PARTNERING TO BUILD AN OPEN SOURCE SMART CITY PLATFORM

FIWARE, HOPU, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs have built a scalable, cloud-native, open-source smart city platform to improve liveability and sustainability.

The ability to implement an IoTenabled digital twin smart city platform grants any city the power to gather relevant big data from multiple sources and extract valuable insights, driving smart decisions for the benefit of all citizens. The biggest challenge is to effectively gather and process data at a very large scale while building an easy-to-deploy solution that is scalable and secure.

To solve this issue, FIWARE and HOPU worked with the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs team on a purpose-driven engagement to build a highlyscalable, cloud-native, open-source smart city platform designed to improve liveability and environmental sustainability.

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 allow the Smart Cities platform to produce

Adrian Pickering

Regional General Manager, MENA and Enterprise Segment tangible benefits right from the beginning. l An IoT-enabled digital twin smart city platform grants any city the power to gather relevant big data from multiple sources and extract valuable insights. l The biggest challenge is to effectively gather and process data at a very large scale while building an easy-to-deploy solution. l While technology was the core component of the project, collaboration and workflows between the three companies also needed to move seamlessly. l Cities currently assume responsibility for most of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. l The Smart Cities platform deploys efficiently with an architecture that suits a hybrid cloud approach.

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It is expandable through additional future applications covering other critical areas such as traffic, water sampling, and noise for any city in the world.

While technology was the core component of the project, the collaboration and workflows between the three companies also needed to move seamlessly 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, prioritise outcomes, and integrate and improve this smart city technical solution.

The collaboration between Red Hat, FIWARE, and HOPU resulted in accelerated innovation by way of opensource technology.

FIWARE Smart Cities solution is now an attainable, scalable solution that streamlines the developer experience. This will allow other cities, individual contributors, integrators, or other tech companies to make future contributions to the Smart Cities platform by adding other use cases over time, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning components, that will evolve this solution even further.

With Red Hat open-source technologies and partner ecosystem, it is possible to build a hybrid cloud to power the smart city. The hybrid cloud can span one or more public clouds, datacentres, and edge devices near roadways, city buildings and transportation hubs.

Cities currently assume the responsibility for most of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, but they also bear the brunt of many of climate change’s effects.

Cities must provide convenient, easy-to-use services for their citizens to meet their needs. To achieve this costeffectively and at the required scale, they’ll need to leverage technology to streamline operations and use data purposefully to deliver a better quality of life to residents. Smart city technologies make it easier for local governments to do that, enable cities to reach environmental and sustainability goals, improve service delivery and use funds more effectively. n