THE SECRET LIFE OF METERS: FROM BASEMENTS TO BILLING Welcome to SMART CITY KISS , my slightly self-ironic attempt to tell the truth about smart cities. We’ve spent years wandering like digital hobbits through vendor forests, “semantic mountains”, pilot ... Data space KISS Sensors Smart city
A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND ONE DATA SPACE Welcome back to our Data Space series. If you missed the previous chapters, including the one where CKAN behaved nicely or that other one where we extended the CKAN search capabilities, you can find t... Data space Smart city
TURN YOUR SHELLY INTO A SMART DEVICE YOU CAN CONTROL FROM FIWAREBOX QUICK INTRO In our previous Shelly + FIWAREBox blog post / tutorial , we showed how a simple Shelly Plug can publish live energy data into FIWAREBox - through MQTT, Node-RED , and a Context Broker. Af... Data space Sensors Smart city
CONNECT SHELLY TO FIWARE USING FIWAREBOX WHAT ARE SHELLY DEVICES AND WHY THEY MATTER BEYOND SMART CITY AND INDUSTRY THE BIG FAMILY OF SMALL DEVICES Shelly devices are a family of Wi-Fi-connected smart modules and sensors produced by Allterco... Data space Sensors Smart city
CKAN: EXTENDED DATA BROWSER BEYOND METADATA In the last blog post, we introduced the Extended Metadata Browser (EMB) - a tool that finally lets you see your metadata. But once users got that power, something funny happened: they... CKAN Data space
CKAN: EXTENDED METADATA BROWSER THE METADATA MAZE Every national open data portal has one thing in common: too much metadata and too little search . CKAN is excellent at cataloguing datasets, but when you have thousands of them, “Se... CKAN Data space
CKAN: OUR FIRST LOW-HANGING FRUIT IN DATA SPACES If you want to start playing with dataspace preparation in the FIWARE world, you need something easy enough to not scare your team (or yourself) away, but still useful. For us, that “low-hanging fruit... CKAN Data space
CKAN: WHO GUARDS THE GATEs? So far, in my FIWARE DATA SPACE blog series, I've talked about the low-hanging fruit (CKAN) , about harvesting , and about how to actually start building something that doesn’t collapse after the firs... CKAN Data space
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A REAL DATA SPACE? When we started, we (I) honestly didn’t know what a real data space even is and I am still not entirely sure. But now I think I know more. Or at least enough to get into trouble. And my team hates whe... Data space
SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A DATASPACE? The Buzzword That Ate the Smart City If you’ve attended any smart city conference in the past two years, you’ve probably heard the word dataspace more times than the word citizen. Data space