Martel Lab is at work to develop an open-source solution for digital data sovereignty to enable user-centric control of security and privacy data policies on data APIs (application programming interface) that will enable the portability of security and privacy data policies and support data sovereignty...
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In the past, when data were not leaving company premises, ensuring and monitoring privacy and security of data was easier. But in the last years, the adoption and deployment of more and more sophisticated cloud-based systems and the proliferation of IoT devices connected globally brought...
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Orchestra Cities (OC), an open source platform developed by Martel enabling digitally empowered and sustainable smart cities, has been implemented in one of the largest communities in Switzerland, through a fruitful collaboration with the Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ), the energy provider in the Canton...
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KITT4SME announces the start of the open call for companies in AI-based software solutions business. The 1st Open call (Type-A) is for SMEs and mid-caps which develop AI-based software solutions with value for the manufacturing industry. In this Call for AI-based software solutions, applicants are eligible...
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Orchestra Cities featured in the first edition of the CITYxCITY Festival, 13 – 15 January, to highlight how the open source platform enables digitally empowered and sustainable smart cities....
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Martel has produced an analysis of the UN’s Smart Sustainable Cities initiative as well as insights into the potential of the open source smart city platform to improve urban sustainability. The UN’s ‘United for Smart Sustainable Cities’ (U4SCC) is a global initiative to advocate for public policy...
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Martel’s smart city platform Orchestra Cities is featured as a key project in the 'Fight against climate change' booklet by the FIWARE Foundation. Orchestra Cities embraces Open Standards, Open API, and Open Data Models. This is the perfect ground to develop IoT solutions for sustainable and inclusive...
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Martel is gearing up for the Smart Cities Expo World Congress for three action packed days addressing digital transformation, urban environment, mobility, governance & finance and inclusive & sharing cities. Our team will showcase Orchestra Cities, our data and IoT driven solution that allows cities to...
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The Smart Country Convention and combined FIWARE Summit proved to be great opportunities for Martel to demo its FIWARE-based products to a wide audience and engage existing and potential customers. The Smart Country Convention, held in Berlin, 22-24 October, attracted more than 12,700 attendees, with 150 exhibitors...
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Martel is back from one of our biggest events of the year, ICT2018 in Vienna, held 4-6 December. ICT: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe is the European Commission DG CONNECT's flagship event, which meant Martel was hard at work representing many of our Horizon 2020...
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Martel’s chief technology officer Dr Federico Michele Facca has been named one of the FIWARE Evangelists. Facca, who has been active in developing, promoting and adopting the FIWARE platform, joins a distinguished group of 30 FIWARE Evangelists in an initiative that recognises those who are actively...
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During the week of September 10, 2018, the Smart City Expo Latam took place in the Exhibitor Center of the historical city of Puebla, México. With over 12,000 visitors and around 44 countries represented (especially from Latin America), it was an excellent venue for Martel to present...
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Cities getting smarter, and that’s creating a new set of challenges for both the cities themselves and their citizens. Living in a smart city opens up amazing potentials through new technologies, the internet of things, and big data - but these same things can raise...
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Next month, Martel will cross the Atlantic to attend the European Science Diplomacy Week & EU-Mexico JSC meeting on March 21-22. While there, Martel will be attending the FIWARE Mexico Open Camp, to promote FIWARE technology within the Mexican ICT community and foster cooperation between the...
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The FIWARE Tech Summit 2017 edition is coming to Malaga on November 28th-29th, 2017! Martel will have a primary role at the event and present three technical talks at the FIWARE Tech Summit. Dr. Federico Facca, Head of the Lab, in collaboration with Fernando Lopez...
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As part of its strategy to engage with new communities and enlarge its business portfolio, Martel has joined the BDVA (Big Data Value Association). The Big Data Value Association is the not-for-profit organisation that implements the BDV PPP programme (Big Data Value PPP). BDVA has...
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Martel brings SMARTSDK Project at the 2nd FIWARE Summit The Second FIWARE Summit took place between the 23th and the 25th of May in the futuristic rooms of the Media Plaza Jaarbeurs, in Utrecht, Netherlands. This fantastic and vibrant city welcomed more than 317 attendees of the summit. Members of...
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Martel Innovate is supporting the organization of the first Open FIWARE Camp in Mexico, which will take place in Puerto Vallarta on June 1st and 2nd 2017. The FIWARE Open Camp is organized within the context of the FIWARE Mexico project jointly with the CUDI Week ,...
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Martel Innovate at the FIWARE Open Day: reconfirming our committment to the success and growth of the FIWARE Open Service Platform and Business Ecosystem. Dr. Federico Facca, Head of Martel Lab, and Dr. Monique Calisti, Executive Director of Martel Innovate, participated to the FIWARE Open Day...
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Martel Innovate has been active in the FIWARE Community since 2011, as partner of XIFI project, supporting the creation and uptake of FIWARE community globally through the marketing first of FIWARE Lab and then of FIWARE Mundus initiatives. The FIWARE Community is an independent open community...
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This week Martel Lab presented its work on High Availability of FIWARE Data Management services at the FIWARE Summit in Malaga! You developed your FIWARE application using Context Broker and NGSI. Now you are ready to go to production and you want a rocket solid architecture for...
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October comes to an end after a fantastic and unique experience in the beautiful city of Barcelona, namely, my first OpenStack Summit. Before November begins, I want to put down my impressions and observations of this incredible event. Taking part of the summit proved useful not only to better understand OpenStack, but also because next year, as part of the R&D activities related to FIWARE in Martel, we are going to push further the work on FIWARE Lab, a free to use cloud based on OpenStack with about 7000 users.
EU-Mexico collaboration framework bootstrapped! The FIWARE family is growing and reaching far in Mexico. Beginning of September 2016 the two international EU-Mexico collaboration projects FIWARE MEXICO and smartSDK have been succesfully kicked-off in Mexico City. Hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, partners from Europe and...
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Pioneering a FIWARE-driven Innovation Hub between Europe and Mexico! Exciting times for the Martel Innovate team at the start of two new EC-funded projects within the Horizon 2020 context that aim at strengthening collaboration between ICT innovators in Europe and in Mexico! By building up on the...
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I am currently flying back from Recife to Europe via Fortaleza (amazing view right now from the window) and trying to collect thoughts after the two days of Beyond 2020 event. Beyond 2020 is an event focusing on the urban innovation processes to ensure that technology supports citizens. The whole event discussed different aspects on how can we can create Smart Cities through Social Innovation.
Dr. Federico M. Facca, Head of Martel Lab, was part of the FIWARE delegation participating to the EU-Brazil cooperation on Human Smart Cities Workshop in Natal (Brazil). The organiser of the workshops was the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The FIWARE delegation was led by Jesus Villasante, Head of the...
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Martel lands in Natal to represent the FIWARE Mundus team and help fostering Brazil-EU cooperation! On behalf of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Inovation (MCTI), the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) has organised the Brazil-EU Cooperation on Human Smart Cities and FIWARE Workshop, in partnership with...
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