FIWARE

CHALLENGE: Leveraging city-wide data for global outcomes.

Cities and territories are responsible for delivering their residents a good quality of life despite growing and complex environmental, economic, and social challenges. To succeed, city officials and public sector decision-makers need access to high-quality technology to help them make the right decisions for both the citizens and the environment.

SOLUTION: Creating sustainable, open technology on a global scale.

To solve this issue and scale it to others worldwide, FIWARE and HOPU worked together with the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs team on a purpose-driven engagement to build an easy-to-deploy, highly scalable, production-ready, cloud-native, open-source smart city platform based on FIWARE open standards, designed to improve livability and environmental sustainability.

"We have transitioned from a complex process of deployment that takes days into a more automatic process that takes just minutes. Solutions that were previously only available to large cities will now be available for any city in the world, thanks to the combination of FIWARE technologies and Red Hat solutions," said Juanjo Hierro, FIWARE CTO.

While technology was the core component of the project, the collaboration and workflows between the three companies also needed to move seamlessly in order to succeed. The Open Innovation Labs team introduced open practices like impact mapping, event storming, and pair programming to align the team towards shared goals, prioritize outcomes, and integrate and improve this smart city technical solution.

"This is not a purely technological project, thanks to working on culture, processes, and technology. And, thanks to putting engineers, business people, and the cities themselves in the same room, we manage to encourage these cities to become more ecological and sustainable," said David Zamorano, Engagement Lead at Open Innovation Labs.

The Smart Cities platform deploys efficiently using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, with an architecture that suits a hybrid cloud approach. The combination of Red Hat OpenShift, FIWARE technology, and the HOPU air quality solution allows the Smart Cities platform to produce tangible benefits right from the beginning while being expandable through additional future applications covering other critical areas such as traffic, water sampling, and noise for any city in the world.

(*) Note: Now, HOP UBIQUITOUS SL is part of LIBELIUM GROUP since its acquisition in June 2022.