Malena Donato Cohen added a comment - 07/Nov/16 10:29 AM ---- Original Message ---- From: Donato Cohen, Malena Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 10:25 AM To: 'xiuyan.li@huawei.com' Cc: MIGUEL CARRILLO PACHECO (miguel.carrillopacheco@telefonica.com); De Lama Sanchez, Nuria; Stefano Depanfilis (stefano.depanfilis@eng.it) Subject: RE: [FIWARE-JIRA] ( HELP-7648 ) [Fiware-general-help] Quesitons about FIWARE Dear Xiuyan, Thank you for your interest in FIWARE. Now, answering your questions, let me go step by step. Where is the FIWARE headquarter? The Foundation has been just launched in Berlin , but note that partners are from Spain, Italy, Germany and many other places… even we have the FIWARE mundus in Brasil, Mexico etc. but FIWARE is a European initiative with global approach/scope. https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-foundation-comes-alive-to-lead-open-source-platform-community-sets-up-hq-in-berlin/ > 2. How is a new GE adopted and the corresponding API published in the specifications in FIWARE? Is there any certification? FIWARE as such contributes the core foundation, that is to say, the GEs and GE reference implementations. These are provided by the consortium members but we have plans to open it up in coming months to open a community. If you have ideas to contribute to our GEris; please check here What is a FIWARE Geri: http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE_Frequently_Asked_Questions_%28FAQ%29#What_is_a_FIWARE_GEri.3F Also, we have a free experimentation environment called FIWARE Lab ( https://lab.fiware.org/ ) where we are progressively making available our GEs with self-deployment facilities, I suggest you enter the lab as well. > 3. Is authorization and/or fees required to develop apps using FIWARE platform for commercial purposes? All are open and royalty free. However you need to check the terms and conditions and see each of the GEs: https://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers > 4. Why FIWARE uses NGSI data model/API instead of oneM2M? It seems that one oneM2M is more popular nowadays. Here we have the description of the NGSI Open RESTful API Specification, we have chosen NGSI because it was an strategic decision made from core FIWARE architects and founders. https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FI-WARE_NGSI_Open_RESTful_API_Specification Here you can have more information: http://cattelefonica.webs.upv.es/Fiware/fiwareoverview-141006190614.pdf Also, you can raise your question in that section (so you can get FIWARE developers answers) https://ask.fiware.org/questions/ Here you have other examples: https://ask.fiware.org/question/48/why-fiware-iot-exists-when-we-already-have-solutions-such-as-iotsys-domotic-osgi-gateway-openhab-and-others/ > 5. Is there any successful commercial use case in OASC except the showcases? How is the OASC going? Well there are already many cities using FIWARE as they expose data that can be reused in other third party applications, all the info about the OASC can be found here: http://oascities.org/ > 6. Is a list of the companies who are active in FIWARE/OASC available? Here you can find all, SMEs, accelerators, etc all the actors engaged: http://map.fiware.org/actors/smes Also, you can find a list of cities which are adopting common standards for managing context information and making it available as real-time open data. City projects are now beginning to be released because open platform infrastructure is in place - Citizens and city authorities are now using the new smart city tech tools built on FIWARE - http://oascities.org/list-of-cities/ > 7. What’s the promotion plan for FIWARE except the accelerate program? Is there any other organizations that FIWARE going to establish collaborations with besides TMF/NIST/EDP ? The acceleration program is already closed. But we have https://www.fiware.org/foundation which is a separated “entity” let’s say and this is open to any industry or company that wants to invest or participate, this is important in your case because you are more than welcome to join us from Huawei. We are open to establish as much open collaboration as possible and enrich the FIWARE ecosystem. If you want to apply find all the information here: https://www.fiware.org/foundation/join/ Last but no least FIWARE will be present at the Smart city Expo World Congress 2016 http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/ , next week. The event will take place in Barcelona, November 15-17th.The FIWARE booth will be at Hall P2, Level 0, Street C, Stand 324 (Fira Barcelona). There will be companies showcasing their solutions at the FIWARE Booth and I would like to invite you of course to visit us and ask openly all these questions and even more. There will be a very nice talks about FIWARE (you can attend these if you want): https://www.fiware.org/category/events/ Also, next month we have the FIWARE Summit and, is during 13-15 of December in Malaga, Spain. Information can be found at www.fiware.org/summit Please, let me know if you have more questions, I’ve tried to answer all of them but not sure if at this stage have all the answers you are looking for. Kind regards, Malena Malena Donato Atos Research & Innovation Telephone +34 91 214 8000 malena.donato@atos.net Albarracín, 25 280037 - Madrid Spain Atos Research & Innovation es.atos.net

FW External User added a comment - 08/Nov/16 9:55 AM Comment by xiuyan.li@huawei.com : Dear Malena, Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I will discuss with my colleagues to see whether we will have more questions. It's a pity that I cannot attend the Smart city Expo World Congress 2016. Maybe I will ask the colleague who will be there to visit the FIWARE booth. I will write to you in advance in that case. Best Regards, Xiuyan -