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Telefónica, Orange Among Companies Joining the FIWARE Open Source Community for Smart Cities App Development

Telefónica, Orange Among Companies Joining the FIWARE Open Source Community for Smart Cities App Development Image Credit: Orange

TelefónicaOrangeEngineering and Atos have joined forces on an initiative towards the creation of the FIWARE Open Source Community to foster and support the evolution of standards for Smart Cities. FIWARE, an open source platform integrating a number of components making it easier to develop smart application, was created through a Public-Private Partnership between the European Commission and more than 40 organisations. 

The integration of Internet of Things(IoT), cloud and big data technologies, together with the support of open data policies, will create the conditions for a new period of intense transformation of cities into smart cities, says a joint statement from the companies. The open nature of the FIWARE specifications will give way to the creation of multiple FIWARE providers, as it circumvents the dependence on a single vendor solution.

According to the statement, FIWARE standard APIs, combined with standard data models developed together with cities and application developers, will ensure portability and interoperability of smart city applications.  At the same time, this will allow developers to build smart city applications for different cities at the same time, thus creating a market large enough to attract startups and small enterprises to create new innovative services for citizens and businesses in urban areas.

Patrice Slupowski, Vice-President of Digital Innovation, Orange
There is an incredible opportunity for European cities to take advantage of open solutions and a wide community of developers, to quickly bring digital services and innovations to their citizens”, commented .

Bruno Fabre, Executive Vice-President of Telcos, Media & Utilities in Atos
The Smart City market has proven to be a slow process. The combination of open-source solutions and a new approach for business models will unlock this new opportunity for the Third Digital Revolution.

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