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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

Mapping FIWARE good practices and critical success factors

WP4_D4.2 FIWARE Mexico of 64

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



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

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



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



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



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



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



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.



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.



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

https://www.fiware.org/success_stories

http://bit.ly/2ro6EDr



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



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



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


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



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.



Figure 3: Oviva logo

Table 5 Oviva Key Information


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



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


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.



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


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

http://www.demcon.nl/



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


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.).



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

http://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers/publishsubscribe-context-broker-orion-context-broker



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.



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


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.



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)



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


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.



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


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.



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).



Figure 10: The Control Centre of the Eindhoven Stratumseind 2.0 Lab

Table 12 Eindhoven Stratumseind 2.0 lab Key Information


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



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


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!



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


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.



Figure 13: The Smart Cities Lab India logo

Table 15 The Smart Cities Lab India Information


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



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.



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



Table 17 MVMANT Information


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


Valencia, Spain Telefónica http://vlci.inndeavalencia.com/?lang=en 2014

http://vlci.inndeavalencia.com/?lang=en



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



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


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)

http://www.smartsantander.eu/



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.



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


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.



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

http://utm.aero/



Table 21 Connect Robotics Key Information


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



Table 22 Fargo project Key Information


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



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



Table 23 OpenMove project Key Information


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



Figure 22: FLOUD logo

Table 24 FLOUD project Key Information


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



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


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

http://www.eu-startups.com/

https://mamacrowd.com/projects/108/scuter?tab=profilo



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


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



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.



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


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



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


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



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


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.



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


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,



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


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.



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


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.



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


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.



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.



• 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,



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.



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.



▪ 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.



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



• 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



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.



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.



ANNEX 1

Complete set of questions included in the Questionnaire distributed online:


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




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?



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/

http://www.fi-impact.eu/page/deliverables/

https://www.fiware.org/foundation/

https://www.fiware.org/success_stories

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