Digital Innovation Hubs
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FIWARE Space
Hub Information
- Hub Name
- FIWARE Space
- Local Name
- FIWARE Space
- Evolutionary Stage
- Fully operational
- Geographical Scope
- Regional
Description
FIWARE Space is the innovation center of the Provincial Council of Badajoz to bring the new technologies of IoT and Big Data to citizens.
This center is part of a global project called "Badajoz Es Más", which aims to develop municipalities with a better quality of life through sustainable development. The objective is clear: to turn the province of Badajoz into an Intelligent Territory or a "Smart Province".
FIWARE Space coordinates the activity related to the Provincial Platform for Smart Management of Public Services, which allows the integration of information from different services in one place, to facilitate the analysis and management of services that are the responsibility of the Provincial Council of Badajoz.
FIWARE Space is a non-profit innovation center that aims to make the technological knowledge and tools of the "Badajoz Es Más" project available to different entities, among which are:
- Public administrations
- Municipalities
- Small and medium enterprises
- The teaching and research staff of the university and other educational institutions
- The entrepreneurs
- The citizens
One of the main objectives of this center is to support our small and medium enterprises through the digital transformation of the province. For this, the center makes available to these entities:
- A 2-month mentoring program in which to deepen the underlying concepts of the smart province, to know first-hand the technological work that is being carried out. In these 2 months, it is intended that the company evolve its initial prototype to a solution with the ability to be operational and integrated into the Provincial Platform.
- Specialized consulting and technical support for the integration of solutions in FIWARE. We help the creation and adaptation of data models, knowledge of architecture and the possibilities of integrating into this European standard.
- Help in the certification of solutions in the FIWARE Marketplace portal of the FIWARE Foundation. We advise on how to apply with the solution developed to obtain the different certifications.
- Advice on acceleration programs. After the completion of the mentoring program, we try to find a suitable European acceleration program to take the project to the next level.
- Physical location for the development of integration in FIWARE. We have a physical space in which you can work to integrate the solution into FIWARE, with the tools and support of the technical office.
- Theoretical and practical training workshops. Every Friday of the year we conduct workshops to which people with technical training can go to learn more about how a smart city works.
- Visits to the innovation center. Interested persons or entities can visit the center once a week to see first hand the digital transformation that is taking place in the province.
FIWARE Space also carries out some unique activities throughout the year:
- Hackathons. Workday in which, by teams, a technological problem is solved.
- IoT challenge. Companies are presented to solve a real problem of the province through technology. Once the applications have been submitted, an evaluating court chooses the winner, who will receive an economic endowment to carry out his idea and put it into operation in the province.
- Design Thinking Workshop. Workshop that aims to foster creativity through innovative new methodologies that will allow us to deepen a specific challenge.
In addition to all this, FIWARE Space, in the hands of the Diputación de Badajoz, participates in different local, national and international events in which it provides visibility to the companies of the province so that they can develop their activity in other places and, thus, contribute to the expansion of companies in the region.
Finally, it should be noted that FIWARE Space is considered as a 2-star FIWARE iHub, cataloged by the FIWARE Foundation, thanks to the work and the number of activities carried out to bring new technologies to citizens.
FIWARE Space es el centro de innovación que tiene la Diputación Provincial de Badajoz para acercar las nuevas tecnologías del IoT y Big Data a los ciudadanos.
Este centro se enmarca dentro un proyecto global denominado “Badajoz Es Más”, que pretende desarrollar municipios con mayor calidad de vida a través de un desarrollo sostenible. El objetivo es claro: convertir la provincia de Badajoz en un Territorio Inteligente o una "Smart Provincia".
Desde FIWARE Space se coordina la actividad relacionada con la Plataforma Provincial de Gestión Inteligente de los Servicios Públicos, que permite integrar la información de diferentes servicios en un mismo lugar, para facilitar así el análisis y la gestión de los servicios que son competencia de la Diputación de Badajoz.
FIWARE Space es un centro de innovación sin ánimo de lucro que pretende poner el conocimiento tecnológico y las herramientas del proyecto "Badajoz Es Más" a disposición de diferentes entidades, entre las que se encuentran:
- Las administraciones públicas
- Los ayuntamientos
- Las pequeñas y medianas empresas
- El personal docente e investigador de la universidad y de otras instituciones educativas
- Los emprendedores
- Los ciudadanos
Uno de los objetivos principales de este centro es apoyar a nuestras pequeñas y medianas empresas a través de la transformación digital de la provincia. Para ello, el centro pone a disposición de estas entidades:
- Un programa de mentorización de 2 meses en el que profundizar en los conceptos subyacentes de la smart provincia, para conocer de primera mano el trabajo tecnológico que se está llevando a cabo. En estos 2 meses, se pretende que la empresa evolucione su prototipo inicial a una solución con la capacidad de estar operativa e integrada en la Plataforma Provincial.
- Consultoría especializada y soporte técnico para la integración de las soluciones en FIWARE. Ayudamos a la creación y adaptación de los modelos de datos, conocimiento de la arquitectura y de las posibilidades de integrarse en este estándar europeo.
- Ayuda en la certificación de soluciones en el portal FIWARE Marketplace de la FIWARE Foundation. Orientamos sobre cómo aplicar con la solución desarrollada para obtener las diferentes certificaciones.
- Asesoramiento en programas de aceleración. Tras la realización del programa de mentorización, intentamos buscar un programa de aceleración europeo adecuado para llevar el proyecto al siguiente nivel.
- Ubicación física para el desarrollo de la integración en FIWARE. Disponemos de un espacio físico en el cual se puede trabajar para integrar la solución en FIWARE contando, además, con las herramientas y el apoyo de la oficina técnica.
- Talleres de formación teórica y práctica. Todos los viernes del año realizamos talleres a los cuáles pueden acudir personas con formación técnica para conocer mejor cómo funciona una ciudad inteligente.
- Visitas al centro de innovación. Las personas o entidades interesadas pueden visitar el centro una vez por semana para conocer de primera mano la transformación digital que se está llevando a cabo en la provincia.
Desde FIWARE Space se realizan también algunas actividades singulares a lo largo del año:
- Hackathons. Jornada de trabajo en la que, por equipos, se resuelve una problemática tecnológica.
- Reto IoT. Las empresas se presentan para resolver un problema real de la provincia a través de la tecnología. Una vez presentadas las candidaturas, un tribunal evaluador elige al ganador, que recibirá una dotación económica para llevar su idea a cabo y ponerla en funcionamiento en la provincia.
- Taller de Design Thinking. Taller que pretende fomentar la creatividad a través de nuevas metodologías innovadoras que nos permitirán profundizar en un reto concreto.
Además de todo esto, FIWARE Space, de la mano de la Diputación de Badajoz, participa en diferentes eventos locales, nacionales e internacionales en los cuáles proporciona visibilidad a las empresas de la provincia para que puedan desarrollar su actividad en otros lugares y, así, contribuir a la expansión del tejido empresarial extremeño.
Por último, cabe destacar que FIWARE Space está considerado como un FIWARE iHub de 2 estrellas, catalogado por la FIWARE Foundation, gracias al trabajo y al número de actividades realizadas para llevar las nuevas tecnologías a la ciudadanía.
Contact Data
- Coordinator (Regional government)
- Diputación de Badajoz
https://www.dip-badajoz.es/ - Year Established
- 2017
- Location
- Avenida Javier Blanco Palenciano, s/n, 06006, Badajoz (Spain)
- Website
- https://www.fiware.space/
- Social Media
- Contact information
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Jaime Gragera Rodríguez
jgragera@dip-badajoz.es
+0034 638680441
Organisation
- Organizational form
- Governmental agency
- Turnover
- -
- Number of employees
- 1-9
Technologies
- Sensory systems
- Internet of things
- Artificial intelligence
- Mobility & Location based technologies
- Interaction technologies
- Big data, data analytics, data handling
- Virtual, augmented and extended reality
- Software as a service and service architectures
- Cloud computing
- Logistics
Link to national or regional initiatives for digitising industry
Success Stories - Connecting Europe:
Success case of a system to manage the context information of the entire province based on the European standard called FIWARE
National news:
News about how the "Badajoz Is More" project fights against the digital gap and depopulation of the province
News about the creation of FIWARE Space, a center to boost talent and entrepreneurship in the province
https://agencias.abc.es/noticia.asp?noticia=2991942
Regional news:
News about the Provincial Coundil of Badajoz joins the FIWARE Foundation to promote innovative technological projects aligned with the European strategy
https://www.hoy.es/badajoz/diputacion-badajoz-fiware-20181203172928-nt.html
Video of the inauguration of the FIWARE Space center by the president of the Provincial Council of Badajoz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzJ-taZWYk
Three companies from Extremadura achieve an international certificate for their intelligent Internet solutions
https://www.hoy.es/badajoz/tres-empresas-extremenas-20191031124127-nt.html
News about a speech by the president of the Provincial Council of Badajoz talking about the innovation center FIWARE Space and how it will help to evolve the province technologically
Award won for the work of the center and the Badajoz Is More project
https://www.eldiario.es/eldiarioex/Premian-Smart-Provincia-Diputacion-Badajoz_0_846215718.html
Meeting between the Provincial Council of Granada and Badajoz to share impressions on the digital transformation of their territories
The Fiware Space center drives the digital transformation of the territory
About 60 Erasmus + students visit the FIWARE Space of the Diputation of Badajoz
The «IoT Challenge 2019» will improve citizen's care in the environment, sustainable development and tourism
Market and Services
Sectors
- Agriculture and food
- Energy and utilities
- Public administration
TRL Focus
- TRL3 - Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept
- TRL4 - Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment
- TRL5 - Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment
- TRL6 - System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
- TRL7 - System prototype demonstration in an operational environment
- TRL8 - Actual system completed and qualified through test and demonstration
- TRL9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations
Services provided
- Awareness creation
- Ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking
- Visioning and Strategy Development for Businesses
- Collaborative Research
- Concept validation and prototyping
- Testing and validation
- Access to Funding and Investor Readiness Services
- Mentoring
- Education and skills development
Service Examples
Challenge IoT
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Customer Profile: SMEs. Customer needs: small businesses usually have the need to make themselves known in order to develop their business. They also need to obtain financing to develop different projects that give them visibility. Provided Solution: This activity allows companies to present their previous projects to be known at events in the province and also provides the winner with € 50,000 to develop and export it to other places. To promote SMEs in our province to carry out real solutions that use IoT and FIWARE technology applied to real needs of our municipalities, we annually organize the IoT Challenge. That's why FIWARE Space, led by Telefónica and the Badajoz Provincial Council, launched the 2019 IoT Challenge. The objective was to create a technological solution to develop a tool that would allow us to Monitor the Environmental Quality of the towns and cities of the province of Badajoz. The best solution obtained resources of up to 50,000 euros to develop the idea. As a result, we do have this project working and providing real enviromental data from the different parts of our province and many partners are interesting in to perform collaborations and keep on with this project. http://www.calidadmedioambiental.org/ Further information |
Training courses and workshops
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Customer profile: SME, research staff, university students, entrepreneurs, etc. Customer needs: Generally, learn more about the internet of things (IoT), about different sensors and how to manage the data provided by the sensors or other sources of information. Solution provided: We have 4 workshops that range from the most theoretical part on how to build a smart city to the most practical part in which we integrate sensors in our smart platform. The technological SMEs of our province can take advantage of the potential of new technologies both in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) and in the field of data standardization from different sources to improve their solutions or to implement new functionalities (FIWARE) that provide greater value to their customers. For those companies that do not know yet the potential of IoT and FIWARE, we conduct progressive difficulty courses every Friday in order to promote this knowledge and provide all the information to the SMEs. As a result, they can decide if they want to start using this new technologies in their products and services, having a wider view of what is going on with sensor and data in real public projects. |
Design Thinking Workshop
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Customer profile: SME, research staff, university students, entrepreneurs, etc. Customer needs: Generally, they look to learn more about new technologies, new metodologies to create ideas and new ways to manage the information. Solution provided: We made an anual workshops to help anyone to increase their knowlegde on technological issues In our province there are a large number of non-technological companies that could take advantage of the benefits offered by the Internet of Things and the data crossing from different areas and solutions to provide a better service or product, as well as to create new sources of income. Therefore, to make possible that not only the technological companies are the ones that can use the existing possibilities brought by the new technologies that we promote in FIWARE Space, we carry out activities aimed at companies that are not technology-based, with the aim that they can approach the project from another point of view. In this case, we organize a Design Thinking workshop applied to the development of new solutions in our municipalities, so that through this dynamic the participants, coming from SMEs, startups, public entities, universities and training centers, work together to design how could our municipalities be in the near future. Press note in local media: https://infoprovincia.net/2019/10/05/el-centro-tecnologico-de-la-diputacion-fiware-space-organiza-un-workshop-gratuito-de-design-thinking-para-empresas-y-emprendedores/ |
Showroom
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Customer profile: public administrations, universities, SME, medium enterprises, research staff, university students, entrepreneurs, etc. Customer needs: Generally, they look to know more about the digital transformation of the province and the way to create a smart territory Solution provided: We made visits every wednesday to show examples of proyect that we are implemented in the province of Badajoz Our SMEs have very innovative products and services that need to be more visible and to reach more potential customers. At the FIWARE Space innovation center we receive visits from companies, public entities, research centers and in general, from the poeple interested in latest technologies that are being applied to manage better our towns and cities. That is why being part of the innovation center showroom is a tool that provides more visibility and that can reach new business opportunities. The companies that have certified their products or solutions in fiware Space, can exhibit their products in the showroom and the experts of the center announce their solutions during the guided tours that take place every Wednesday.In addition, in FIWARE Space we attend a large number of events to promote the project, publicize the technology and also make visible the companies that are already using IoT FIWARE advances, in order to help them to meet potential customers or partners. For visiting our center: https://www.fiware.space/visitas/ |
Hackathons
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Customer profile: SME, research staff, university students, entrepreneurs, etc. Customer needs: Generally, they look to learn more about new technologies, new metodologies to create ideas and new ways to manage the information. Solution provided: We made an anual workshops to help anyone to increase their knowlegde on technological issues. In order to encourage SMEs in our province to create high-value technological solutions, they need to know what are the real needs of citizens in the towns and cities of our environment, as well as the technologies already used by public administrations. That is why we organize a Hackathon annually so that SMEs can know first-hand these needs and they can also take advantage of this day by working with multidisciplinary profiles from different fields such us young entrepreneurs, SMEs, public administration staff, teaching staff, etc., aiming to shape those innovative ideas that could be realized. |
Mentoring Program
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Customer Profile: SMEs Customer needs: learn more about the internet of things (IoT) and how to integrate their solution into an open and free standard such as FIWARE. Provided Solution: 2 months of mentoring with subject matter experts and a technical support office for the development and integration of the application. The technological SMEs of our province are carrying out very powerful developments that can be used to digitally transform our municipalities, however, these developments are often not designed to be integrated with the open technologies currently used by public administrations and do not use a model of harmonized and standard data, which makes your project scalable to other municipalities, other provinces, even other countries. From FIWARE Space we have a two-month mentoring programs, where we help an intelligent solution already developed by an SME, to be compatible with FIWARE, technology promoted by the European Union for the development and global deployment of Future Internet applications, and therefore we help the product or service to meet all the requirements to be certified as FIWARE Ready. Certifying as a FIWARE Ready solution allows access to an increasingly large international market. FIWARE solutions are made visible to the market through the market place and through the presence of its brand in technological events. In this way, we help positioning in an emerging market to find business opportunities. |
Mentoring program - ViralStudios (VirtualARt)
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Customer Profile: Viral Studios (SME) Customer needs: learn more about the area of smart tourism and how to integrate their solution into an open and free IoT standard Provided Solution: 2 months of mentoring with subject matter experts and a technical support office for the development and integration of the application. In addition, a physical space was provided for the development of all activity. In our innovation center we help SMEs to develop their business based on new technologies. In this specific case, the company Viral Studios, developed an application for the recognition of the artwork of the Museum of Fine Arts of Badajoz, which allows to know more information about the artworks through a mobile device or tablet. It is simply necessary to aim with the camera of the device to obtain historical data of the artworks. From the center we help these applications to be integrated into the provincial platform of the Badajoz Provincial Council, through FIWARE technology. Specifically, this application sends the usage statistics of each device of the Museum, the occupancy by rooms, the busiest times, etc. This company has been able, in the first place, to benefit from a 2-month mentoring program to learn about new technologies and thus be able to participate in public competitions related to smart tourism issues. Secondly, after the completion of the mentoring program, the company has been able to certify its solution as ""FIWARE Ready IoT Devices"" in the FIWARE marketplace. Finally, the company has been able to participate in different events held by the province of Badajoz to publicize its solution in different technological forums, by the hand of FIWARE Space. |
Mentoring program - panStamp (RESPIRA)
Customer Profile: panStamp (SME)
Customer needs: Integrate the GWAP protocol (open source radio protocol created by panStamp) with FIWARE technology and create a prototype
Provided Solution: 2 months of mentoring in a physical space reserved for the development of the activity with subject matter experts and a technical support office for the development and integration of the application
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panStamp is a small company located in Los Santos de Maimona (a town in Badajoz) that has been linked to the FIWARE Space project since its inception. This company with great potential was very interested in integrating its devices into the provincial platform for intelligent management of public services. Through the mentoring program they were able to do it and as a result of this work they were able to develop different devices and prototypes A year later, they presented themselves as candidates to solve the Challenge of environmental quality that we proposed and were the winners, thus taking up to € 50,000 to develop their idea. Currently, they have built the RESPIRA devices, which are stations for the measurement of air quality, which have been deployed in 30 municipalities of the province. Thanks to FIWARE Space, this company has been able to certify its solution as ""FIWARE Ready IoT Devices"" in the FIWARE marketplace. In addition, the company has been able to participate in different events held by the province of Badajoz to publicize its solution in different technological forums. Link to the news: https://www.fiware.space/2019/11/29/respira_es_comunidad/ In this website you can see this an another success cases of our SMEs: https://www.fiware.space/space-marketplace/ |
Funding
- Regional funding
Customers
- Number of customers annually
- >50
- Type of customers
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- Start-up companies
- SMEs (<250 employees)
- MidCaps (between €2-10 billion turnover)
- Research organisations
Partners
- TELEFONICA
Large enterprise
https://www.telefonica.com/es/home - FUNDECYT - PCTEX
Research & Technology organization
http://www.fundecyt.es/ - Promedio
Regional government
http://promedio.dip-badajoz.es - Universidad de Extremadura
University
https://www.unex.es/ - Grupo de Investigación en Sistemas Sensoriales (GISS)
Research & Technology organization
https://giss.unex.es/es/ - MB3 Gestion
MidCap
http://www.mb3-gestion.com/ - ViralStudios
SME
http://www.viralstudios.es/ - Eficae Soluciones
SME
http://eficaesoluciones.com/ - Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadiana
Regional government
https://www.chguadiana.es/ - AUPEX
Educational institute
https://www.aupex.org/ - panStamp
SME
http://www.panstamp.com/ - Sngular
MidCap
https://www.sngular.com/es/ - Wellness Telecom
MidCap
https://wellnesstg.com/ - Ventum IDC
SME
https://ventumidc.es/ - Renacen
MidCap
https://www.renacen.com/ - Arantec
MidCap
https://www.smartyplanet.com/