(from left) Mr. Ulrich Ahle, CEO of the FIWARE
Foundation;
NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) today announced that it has
joined the FIWARE Foundation e.V., a non-profit organization
promoting the dissemination of FIWARE technology(1), as a platinum
member. NEC is the first and only Japanese company to join the
Foundation.
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(from left) Mr. Ulrich Ahle, CEO of the FIWARE Foundation; Mr.
Yasunori Mochizuki, Senior Vice President, IoT Strategy, NEC
Corporation
NEC will join the board of directors and technical steering
committee of the FIWARE Foundation, the foundation's
decision-making authorities, thereby contributing to development,
standardization and promotion of the FIWARE technology to
accelerate smart city and smart industry businesses utilizing IoT
(Internet of Things).
FIWARE is a middleware platform that was developed under the
European Union's Future Internet Public-Private Partnership
(FI-PPP) project. It is open-source software that has a
standardized set of open APIs, aiming to promote the
cross-industrial use of data and service collaborations among the
companies and municipalities that provide public services.
Many cities and companies in Europe and other parts of the world
have adopted FIWARE for their smart city-related systems. For
instance, NEC has provided FIWARE-based solutions to Santander,
Spain, to help advance the city's waste collection management
service and also to Wellington, New Zealand, to help forecast
traffic volume and understand the environmental situations in the
city, contributing to safe, secure and efficient communities.
Kawasaki City, Japan, will also capitalize on NEC know-how to
optimize its industrial waste collection services.
NEC will enhance its IoT solutions by combining FIWARE with NEC's
existing assets, such as its set of cutting-edge AI technologies,
"NEC the WISE"(2), and system integration platform, the "NEC the
WISE IoT Platform"(3).
"The FIWARE Foundation is a visible commitment of European
businesses to bring more innovative internet services to consumers,
citizens, businesses and the public sector. We welcome NEC as a
platinum member of the FIWARE Foundation and are looking forward to
writing the future story of FIWARE together with NEC. I'm proud of
the commitment of NEC to provide FIWARE-based offerings also to the
market in Japan especially in the area of Smart Cities and Smart
Industry, which are also focus areas of the FIWARE Foundation,"
said Ulrich Ahle, CEO of the FIWARE Foundation which is
headquartered in Germany.
"NEC will provide advanced social solutions and contribute to the
realization of a super smart society (Society 5.0), for which
FIWARE's unique capabilities, including cross-industrial use of
data and service collaborations, will play a crucial role," said
Yasunori Mochizuki, Senior Vice President, IoT Strategy, NEC
Corporation.
(1)https://www.fiware.org/
(2)http://www.nec.com/en/global/rd/crl/ai/
(3)http://www.nec.com/en/global/solutions/iot/iotplatform/
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network
technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross
utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's
advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of
its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in
technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society.
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