport and reduce difficulties with
parking. Not only it is important to provide residents and tourists with trip
information, but it is pivotal to allow them also to pay easily for mobility services,
with no currency or language issues and the distress of finding ticket shops. Mobile
ticketing is pivotal to address these issues, yet today transport agencies and
municipalities don’t have a digital sales channel at their grasp (unlike Booking for
hotels or Blablacar for car sharing): setup and maintenance of mobile ticketing are
time-consuming and expensive.
The solution that was developed by Trentino Marketing and Province of Trento in
collaboration with the private company Lucian S.r.l. is OpenMove. It is a reliable
mobile ticketing solution that features:
• App for users. Users find and pay tickets for public transport (bus, train,
cableway and ski-bus services in the entire region) via mobile or web
application. In order to foster the usage among tourists, it is available in 7
languages and it has been integrated with the so-called “Guest Card”, which
is the privilege card (available both as an app and as a physical card) for
events, museums and activities in province of Trento. Particular attention has
been paid to develop a seamless user experience to include users possibly
not familiar with modern technology. Residents are enabled to pay for
transport services by registering on the app, while tourists by the means of a
single sign-on with Guest Card have a straightforward and easy way to
access public transportation (in this case for free), thanks to the digital
tickets issued by OpenMove.
• Dashboard for transport agencies. They manage autonomously mobile
ticketing on the web admin, and are able to create, edit and push tickets in
the pockets of hundreds of thousands of people using a simple wizard. The
solution has strong reliability and allows for seamless integration with
existing systems.
• App for ticket inspectors. Ticket inspectors may check the validity of
tickets via a dedicated app distributed thanks to a centralised update
mechanism.
Figure 21: OpenMove logo
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Table 23 OpenMove project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Trento, Italy Trentino Trasporti S.p.a. Trenitalia S.p.a Lucian S.r.l.
http://www.openmove.com 2015
4.4.1 OpenMove Project and FIWARE
This project leveraged on FIWARE because, besides being one of the reference
platforms for GCTC 2016, FIWARE is contributing to the International Technical
Working Group on IoT-Enabled Smart City Framework launched by NIST. FIWARE
brings the NGSI standard API which represents a pivot point for Interoperability
and Portability of Smart City applications and services. This project will also make
use of OGC standards (Open Geospatial Consortium), to access open geospatial
information offered by the SDI of the cities. Replicability, Scalability, and
Sustainability: Such FIWARE NGSI API is one of the pillars of the Open & Agile
Smart Cities initiative (oascities.org), a driven-by-implementation initiative that
works to address the needs from the cities avoiding vendor lock-in, comparability to
benchmark performance, and easy sharing of best practices. There are currently 89
cities from 19 countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific who have officially
joined this initiative, including the city of Valencia. (See more at: https://www.us-
ignite.org/globalcityteams/actioncluster/kZ7JsFs6rp4GAD7ZvThHtj/#sthash.p6rSwj
2V.dpuf).
4.4.2 OpenMove Project Results
The solution is up and running since March 2015, with customers in multiple EU
countries. It has been featured as “best practice of re-usage of open data” by W3C
and as “best innovation in Italy for PA” by eGov at SMAU 2015. OpenMove has now
several customers: public transport agencies such as Trentino Trasporti and
Trenitalia, private transport agencies such as Autostradale (Italian leaders in
shuttles from airports to big cities) and large companies such as Ericsson, whom we
work with for public tenders (e.g. for Ministries of Transport of Dubai, Qatar,
Greece).
4.5 FLOUD Project
FLOUD is an innovative, flexible and low-cost platform for road-traffic data
collection and analysis. Based on sensors equipped with advanced video analysis
software, FLOUD is the answer to our smart cities’ need for minimally invasive
systems to improve transport management through the implementation of smart
parking, pedestrian crossing protection and selecting new retail locations using
pedestrian and vehicle flow data over time. FLOUD comprises:
• Geographical view of the sensors
• Data dashboard with weekly passages chart
• Averages and trend visualisation
• Data export to Excel files
• Comparison of data collected by different sensors
• Support for external event and time series (e.g., weather data)
• REST-based API for integration of external applications
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Figure 22: FLOUD logo
Table 24 FLOUD project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Florence, Italy Magenta S.r.l. http://www.floud.eu 2015
4.5.1 FLOUD Project and FIWARE
FIWARE has been of great help for the development of the initial prototype and the
final product. Thanks to the capabilities and maturity of the FIWARE enablers, the
project’s leaders were able to devise a complex architecture with the ability of
scaling up from the few sensors we started our pilot with, without worrying about
the performance. Four FIWARE-based architectures build on several enablers. At
the core of FLOUD’s solution, Orion Context Broker, Cosmos big data storage, and
CKAN were used. All of them, plus several other GEs, connect to a custom
middleware that provides all the functionalities of the platform for the web and
mobile frontend.
4.5.2 FLOUD Project Results
FLOUD can provide meaningful statistics that can greatly help in making decisions
on resource management, or in evaluating the effects of decisions already made.
FLOUD’s main showcase is an on-going pilot running in the entire Florence
metropolitan area (42 cities, approx. 1M inhabitants). To demonstrate the flexibility
of FLOUD’s approach, more than 30 sensors were installed without the need of
additional infrastructure of any kind. The pilot is running since April 2015, and it
has collected so far more than 40M of data points, all of them publicly available in
the open data portal of the City of Florence. The sensors were connected to
windows of public and private buildings, from street-level shops, and higher, up to
the 8th floor. Some of them are publicly visible in the online demo accessible from
http://demo.floud.eu.
4.6 Scuter Project
Scuter is developing and launching an electric scooter, three-wheeled and
homologated to be driven without wearing a helmet in combination with a scooter
sharing service.
Two of our founders knew the automotive and motorcycles business, two other
founders had their car stolen and needed new vehicles and the last one broke his
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old scooter in Jan 2015. So, the decision was easy and the deal was done!
We differ from another vehicle sharing start-ups as we don’t force people to wear a
sweated and not clean helmet. And why would you use petrol in 2016?
Figure 23: Scuter logo
Table 25 Scuter project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Rome, Italy Gabriele Carbucicchio, Carmine di Nuzzo, Gianmarco Carnovale, Luca Ruggeri
http://scuter.co 2016
4.6.1 Scuter Project and FIWARE
When talking about technology, wisdom says “never reinvent the wheel”. That’s the
principle the project’s team applied to Scuter as well. Apart from the vehicle, the
“software” part of their initiative can be modelled as a distributed Smart City
platform based on Internet of Things concept. So the problems and technical
decisions are basically the same as in most of the similar applications. FIWARE was
their wheel and we can focus on “customer journey” rather than software
components and integration.
To find a technological partner for the hardware software (hw/sw) platform has
been difficult as very few suppliers were offering a mature solution. Thanks to the
team’s resilience, the homologation of the vehicle is in process, the vehicle is
practically ready to go on the road, and investors are definitely interested.
4.6.2 Scuter Project Results
The first technology and market test were run in Rome in 2016, and the first
company fleet in Milan has been set up, the service has been launched in Rome and
now Scuter is about to start the market test in Milan. Scuter has been listed among
the top 10 start-ups in Italy for the 2017, according to EU-Startups.com. Scuter
was able to secure a seed funding of €100K, a grant of €145K and is currently
doing a crowdfunding campaign which ended in March 2017.
4.7 Kiunsys Project
Large, medium and small sized cities worldwide are all facing the same need of
improving the urban mobility for citizens and businesses, to reduce traffic
congestion, pollution and energy footprint through smarter, more effective and
more sustainable services. Moreover, the current mobility solutions are often
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expensive, tied to a certain large city macro-scale situation, thus inhibiting the
take-up of solutions in smaller cities. The “connected city” offers a promising
solution. However, this requires to come up with new ways of thinking, by adopting
a holistic but modularized approach which overcomes the traditional proposal of
closed, silos solutions characterized by vendor lock-in without any interoperability
and services integration.
Kiunsys wants to offer the first connected mobility platform overcoming the
fragmentation of the existing silos systems, hardware and software, for urban
mobility services, and supporting the integration of multiple applications, to deliver
integrated, more effective and higher quality services. Our core platform, INES
Cloud, is already able to connect to many urban road infrastructures (i.e. parking
sensors, LTZ gates, VMS, etc.) managing a huge amount of data and processes.
However, to become the one stop solution for the mobility management we need to
make some enhancements to INES Cloud: (1) embracing open standards for
interfacing more 3rd-party systems, (2) managing real time complex events. Thus
with INES-FI our objective is to exploit some of the FI-WARE GEs to add new
features and services to our core product INES Cloud.
Figure 24: Kiunsys logo
Table 26 Kiunsys project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Pisa, Italy Kyunsys Srl, Deutsche Telecom www.kiunsys.com 2011
4.7.1 Kiunsys Project and FIWARE
The idea is to greatly improve INES Cloud ability to manage the urban mobility in 2
directions:
INES Cloud is a 3-tier web, cloud and modular platform, so our purpose is to use
the selected GEs as additional modules, which we shall integrate through the
interfaces already provided by the applications / APIs. As shown in the architectural
slide, such integrations will consist in:
1. Developing some specific adapters for INES with IDAS.
2. Developing specific WSs in some selected INES modules for interfacing with
ORION and Proton (e.g. Smart Parking, RFID Gates, Tap&Park, Big Data
Analysis and Parking Control modules).
3. Enhancing the interfaces of these modules to take advantage of the new
features (new use cases to be realized).
This integration approach is aligned with INES Cloud architecture and will allow the
platform to automatically take advantage of any future updates or upgrades offered
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by the developer community on these Open Source components.
4.7.2 Kiunsys Project Results
Founded in 2011, in less than 4 years, Kiunsys has become one of the main players
in the Smart Cities market and ITS industry. Indeed Kiunsys’ technologies have
been adopted by more than 25 Italian Municipalities (Florence, Milan, Verona,
Mantua, Pisa, Naples, etc.), experiencing a churn rate of 0% so far and reaching
some stunning figures of market penetration in Italy:
• Over 5 million people covered by Kiunsys services.
• 1M RFID mobility passes distributed (parking, LTZ, tourist busses, daily
permits, etc.).
• 1M mobility permits managed (parking, LTZ, disabled, tour busses).
• Over 44.751.508 events detected by our parking spot sensors.
• 100k electronic Blue Badges for disabled.
• 625, 000 sanctions issued with Kiunsys’ technology.
• 25,000 parking fees paid through smartphones
Further accomplishments are:
• 505, 000€ raised in seed capital (Oct 2015).
• Mentioned among the best tech providers of smart parking solutions in
strategic analysis of Smart Parking Market in EU and North America.
• Partner in a H2020 Smart Cities and Communities Lighthouse Project with
London, Lisbon, Milan.
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5 EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS:
ENERGY
5.1 OEEX Project
OEEX stands for Open Energy Exchange and this basically names OEEX leading
vision: create a demand side peer-to-peer energy market where everybody can sell
and purchase energy at flexible tariffs. To enable customers to synchronize their
energy consumption to the green energy generation we have developed the OEEX
app and the OEEX smart plug. The next project’s challenges will be to extend the
features of the products for better user experiences. When there is lot sunshine in
the neighbourhood, solar systems generate more green energy than is actually
needed at those times. The excess green electricity is passed on into the public
power grid where it causes a lot of problems. If the customer had more information
on when and how much green electricity is actually being produced in his
neighbourhood, he could run his household appliances at those time and thus
increase the proportion of green electricity in his power consumption.
Figure 25: OEEX logo
Table 27 OEEX project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Hamburg, Germany Open Energy Exchange http://www.oeex.org 2016
5.1.1 OEEX Project and FIWARE
This energy SAAS solution leverages on the Internet of Things (IoT) approach. The
back end which manages communication between the OEEX App and the OEEX
Smart Plug is based on micro services. These were developed using REST APIs
within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). FIWARE provided an interesting way
to facilitate merging of different services to support end to end data
streams required to enable the functionality of the OEEX platform. FIWARE
Generic Enablers were leveraged to include Orion Context Broker in order to
distribute data to different services and POI Data Provider to hold and distribute
Point of Interest (POI) data and KeyRock to enable security.
5.1.2 OEEX Project Results
OEEX commenced technological research activities in November 2014, as part of
university studies. In February 2015, OEEX secured a FIWARE Grant under the
SpeedUp! Europe Accelerator as part of the FI-PPP Phase 3 Programme to develop
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a first version of the application on smart plug prototypes and undertake further
market analysis. Over the past 3 months, the newest OEEX App has been
developed to facilitate prosumers and consumers in Germany to identify and select
green energy plants in their vicinity. This is connected to the smart plug and users
can control the smart plug depending on the level of green energy production in
their area. Electricity suppliers grid operation and prosumers can see the production
and demand data of the local plants and the electricity patterns at an aggregate
level for consumers using the platform. Consumers can see usage patterns within
their own home. The public release of the app was in April 2016, market
integration functionality in October 2016 and release of the OEEX P2P Market is
planned in Q1 2017. Market integration functionality refers to the ability to bill
consumers based on information validated by metering operators. This allows
decisions to be made by the platform in relation to leveraging the best available
price for energy by turning devices on and off at appropriate times.
5.2 AugWind Project
AugWind offers a huge storage device for compressed air. Compressed air has
several applications but mostly in large industrial plants as a buffer between the
compressors and the machines that consume air which will result in energy savings
that can reach up to 40%, yes 40%. And in terms of Compressed Air Energy
Storage that is, a battery: when you have an excessive amount of electricity you
compress air into our tank, and when you need it back as electricity, you release
the air through a turbine. By the way, the idea of using compressed air tanks in this
manner is not unique, but the new and interesting part is to have an underground
elastic tank that uses the soil geo-mechanical properties to hold the forces
involved. This means that our tank does not need to be strong or thick by itself,
because we use the ground itself as a “wall”, which is a very robust and large wall,
resulting in a very cost effective solution.
Figure 26: AugWind logo
Table 28 AugWind Project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Israel Or Yogev Phd, Amir Chetsrony, MSc, Daniel Widerker
http://www.aug-wind.com 2016
5.2.1 AugWind Project Results
On one hand, the project aims to provide a solution that saves a lot of money for
industrial plants which is a cost effective solution for large volumes. At the same
time, they intend to develop a viable storage solution for renewable energy sources
as well as traditional generation units. The project team started with a
segmentation of the industrial potential clients, 1-to-1 meetings are underway to
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understand prospects’ needs and what the problems are and what makes them
relevant clients and early adaptors. The project expects to have more than ten
installations with at least one overseas in 2017.
5.3 Beeta Project
Beeta, the solution developed by Tera for energy savings, aims to manage and
improve the energy efficiency in homes and small buildings. Through the
monitoring of the user’s energy consumption (or production from PV plant if any)
and from the elaborating environmental data also coming from installed sensors
(gathered in the field from the Beeta gateway), Beeta provides (by APP) users with
custom indexes and suggestions useful in increasing their energy consumption
awareness and improve energy usage. In a full automation version, the system takes care also of appliances monitoring and control.
The gateway integrates the most common technologies used in a smart home
environment and it is ready to be expanded with new technologies based on
customer needs and future market trends. The user specific indexes and suggestion
are made by proprietary algorithms, which are able to provide users with
information such as: detailed consumptions profiling and classification, alerts for
overloads and peak savings, appliances and devices faults/derating. The mobile APP
is linked to the gateway in order to have both digital and physical engagement by the users.
Figure 27: Beeta logo
Table 29 Beeta project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Bari, Italy Tera srl www.terasrl.it/en/ 2015
5.3.1 Tera Project and FIWARE
FIWARE technology has been implemented in different steps in Beeta. Currently,
Beeta implements the following FIWARE enablers: Publish/Subscribe Context
Broker; Complex Event Processing (CEP); Wirecloud GE; IDAS GE and Flume
Cygnus GE. It is used for gathering data from the gateway and makes them
available to the Orion Context broker and related subscribed services. Data
elaborated from CEP GE, based on proprietary algorithms, are sent back to the
Context Broker for further interaction with users (desk SW, mobile APP). The main
benefits offered by FIWARE include flexibility and interoperability with other
platforms. Being open source, FIWARE makes the tools integration easier and
allows to easily overcoming the problem of Vendor-lock-in.
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5.3.2 Tera Project Results
Beeta allows to maximise the return on investment on PV plants and to get real
savings by means of the user’s behaviours changes in daily energy consumptions.
Benefits for users are in terms of energy savings (cheaper bills), CO2 emissions
reduction and for the prosumers (owners of Photovoltaic plant with power
<100kWp), low production costs and higher profits. TERA estimated that
buildings/houses without photovoltaic system can save up to 200€ per year on their
bills, while the savings increase is up to 400€ per year, in the case there is also a
photovoltaic system. Beeta is currently undergoing a pilot phase in Bari city, and it
has been installed in private and public buildings and PV plants. In the coming
months, a refinement of the SW will be implemented based on feedback from the
field.
5.4 FINESCE Project
Smart Grids have been slower to roll out than originally forecasted, mainly due to
the high cost of deployment in the distribution network. FINESCE has developed a
radical solution based on low cost computing, software communications and system
layers by utilising Future Internet technologies to reduce software development
costs.
• Energy services have been static for many years, with little functional
innovation occurring of the type that would benefit consumers.
• The gap between complex and inhomogeneous utility infrastructures and the
world of software driven service development, often led by small companies,
could not be greater, and will not be bridged without the development of a
standardised platform, as proposed by the FINESCE project. Such a platform
will be expensive and difficult to develop unless Future Internet technologies
are deployed to increase standardisation, reduce costs and product
development times.
Figure 28: FINESCE logo
Table 30 FINESCE project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
7 trials in 7 cities
29 partners including ICT companies, energy operators, manufacturers, SMEs, researchers
www.finesce.eu 2015
5.4.1 FINESCE Project and FIWARE
FIWARE as a key node of the project was used in all the FINESCE trials. Advantages
of using FIWARE in the energy sector are: the ready-to-use software components
are easy-to-implement, integration into other software system is easily possible,
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and investment costs are low. FIWARE is easily applicable in different scenarios and
use cases through the FINESCE API. In the area of energy applications, this concept
is rather revolutionary since currently closed proprietary software systems
dominate the market for utilities.
5.4.2 FINESCE Project Results
To test the applicability of FIWARE in the context of a Smart Energy system, the
FINESCE partners implemented seven different trial sites all over Europe. Every one
of these trial sites showed the feasibility of using FIWARE for a specific Smart
Energy solution that will become increasingly important with the transition to an
energy system mainly based on renewable energies.
5.5 BD4BS Project
Seventy per cent of renewable energy facilities do not match the production they
were designed for. The issue is not just a single problem causing this performance
problem but multiple issues related with operations and maintenance that reduce
performance and put a business at risk. BD4BS created a platform that uses
predictive machine learning algorithms and techniques in existing large datasets
that generate recommendations that optimise the operations and maintenance in a
way that maximises the energy generation in renewable facilities. The company
provides energy production optimization services for the photovoltaic industry
through the analysis of monitoring, operations, maintenance and external data to
audit energy production at the minimum possible level. This is based in machine
learning and predictive analytics algorithms which then generate recommendations
for the O&M team to maximize the energy production, standardisation, reduce costs
and product development times.
Figure 29: BD4BS logo
Table 31 BD4BS project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Madrid, Spain Luis Mª Barreiro Abraira, Andrés Umaña, Miguel Ángel Ayuso
www.bd4bs.com 2016
5.5.1 BD4BS Project and FIWARE
FIWARE technology has provided BD4BS with an impressive big data IT platform.
For the project’s technology solution, it has been key in speeding up and supporting the first steps for us as an analytics start-up.
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5.5.2 BD4BS Project Results
BD4BS launched an Alpha Tester program, for which ENEL has been one of the
most important participants. They expected to have a full operational engine and 5
additional references by end of 2016 – and plan to open an office in the US in Q2
2017 and at the same time progress in EMEA. And in 2018 they will open a new
Asia Pac office.
5.6 Trafisense Project
Trafisense provides 24×7 real-time monitoring of dry-type transformers through
online sensors. In addition several local environmental attributes are recorded. The
result is a concise, always up-to-date view of the transformer’s status. Trafisense
uses proprietary machine-learning algorithms to estimate high-risk situations in
dry-type transformers. Critical conditions are detected long before they manifest
and the engineering team is notified through mobile messaging and e-mail
providing enough time to assess the situation and schedule corrective action. Trafisense does not just display statistics leaving the deciphering job to the
customer. The service generates detailed actionable insights leading maintenance
engineers to the root problem and recommending specific maintenance actions. In
addition to the daily and weekly automated reports, customers receive regular
summary reports for each monitored transformer by a team of in-house experts.
Figure 30: Trafisense logo
Table 32 Trafisense project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
Greece Enel, Accellerace https://trafisense.com 2016
5.6.1 Trafisense Project and FIWARE
The FIWARE technology is integrated in Trafisense system to process the data
collected in the cloud and generate appropriate reports and alerts. Using existing
FIWARE components, they managed to quickly deliver their prototype infrastructure
and do more work on the domain-specific problem rather than fighting
implementation issues that FIWARE has already covered.
5.6.2 Trafisense Project Results
Trafisense expects to have at least 4 installations by the end of 2017 and develop
and release the next version of their minimal viable product. This will lead them to
financing opportunities and allow growth through strategic partnerships with
utilities and transportation, sensor manufacturing and dry-type transformer
maintenance companies.
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5.7 SolarBrush Project Aerial Power Ltd is first to introduce a drone-based method for the cleaning of solar
panels. Their drones make their most significant contribution towards increasing the
yield and viability of solar farms in arid regions of the world. The main factor in
deteriorating panel efficiency is the build-up of dust on the surface of glass panels.
And by keeping solar panels clean you can increase the yield and viability of solar
farms. Aerial Power’s SolarBrush drone is designed to raise the efficiency of solar
power production globally. Their target markets are the desert regions of the world,
which are found largely within the so-called Sunbelt countries – i.e. those lying
between 15° north and 15° south of the equator. In hot and arid regions, the
maintenance costs of solar panels can be increased by up to 70%. We can reduce
that significantly, and at the same time increase energy production by up to 30%
per month.
Figure 31: SolarBrush logo
Table 33 SolarBrush project Key Information
Location Partners Website Year Launch
UK Aerial Power ltd
https://www.aerialpower.com/solarbrush/ 2016
5.7.1 SolarBrush Project and FIWARE
FIWARE will enable SolarBrush to implement the drones’ connectivity to the
Internet of Things. Specifically, it will enable us to gather weather data from
various locations and optimize the deployment of the drones with the weather
forecast. The drones can therefore respond to a sand storm, after which a
tremendous amount of solar power production would be lost.
5.7.2 SolarBrush Project Results
SolarBrush has started a dialogue with Endesa. During the acceleration program
SolarBrush specifically appreciated the focus on the “MVP” (Minimum Viable
Product), and the programme managers.
The acceleration program provided the funds and resources to advance the
development of the SolarBrush drone to a stage that it can be deployed at the pilot
customer’s site. The pilot experience will build evidence to show that cleaning solar
panels with the SolarBrush drone increases electricity production significantly, and
at the same time saves on cleaning costs. This will be the driver to implement the
solution across more solar plants.
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6 MEXICAN SUCCESS STORIES ANALYSIS
6.1 Mexico FIWARE Lab Node
One of the main areas of interest for INFOTEC, Tecnologico de Monterrey, CUDI and
other key actors in ICT in Mexico is the Internet at infrastructure level (clusters and
communications) and at application level (web applications, cloud computing, Big
Data). With the objective of using the FIWARE Platform to capture new
opportunities derived from Future Internet technologies, an association between
México and the European Commission was promoted, giving as a result the creation
of the Mexican FIWARE Lab node in 2015.
To hold the Mexican FIWARE Lab Node, the Future Internet National Laboratory was
created which consists of 704 cores, 5.41 TB RAM y 82.1 TB Hard Disk, becoming
the second and most important FIWARE Lab node and the first instance of the
FIWARE Platform in Latin-America. The Mexican Node is hosted in the INFOTEC
Data Center with a Tier III, the most advanced Data Center in the Mexican
Government.
The Mexican Node has been designed taking into account the infrastructure of the
Node in Europe in order to ensure the data, operation and network interoperability.
The Node can be seen as the result of a very successful cooperation between
Mexican and European experts in cloud, networks, security and software and
hardware infrastructures.
The Mexican Node hosts an account for users of Mexican institutions, besides
accounts for Spain, Portugal, Italy and Latin America. Currently, a commercial Node
is being configured to host commercial applications based on FIWARE technologies
in Mexico and Europe.
6.2 FIWARE Training in Mexico
As part of the FIWARE Mexico project, a community of people trained in FIWARE
has been created as the result of the train the trainers programme.
The 4-stage programme “Train the trainers in FIWARE” was devised bearing in
mind the high-level goal of maximising the knowledge transfer from Europe to
Mexico.
• The first stage took place before the project started. The initial FIWARE training for developers took place between the 20th to the 22nd July 2015,
organized by INFOTEC and supported by the FIWARE development team,
who traveled from Spain to Mexico to train members of the Mexican
industry, academy and government agencies interested in Future Internet
and Smart City subjects. The event included training sessions in FIWARE
main components, as well as conferences to present FIWARE, solutions for
Smart Cities and the plans led by INFOTEC regarding the promotion
of FIWARE. Among the exhibitors was the FIWARE Chief Architect Juan José
Hierro and the FIWARE Node Leader in Mexico Hugo Estrada. The event
showed the big interest of Mexican institutions on FIWARE technologies, with
more than 120 participants to the event from several states in Mexico.
• The second stage was the knowledge transfer from Europe to Mexico by
means of tech training sessions to 12 Mexicans experts attending the first
FIWARE Summit that took place in December 2016 in Malaga, Spain.
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• The third stage was the knowledge transfer of the FIWARE technology to a
team of 10 developers of INFOTEC that have the skills to offer support to the
next training activities on FIWARE technology scheduled in Work Package 1.
• The fourth stage consisted of knowledge transfer of the FIWARE technology
to a team of 25 people from a selection of relevant institutions in Mexico in
an event that took place in 2017 on the premises of INFOTEC in Mexico City
on February 15-16 and March 8-9. This team will in turn propagate the
previously acquired knowledge to members of their institutions and to other
actors in the local ecosystems who are interested in knowing and using the
FIWARE technology.
6.3 Environmental initiatives with FIWARE
A software application has been developed with the objective of performing
environmental/pollution monitoring in Mexico City and providing proper data
visualization useful for citizens. The application is based on the cloud capabilities of
FIWARE, which enables to connect sensors through standard specifications and to
provide software components to store sensor data, enabling data analysis and
querying. At the time, the application obtains data from fixed sensors (based on the
IoT approach) located in different points of the city. This application was developed
by joining the capabilities of INFOTEC and CentroGeo public research centers.
The data about pollution and environmental information is captured each 10
minutes and stored in the FIWARE cloud. The system can use the data stored in the
database since 1984 with thousands of measurements for several pollutants.
6.4 SmartSDK Project Initiatives
6.4.1 Healthcare initiative with FIWARE
As part of the SmartSDK project, a software application in the healthcare domain
has been developed, which aims to facilitate the harmonization and sharing of
mobile sensing datasets for healthcare. This application focuses on mobile devices
that collects sensor data from physical tests conducted by following clinical
protocols to assess the risk of falls in older adults.
The developed application has been designed for research purposes, thus,
parameter of interest (associated to the risk of falling) are analyzed a posteriori and
raw sensor data is kept for further inspection.
6.4.2 Smart City initiative with FIWARE
As part of the SmartSDK project, an application in the Smart City domain (called
Green Route) has been developed. It focuses on supporting the citizen mobility in
high polluted cities, like Mexico City, with the aim of improving the life quality of
citizens and fostering environmental friendly behaviors by citizens. The end-user
perspective is shortly summarised below.
The objective of Green Route is to help the final user to determine the best route to
follow to reach a destination, taking into account the user profile (such as health
conditions), and the user preferences, such as transport type. Green Route
proposes the ideal route for the user, avoiding routes with high levels of pollution,
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traffic jam or pollen, etc., allowing for instance, to obtain the preferred routes for
people with respiratory diseases.
6.4.3 Security Initiative with FIWARE
As part of the SmartSDK project, an application in the security domain has been
developed. It aims to support the security guard to prevent risk situations and
consequently improve the quality of life of the people who live in the surveillance
area. The Smart Security application focuses on detecting and analyzing security
risk such as, theft, access controls, people detection, fights, crowd analysis, etc.,
through the combination of video cameras and mobile sensors, in both, indoor and
outdoor scenarios, for instance, parking lots and buildings.
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7 FIWARE PLATFORM BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES
7.1 FIWARE Benefits
We asked the projects to highlight the key benefits provided by the FIWARE
program and the respondents gave prominence to the openness technology
platform, followed by the funding opportunities provided.
Figure 32: Reasons for choosing the FIWARE Program
7.2 FIWARE Challenges
We asked the projects to highlight also the challenges they faced in being part of
the FIWARE program, using the FIWARE platform, both from a technical and
organizational point of view.
7.2.1 Technical Challenges
▪ Initial bugs that were required to be solved and contribution to the open
source community, especially in some Generic Enablers such as marketplace
and some agents from the Orion context Broker.
▪ Lack of documentation, some enablers, both specific and generic, were still
not very mature, some assigned FIWARE Lab nodes were not up-to-date and
not all enablers were finally available.
▪ Encoding issues, incomplete implementation of the NGSI.
▪ Poor quality of Generic Enablers (in 2015 Dec- 2016 Jan), application used
to crash due to memory issues.
▪ Lack of documentation, several enablers not ready for production.
▪ Bureaucracy and slow process.
▪ Hosting environment not always stable.
▪ Very immature implementations.
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▪ A lot of learning process by trial and error.
7.2.2 Organizational Challenges
▪ Bureaucracy and slow process.
▪ Limited support by company providers of enablers.
▪ Balance the technology understanding between the team.
▪ Difficult to understand who is who – FIWARE Portal.
▪ Service and maintenance support largely lacking.
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8 PROJECTS’ SUCCESS FACTORS AND GOOD
PRACTICES
8.1 Projects’ success factors
The projects’ success has been analysed from two different perspectives:
1. Success in being selected within the FIWARE program.
2. Success of the projects’ outcomes and activities.
8.1.1 Projects’ success factors within the FIWARE program selection
Based on the insights gathered through the questionnaires, the projects describe,
as key success factors - at the proposal stage – to be “Project’s Implementation”
followed by the “Project Impact”. They consider these two aspects of their
proposals as the key success factors in being selected for funding by the FIWARE
program (through FIWARE hubs and accelerators). The positive and concrete
development of the projects analysed, confirmed that a grounded proposal
submitted from the beginning, and often became viable SMEs businesses with an
encouraging market response.
The team’s experience and professional background was also highlighted as an
important component, confirming the highly specialized human resources
successfully involved in FIWARE community. This matches with the importance
given to the FIWARE ecosphere regarding knowledge and relationship with peers in
the community.
8.1.2 Projects’ key factors for successful outputs
We also tried to identify the reason for the success of these projects and it was
clear technical and marketing skills need to work in concert. The conceptual
framework can be streamlined as follows:
Phase 1: Conceptualization, the idea
• Project Mission
• Client Consultation
• Scalability and adaptability
Action Implications for the project’s leadership:
1. The project declared in their proposals, a clearly specified and on-target
project mission.
2. The project consulted with important key prospective partners and clients
and the relevance of their solution at the very outset of the project’s life
cycle.
3. Since the conceptualization, the solution was framed as scalable and
adaptable to multiple markets and environments.
Phase 2: Planning
• Project Mission
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• Strong leadership
• Market/Stakeholders Acceptance
• Urgency
Action Implications for the project’s leadership:
1. They continue to refine and specify the project mission by staying on target.
2. Insist on management and stakeholders’ support in terms of networking and
funding resources.
3. Projects went beyond client consultation and addressed the important issue
of client acceptance. They kept asking themselves the question “What
further technical and strategic implementation can we take to help prospects
test and buy our solution further down the line?”
4. A perceived sense of urgency among their team was created.
Phase 3: Execution
• Project Mission
• Trouble-shooting/The crisis response
• Project Schedule/Plans
• Technical Tasks
• Client Consultation
Action Implications for the project leadership:
1. Successful FIWARE projects continued to look back to the Project Mission for
direction with the ability to quickly adapt to environment, market and
technology changes.
2. Projects started trouble-shooting at an early stage. Procedures were in place
for detecting and correcting the errors, backlogs, and integrations issues
that crop up.
3. They developed and adhered to a comprehensive schedule and/or set of
plans for the implementation. They aimed at achieving the first comer
advantage knowing that the market is fast and the competitive arena is
challenging.
4. The execution of technological development is among the dominant success
factors for FIWARE projects. Highly skilled technology experts capable of
working through the integrations and development issues, collaborating with
the FIWARE community and external partners make the difference.
5. Projects cannot forget the market. All through their projects, they
maintained an effective two-way communication flow with the user.
From a marketing perspective, the main reason for success seems to be the “right
time for the right product”, combined with a short time to market deployment and
highly flexible solution which is adaptable to multiple scenarios. This allowed them
to strategically intercept the market needs: this is clearly the case in MVMANT,
QROUTES, and INBIOLAB. These projects were able to sell their solutions at a very
early stage of their start-up development and in the INBIOLAB case, to attract the
interest of a multinational, which acquired them and will further advance their
medical solution effort.
From a FIWARE technical perspective it seems relevant to highlight:
• Importance of integration of different technical elements and integration of
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the work of the partners involved.
• Importance of the implementation of large-scale experimental facility along
with convincing and successfully completed testbed which can contribute to
the launch of the product in the market. A successful pilot case gives
visibility and gains the market’s trust.
• Importance of usability of the platform for the end users, where end users
could be consumers and/or corporate/government clients (e.g. Smart Cities
applications).
• The market positive acceptance of the technological solution (combination of
market interest, prospect sales; and number of contracts signed, closed
sales and acquisition by a major market player) go hand in hand with
successful pilot testing confirming the technological reliability of the
proposed solution.
8.2 Good Practices
When asked about good practices and advice for future FIWARE initiatives, the
interviewed project leaders answered unanimously: “Just do it!.”
Zooming then in more detailed indications, the main critical factors to be accounted
for are the following:
• A project must be developed fast in order not to lose momentum and market opportunities, whether it is FIWARE-based or not. But especially with innovative technologies such as FIWARE, timing is a critical aspect to be considered.
• FIWARE is an open source community, based on a solid open technology
with a lot of potential, but an in-depth analysis needs to be conducted to
understand and select the proper enablers and tools, before designing any
application based on it.
• As an open source community FIWARE relies on the contribution of all its
members to continue developing its ecosystem. To be active players of the
open source community is key to success both for FIWARE and for its
adopters.
o Be aware of potential bugs, analyse them and contribute to fixing
them for the overall platform development.
o Being active in the community increases market visibility and
facilitates the creation of technical and business partnerships.
• It is necessary to make an effort on market analysis and customers’ insights
to develop solutions matching the market’s needs. Furthermore, the initial
solutions’ prototype shall be already a minimal viable product, whose
performances can be measured and reiterated.
• Funding as a complement to open technologies and access to the FIWARE
community, especially for small players, can become a key differentiator.
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9 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS
The work conducted within WP4, and more specifically by Task 4.1 FIWARE know-
how, success stories and lessons learned Analysis and Transfer, in the first nine
months of the project, as described in this document, aims at creating increased
confidence in and facilitate understanding and uptake of FIWARE by documenting
success stories and lessons learned so far both in Europe and Mexico.
It is important to underline the challenges faced when mapping FIWARE good
practices and critical success factors from Europe to Mexico, mainly:
• The diversity of the boundary conditions in Europe and Mexico, in terms of
overall ICT maturity, and the limited reach, so far, of the FIWARE concepts
and technologies (in Mexico). This is indeed one of the core activities that
FIWARE Mexico and SmartSDK are helping with and that have been
successfully pursuing in these first 9 months of collaboration [2]. This is
planned to go on and help increasing visibility and overall adoption of
FIWARE in Mexico.
• The different degree of maturity of FIWARE in the two contexts. In Europe
FIWARE has a longer history and a solid foundation especially considering
that the EC, and more specifically the FI-PPP programme, has invested a
substantial amount of funding for stimulating the uptake of FIWARE from
innovative SMEs and Start-ups. In Europe, this has led to engagement of 16
Accelerators in Europe and a total of 985 proposals submitted with 788
organisations financed across Europe [1]. In addition, key industrial
stakeholders in Europe have been key strongly pushing for FIWARE to
become a de facto standard choice for open software development leading to
the creation of the FIWARE Foundation [3]. In this respect, while it was
possible to identify and investigate a critical
• The lack of technical details available to analyse and document the success
stories, which can be attributed to several factors, including lack of time for
SMEs/Startuppers to dedicate to this kind of activity, especially now that
FIWARE funding is not available any more, and confidentiality aspects
related to business development of their products and solutions.
In this context, the information collected so far provides a solid basis of
understanding in relation to what FIWARE Mexico is helping with that is the
activation of and open innovation ecosystem starting from the FIWARE Lab node in
Mexico. In particular, based on the work done so far, the planned next steps are to:
• Organise a dedicated workshop with the FIWARE MX-EU Engagement
Working Groups to discuss, validate and refine the outcomes of this analysis.
• Create a “Get Involved” brochure that provides concrete indications to
Mexican players on how to approach the FIWARE Lab node in Mexico and
more broadly on how to adopt FIWARE technologies.
• Bring selected FIWARE success stories in Europe and Mexico together either
at a dedicated workshop to be co-located with the next edition of the
FIWARE Summit or at the second edition of the Open FIWARE Camp.
• Continue populating the online FIWARE success stories, as new ones might
emerge.
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ANNEX 1
Complete set of questions included in the Questionnaire distributed online:
http://bit.ly/2ro6EDr
1. Your project is focused on which of the following areas? *
• Transport
• eHealth
• Smart Cities
• Energy & Environment
• Other:
2. When did you submit your FIWARE project? *
3. When did you launch your FIWARE project in the market? *
4. Who are the key partners of your project? *
• Please list names and affiliation
5. What is your project's website address? *
6. Please briefly describe your project *
• Please include goals and challenges of your project
7. Where is your project based? *
• Please detail City and Country
8. What did make you choose FIWARE platform for your project? * Please assign a value from 1 to 5 to the following items. 5 is "Important" and 1
is "Not relevant".
A) Funding Opportunity B) Open source Technology Components C) Networking Opportunity D) Trainings and workshops program
9. What was the key factor which determined your success in being selected as a
FIWARE project? *
• Project's Excellence (consistent with call's objective, excellent technical and scientific approach)
• Proposal's completeness
• Project's impact
• Project's implementation
• Previous FIWARE ecosphere experience
• Team experience and professional background
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10. Which FIWARE components did you use? * Please list the FIWARE enablers which you used in developing your project.
11. Which were the major benefits using FIWARE? *
12. Which were the major technical issues you faced using FIWARE? *
13. Which were the major organizational issues you faced using FIWARE? *
14. How would you describe the success of your project? *
• Pilot testing successfully completed
• Market interest
• Market's penetration of your solution
• Profitability of the project
• Market share after 1 year in the market
• Acquisition of your company by a major market player
• Number of contracts signed
15. How would you describe the success of your project? * Please specify your project's success indicators (e.g. contracts signed, leads
developed etc)
16. Which was the key success factor of your project in the market place? *
• Innovative Solution
• Visibility given by FIWARE ecosphere
• Competitive pricing
• Solution scalability
• Partners' Networking
• Intercepting the market's need at the right time
• Intercepting investors' interest
17. Based on your experience, what could you have done better developing your FIWARE project?
18. In 10 words what would be the key advice you would give to a project approaching FIWARE?
19. Are you available for a phone interview?
• Yes
• No If yes, can you provide your skype details?
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REFERENCES
[1] Future Internet Impact Assurance, Deliverable D2.4 Update of Impact Assessment and Forecast, http://www.fi-impact.eu/page/deliverables/ - 30.06.2016
[2] FIWARE Mexico, Deliverable D4.1 - Synergies, Coordination and Liaisons Strategy and Plan, June 2017
[3] FIWARE Foundation, https://www.fiware.org/foundation/
[4] https://www.fiware.org/success_stories
[5] http://myfiwarestory.fiware.org/