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 across different services. Think of a user that registers some…
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 of Zurich. EKZ caters to about a million people and…
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.
Latest developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) are brought into focus today, IoT Day 2020. Martelians are working from home due to COVID-19 containment, but our thinking on IoT is on a local, regional and planetary scale. Martel’s IoT platforms – available in your area Martel’s IoT Sustainable Smart City Platform, Orchestra Cities, was…
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 and encourage the use of ICT to better understand cities’ resource…
Martel’s affinity for smart cities was in full evidence at the Connected Smart Cities Conference in Brussels on 23 January. Martel’s CEO Dr Monique Calisti spoke at a session on Operating Urban Data Platforms based on Minimal Interoperability which garnered great interest from the audience. Cities and communities across the world are implementing urban data…
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 cities.
Orchestra Cities met many new friends at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, from 19 to 21 November. Dr Federico Facca, Chief Technical Officer, Dr Giovanni Rimassa, Chief Innovation Officer, and Dr Monique Calisti, Chief Executive Officer, were present at Martel’s booth to interact with visitors to discuss and explain Orchestra Cities’ vision….
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 collaboratively develop and share Smart City Services using Open…
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 discussing solutions to bridge the gap between public authorities…
At the IoT Week, Martel fully embraced the agenda participating in a wide range of activities around three main ways it is supporting through EC funded projects in coalition with other partners: business, showing how Internet of Things solutions can improve business; technology, sharing knowledge about new technologies and device optimizations; and society, promoting sustainability…
Orchestra Cities, the open Cloud-based smart city platform by Martel, has reached a new level of maturity and popularity in 2019. The current version of Orchestra Cities has expanded a broad range of options on offer, while remaining true to the principles of Open Source code and Open API access. The new Orchestra Cities supports…
Martel Innovate is firmly committed to end-to-end ICT innovation and has diversified its core consulting business to include research and development activities, as well as a broad palette of communication, marketing, media and training services. Artificial Intelligence (AI) certainly ranks as a prominent topic among the focus areas for research and innovation, not just for…
Martel’s CEO Dr Monique Calisti has a guest blog up on the website of Finnish innovation agency, Sitra. Calisti’s blog “Creating an internet of humans” was written from her perspective as head of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Outreach Office. However, it also demonstrates Monique’s personal passion and motivation for building a human-focused internet for…
At last week’s Smart City World Expo Congress in Barcelona, Martel won a 5G award. The prize was for GreenRoute, a smart-mobility software application co-developed with Mexican institutions. We also exhibited our smart city platform Orchestra Cities at the conference. GreenRoute is a powered by FIWARE solution developed by INFOTEC, Martel and other partners within…
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 representing and promoting FIWARE across the world. “Having been…
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 results of our ongoing Smart Cities projects. We also got…
Team Martel are back from a busy but rewarding edition of EuCNC that was held last week in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Clocking up its 27th edition, this European telecommunications and networking conference has been around since the founding stages of the European Union and it’s a major event where European communication networks researchers, innovators and policy makers meet.
