FIWARE

General Presentation

Avril 2018

Ahmed BEN ALI – Research & Innovation Director

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FIWARE offers a Cloud Openstack environment and a set of open and standard APIs which

facilitate the connection to the Internet of Object, the processing, big data analysis and real

time media; furthermore, it offers advanced functionalities for user interactions.

Introduction to FIWARE

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FIWARE: WHO WE ARE (1/2)

2009/10

• Inception of the “Future Internet Public-Private Partnership” (FI-PPP) by the European Commission and European industry

2011/12

• Development of the generic software components a.k.a. “Generic Enablers” by leading European industry and research organizations

• Proof of concept in a few sectors (smart cities, mobility, energy, environment, logistics, media & content, security)

2013/14

•Development of the generic components continues: FIWARE catalog becomes available

•FIWARE nodes are set up: FIWARE Lab and FIWARE Ops become available

•Specific components become available, specific applications are developed based on the FIWARE components in various sectors (smart cities, health, transport, energy and environment, agriculture, media & content, manufacturing, logistics, education)

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FIWARE: WHO WE ARE (2/2)

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2014/15

•Launch of FIWARE Accelerate: start-ups and SMEs start developing applications and solutions based on FIWARE

•First real scale test for FIWARE: training and support become available

•FIWARE expands beyond Europe: a FIWARE node is made available in Mexico

2015/16

•An open source community is created around FIWARE components

•FIWARE plays a key role in the Open & Agile Smart Cities Initiative

•First commercial FIWARE nodes become available

•FIWARE Lab nodes in Brazil, a FIWARE ecosystem is built in Chile; First FIWARE-based demo in Canada with University of Toronto and SAVI; FIWARE is a Partner of GCTC2016

2016/17

• The FIWARE Foundation is created• The FIWARE Mundus Committee is launched• FIWARE ecosystems are being set up in Europe and beyond (Latin America, Africa,

North America, Asia)

• The number of application and solution developers is increasing all over the world

• +25 Innovation hubs created all over the European continent, soon expanding worldwide

• …And more to be confirmed!

FIWARE Key Figures

R&Dinvestment

≈460 M$

SMEs andStart-Ups

FIWARE Accelerate

>1000FIWARE

Lab Nodes

>20

Cities involvedOpen & Agile Smart Cities

>100

already raised from investors

≈20 M$

Leading European

organizationsfrom

27 countries

≈ 200

Accelerators

>16

iHubs

>25

FIWARE-based

Solutions & Apps

>600

>2500Developers

Lab/Instances/Commercial

Nodes

>6

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FIWARE: General Architecture

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Application 1

Application 2

Application n

Clo

ud

Reso

urc

es (V

M, R

AM

, HD

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Data sets

Public enablers

Enabler 1

Enabler 2

Enabler n

Private enablers

Enabler 1

Developers

End usersEnabler

2Enabler

nData set

providers

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How to develop an application on top of

FIWARE ?

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FIWARE

GEs

SMART City

Apps

SMART Factory

Apps

SMART

Agrifood Apps

Domain

specific

enablers

Some

Vertical

Sectors

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FIWARE Lab: Experimentation

Environment

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FIWARE Web Sites

All resources and info available at: www.fi-ware.org

Discover the Generic and Specific Enablers:

• catalogue.fi-ware.org a kind of executive summary per Generic Enabler

• edu.fi-ware.org the e-Learning platform to discover Generic Enablers

Features

• wiki.fi-ware.org the place to find many more details

Create your account on FIWARE Lab to play and test Generic Enablers

lab.fi-ware.org

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