Comment by federico.facca@martel-innovate.com :

Dear James,
Thanks for contacting FIWARE Mundus. I will discuss internally to understand who will take in charge your contact
and follow up in more details.

Meanwhile, would you be so kind to detail what type of collaboration are you looking for?

In general the FIWARE Mundus programme has networking and dissemination role. Activities we do include, e.g.:

• Provide access to information related to FIWARE and the creation of a FIWARE Lab node;
• Present FIWARE to local ecosystems;
• Gather interest from FIWARE companies to collaborate with local ecosystems;

Best,
Federico
Dr. Federico Michele Facca
Head of Martel Lab

Martel Innovate
Dorfstrasse 73 - 3073 Gümligen (Switzerland)
0041 78 807 58 38
0041 31 994 25 25
martel-innovate.com <http://martel-consulting.ch/>

> On 17 Jun 2016, at 00:16, James Holmes <james@jsent.co.za> wrote:
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I represent an SME that has been active in traffic control systems in South Africa for more than 20 years. One of our main functions has been to integrate and consolidate various sub-systems such as traffic lights and sensors, variable message signs and vehicle detectors in order to present a unified UI in the control rooms. To this end we have used our in-house developed SCADA system called JSent. For more information on JSent please see jsent.co.za. For a better overview of the traffic features there is a brochure in the downloads section.
>
> JSent is currently deployed in the main traffic centers in South Africa. In Durban, Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg. Most of the traffic status, traffic sensor data and camera feeds terminate in these control centers. With this experience, and knowledge of the local authorities, it seems that there could be a good fit between ourselves and FIWARE as far as smart city applications are concerned.
>
> This email is to explore the possibility of further collaboration with FIWARE, possibly under the Mundus program.
>
> I look forward to hearing your thoughts,
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Holmes
>
>
>
> Since January 1st, old domains won't be supported and messages sent to any domain different to @lists.fiware.org will be lost.
> Please, send your messages using the new domain (Fiware-mundus-req@lists.fiware.org) instead of the old one.
>

Comment by james@adev.co.za :

Dear Federico,

Thank you for your reply.

After further internal discussions and investigations, it appears that
the OASC initiative would be much better suited to our organisation than
Mundus.

There is enough information on the web sites for us to proceed with
introducing the OASC/FIWARE vision to the city administrators and to see
what level of interest there is.

The wheels of government can turn slowly but we hope to be in contact soon.

Kind regards,
James

On 6/17/2016 5:39 AM, Federico Michele Facca wrote:
> Dear James,
> Thanks for contacting FIWARE Mundus. I will discuss internally to
> understand who will take in charge your contact
> and follow up in more details.
>
> Meanwhile, would you be so kind to detail what type of collaboration are
> you looking for?
>
> In general the FIWARE Mundus programme has networking and dissemination
> role. Activities we do include, e.g.:
> - Provide access to information related to FIWARE and the creation of a
> FIWARE Lab node;
> - Present FIWARE to local ecosystems;
> - Gather interest from FIWARE companies to collaborate with local
> ecosystems;
>
> Best,
> Federico
>
> Dr. Federico Michele Facca
> /Head of Martel Lab/
>
> Martel Innovate
> Dorfstrasse 73 - 3073 Gümligen (Switzerland)
> 0041 78 807 58 38
> 0041 31 994 25 25
> martel-innovate.com <http://martel-consulting.ch>
>
>
>
>> On 17 Jun 2016, at 00:16, James Holmes <james@jsent.co.za
>> <james@jsent.co.za>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>
>> I represent an SME that has been active in traffic control systems in
>> South Africa for more than 20 years. One of our main functions has
>> been to integrate and consolidate various sub-systems such as traffic
>> lights and sensors, variable message signs and vehicle detectors in
>> order to present a unified UI in the control rooms. To this end we
>> have used our in-house developed SCADA system called JSent. For more
>> information on JSent please see jsent.co.za. For a better overview of
>> the traffic features there is a brochure in the downloads section.
>>
>> JSent is currently deployed in the main traffic centers in South
>> Africa. In Durban, Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg. Most of the
>> traffic status, traffic sensor data and camera feeds terminate in
>> these control centers. With this experience, and knowledge of the
>> local authorities, it seems that there could be a good fit between
>> ourselves and FIWARE as far as smart city applications are concerned.
>>
>> This email is to explore the possibility of further collaboration with
>> FIWARE, possibly under the Mundus program.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing your thoughts,
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> James Holmes
>>
>>
>>
>> Since January 1st, old domains won't be supported and messages sent to
>> any domain different to @lists.fiware.org <http://lists.fiware.org>
>> will be lost.
>> Please, send your messages using the new domain
>> (Fiware-mundus-req@lists.fiware.org
>> <Fiware-mundus-req@lists.fiware.org>) instead of the old one.
>>

Comment by federico.facca@martel-innovate.com :

Dear James,
if needed FIWARE Mundus can support you as well in the liaison with OASC. For interested countries,
we organised different bi-laterals with the Commission, EU Cities adopting FIWARE, FIWARE Foundation
representatives and Startups developing smart city solutions based on FIWARE.

Cheers,
Federico
Dr. Federico Michele Facca
Head of Martel Lab

Martel Innovate
Dorfstrasse 73 - 3073 Gümligen (Switzerland)
0041 78 807 58 38
0041 31 994 25 25
martel-innovate.com <http://martel-consulting.ch/>

> On 19 Jun 2016, at 14:51, James Holmes <james@adev.co.za> wrote:
>
> Dear Federico,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> After further internal discussions and investigations, it appears that the OASC initiative would be much better suited to our organisation than Mundus.
>
> There is enough information on the web sites for us to proceed with introducing the OASC/FIWARE vision to the city administrators and to see what level of interest there is.
>
> The wheels of government can turn slowly but we hope to be in contact soon.
>
> Kind regards,
> James
>
>
>
> On 6/17/2016 5:39 AM, Federico Michele Facca wrote:
>> Dear James,
>> Thanks for contacting FIWARE Mundus. I will discuss internally to
>> understand who will take in charge your contact
>> and follow up in more details.
>>
>> Meanwhile, would you be so kind to detail what type of collaboration are
>> you looking for?
>>
>> In general the FIWARE Mundus programme has networking and dissemination
>> role. Activities we do include, e.g.:
>> - Provide access to information related to FIWARE and the creation of a
>> FIWARE Lab node;
>> - Present FIWARE to local ecosystems;
>> - Gather interest from FIWARE companies to collaborate with local
>> ecosystems;
>>
>> Best,
>> Federico
>>
>> Dr. Federico Michele Facca
>> /Head of Martel Lab/
>>
>> Martel Innovate
>> Dorfstrasse 73 - 3073 Gümligen (Switzerland)
>> 0041 78 807 58 38
>> 0041 31 994 25 25
>> martel-innovate.com <http://martel-consulting.ch>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 17 Jun 2016, at 00:16, James Holmes <james@jsent.co.za
>>> <james@jsent.co.za>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>>
>>> I represent an SME that has been active in traffic control systems in
>>> South Africa for more than 20 years. One of our main functions has
>>> been to integrate and consolidate various sub-systems such as traffic
>>> lights and sensors, variable message signs and vehicle detectors in
>>> order to present a unified UI in the control rooms. To this end we
>>> have used our in-house developed SCADA system called JSent. For more
>>> information on JSent please see jsent.co.za. For a better overview of
>>> the traffic features there is a brochure in the downloads section.
>>>
>>> JSent is currently deployed in the main traffic centers in South
>>> Africa. In Durban, Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg. Most of the
>>> traffic status, traffic sensor data and camera feeds terminate in
>>> these control centers. With this experience, and knowledge of the
>>> local authorities, it seems that there could be a good fit between
>>> ourselves and FIWARE as far as smart city applications are concerned.
>>>
>>> This email is to explore the possibility of further collaboration with
>>> FIWARE, possibly under the Mundus program.
>>>
>>> I look forward to hearing your thoughts,
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> James Holmes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Since January 1st, old domains won't be supported and messages sent to
>>> any domain different to @lists.fiware.org <http://lists.fiware.org>
>>> will be lost.
>>> Please, send your messages using the new domain
>>> (Fiware-mundus-req@lists.fiware.org
>>> <Fiware-mundus-req@lists.fiware.org>) instead of the old one.
>>>