Fiware4Water overview Sonia Siauve OiEau Fiware4Water coordinator General objective of the project In Fiware4Water, you can hear “FIWARE”. FIWARE is a smart solution platform developed in 2011, thanks to an European funding. It is currently the main ecosystem used by smart cities to exchange and use data, mainly for transport and building. In Fiware4Water project, our main objective is to demonstrate the feasibility to also use it for the water sector. What are the challenges addressed by Fiware4Water? As highlighted by the ICT4Water cluster in its action plan, a first challenge is that the water sector remains fragmented. Moreover IT solutions exist but are often licensed and not standardized which is restraining the digitalisation of the water sector and doesn’t ease cross-domain management. A second challenge that our society is currently facing is the acceleration of climate change. Water is hence even more a resource to manage smartly in order to avoid any waste. Supporting water stakeholders in managing water resources smartly is exactly what we intend to do in F4W project. What are the expectations in terms of impacts on the water sector? In terms of impacts, I would like to point out the F4W platform itself which is a free of charge, open source and interoperable IT platform that could be plugged everywhere in the world and that could integrate seamlessly any legacy system. This platform allows to collect, process and analyse data to develop smart water models and applications answering a water manager need. As for example estimating the present and future availability of raw water to produce drinking water thanks to both historical and real-time data about weather and water river levels. Back to content
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