FIWARE Foundation, a non-profit organization that encourages the
adoption of open standards — implemented using Open Source technologies — for
the development of smart solutions on a global basis, announces today a joint
collaboration with the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) Program
toward building an Open Source platform that facilitates secure, authenticated
and managed exchange of data amongst various data sources and consumers.
The IUDX platform is capable of harvesting data from many
sub-systems enabling application developers to build new applications and
services to help citizens. With the IUDX platform, citizens will benefit from
the availability of more innovative and cost-effective applications and
services. The cities themselves will also benefit from reduced development cost
and faster development time frames enabled by a standard platform, together
with the ability to choose vendors freely and thereby, avoid vendor lock-in.
IUDX is being used by Indian cities to harness the full potential of the
enormous data being generated across the country.
The Power Of Collaboration
This partnership will pave the way for the development of a
sustainable ecosystem around Open Source, standards-based, innovation-driven
technologies to be used in
●Joint adoption and contribution to standards: FIWARE and the IUDX Program
will collaborate on joint adoption and contribution to standards. IUDX Program
will adopt ETSI’s NGSI-LD Application Programming Interfaces (API)
specifications for its resource server, which is the same standard adopted by the FIWARE Context Broker. The
FIWARE Context Broker enables organisations — from public administrations to
private companies — to collect, manage and share context of information. It is
a dynamic system able to inform in real-time time what is currently happening
in a given city, from traffic status to air quality data. The Context Broker
technology was developed as the core component of the FIWARE Platform.
This
will allow FIWARE and the IUDX Program to benefit from a broad worldwide
developer community as well as the large number of FIWARE compatible projects.
FIWARE and the IUDX Program will collaborate on future contributions and
enhancements to the NGSI-LD specifications. They will also collaborate
on data models suitable for use in smart city applications. This work will be
done in conjunction with the ongoing joint activity between TM Forum —
an alliance of 850+ global companies working together to break down technology
and cultural barriers between digital service providers, technology suppliers,
consultancies and systems integrators — and FIWARE.
●Creation
of global application developer community: FIWARE and the IUDX Program will
collaborate on the creation of a common global application developer community
for smart city applications. The intent is that an application written for
either FIWARE or IUDX runs on either platform with minimal
modification. Applications developed on the IUDX 2.0 Platform — the deployment/ready
to use version of the platform — will be compatible with FIWARE’s APIs and
Generic Enablers, allowing such applications to be adapted and used by the
FIWARE ecosystem on a global basis.
●Use
of common components and shared Open Source code: FIWARE and the
IUDX Program will collaborate on the use of common components and shared Open Source
code. As a first step, after the adoption of NGSI-LD APIs, the IUDX
resource server will be listed on the FIWARE Catalogue as one of
its Context Brokers. FIWARE will also adapt and integrate the IUDX
Security Framework and offer it as one of its Generic Enablers. These
steps will widen the choices for FIWARE’s partners
and its growing community. The joint goal is to create a
common Open Source repository for all smart city platform components
and generic enablers, allowing cities around the world to build their own data
sharing platforms using components best suited for their environments.
Common standards for APIs and data models are at the heart of
platforms and digital infrastructures, enabling interoperability and
portability of solutions. In order to successfully make it into the market
today, new smart services and solutions must be able to securely communicate
with other services and devices, traversing a multitude of infrastructures and
systems. This way, solution providers benefit from knowing that their solutions
can be connected with other applications or pieces of software — already
developed and widely available — or that they can replicate them for multiple
customers with rather low adaptation costs.
This
collaborative approach between IUDX and FIWARE is the result of a joint
taskforce, supported by FIWARE Platinum members Trigyn
Technologies and NEC as
well as the IUDX Program’s Application Partners. This collaboration, together
with the alignment of standards, will help the IUDX Program and FIWARE
Foundation to broaden their offerings globally.
Berlin, Bangalore, November 17, 2020
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