Projects

  • Tidy City (2022 – 2023)
    • Summary – Cities are no longer mere agglomerations of the population where public authorities have little to worry about beyond offering basic conditions for life in society. To remain attractive, cities must embark on a quest to continuously create conditions that increase the well-being of citizens through new services and infrastructures that improve education, mobility, security, leisure, welfare, spatial planning, and utility delivery. The Tidy City experiment proposes to equip vehicles with mobile devices to take pictures and later process them to detect and classify problems in publicly visible infrastructures automatically. The detected occurrences data will be shared with each corresponding partner for integration and operations optimization.
  • CollMi – Logistics (2022)
    • Summary – The CollMi project aims to integrate FIWARE, iSHARE and blockchain technologies in the development of Collaborative Micro-hubs (CMH) that contribute to a more reliable and sustainable logistics value chain. Collaborative micro-hubs (CMH) is a new concept in the logistics sector based on advanced game theory methodologies, in which a group of logistics companies (express and freight forwarders) collaborate by sharing means and resources for the delivery of orders in a network of common logistics centers installed in strategic areas of urban centers. The main incentives for a logistics company to operate in a CMH are to reduce operating costs, improve the quality of service and cover a wider geographic area without major investments and upfront risks. The application of FIWARE, iSHARE and blockchain technology to this concept will provide a framework for sharing and accessing data, respecting its sovereignty and ensuring that each retailer has access only to information regarding their own orders (or orders from their customers) and that each logistics operator has access to information relevant to its operation – whether it is their own orders or those that have been subcontracted to deliver or to be part of such delivery. 
  • BIO-BEX-A – Information Systems (2021 – 2022)
    • Summary – The BIO BEX-A project aims to provide a fully digital and centrally controlled sludge treatment plant, based on data analytics. Its main goal is to reduce the contamination caused by the residual sludge obtained in water treatment plants, dehydrating it up to 40% more than other systems in the market and thus, avoid its deposit in natural environments without the appropriate treatment and help to fight against climate.BIO BEX-A has been designed as a sludge treatment service that operates through instrumentation and digital control technology capable of analysing the type of compound to be treated, salinity or pH among other parameters, in order to later use the appropriate pressure and temperature to dehydrate the sludge, having on one hand, the toxic residue, which is eliminated and, on the other hand, clean water.
  • FiiHUB – Creation and Execution of the First Digital Innovation Hub of the Internet of the Future for Technological Accelararion of SMEs in Macaronesia (2019 – 2022)
    • Summary – The FiiHUB project aims to create an ecosystem in the Macaronesia region, made up of the main economic actors, namely SMEs, start-ups, researchers, investors, etc. The project intends to bring together these stakeholders, who share a common interest in creating better conditions for the organizational effectiveness and success for everyone involved in an Innovation Hub, which should create synergies so that any business can take advantage of the European initiatives and all the digital opportunities. As part of this project, it is planned to provide SMEs from the Macaronesia region with business models and patterns, and modeling tools to better identify their processes and also to offer training in organizational model engineering using the DEMO methodology and language.
  • FIMAC – Future Internet Macaronesia-FIMAC – Future Internet Macaronesia (2017 – 2020)
    • Summary – Technological acceleration and internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) based in the Azores, Madeira, or the Canaries. Following an Open Call and some outreach events in 2017, in September 2017, 16 Macaronésia SMEs (2 Madeira, 2 Azores, and 12 Canary Islands) were selected to benefit from 60 hours of personalized strategic and technological consulting. These companies are developing a project during the year 2018, with the support of FIWARE tools and specialists from the FIMAC consortium, to create new business opportunities internationally. The projects of these 16 companies were evaluated in the first quarter of 2019 by an international jury, and 7 were selected to receive, by the end of 2019, additional specialized training in internationalization, with a view to the subsequent expansion outside the islands and their commercial strategy, participation in R & D projects and international trade agreements.