NEC to Establish FIWARE Lab Node in India
2017年12月12日 - 8:34PM
JCN Newswire (英)
NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) and NEC Technologies India Private
Limited (NECTI) today announced that they will establish a FIWARE
Lab node in India. The objective is to encourage application
developers and solution provider organizations, government bodies
and academia to experiment and innovate FIWARE(1)-based solutions
for smart cities. Having a FIWARE Lab node within India will
encourage more participation from Asian countries as they can keep
all experimental and research data within the boundaries of the
region.
The FIWARE Lab node in India will help to foster a culture of
collaboration between various participating entities and help to
promote their solutions in the FIWARE community. With the Indian
government increasing its focus on Open Source Software, FIWARE can
introduce open APIs based on specifications which are public and
royalty-free.
Slated to start operation from April 2018, the facility will be the
first FIWARE lab node in India endorsed by FIWARE Foundation e.V.
The NEC Group aims to achieve revenues of more than 150M USD from
India and other parts of South East Asia by fiscal year 2020
through FIWARE-based solutions aided by the FIWARE Lab node, which
is being established with an overall investment of 15M USD over the
same period.
FIWARE Lab, which is part of the FIWARE community, is a
non-commercial sandbox environment where innovation and
experimentation based on FIWARE technologies take place.
Organizations, entrepreneurs and individuals can utilize this lab
for learning FIWARE, as well as to test their applications while
capitalizing on Open Data published by cities and other
organizations. FIWARE Lab is deployed over a geographically
distributed network of federated nodes leveraging a wide range of
experimental infrastructures.
"The FIWARE Foundation welcomes the new FIWARE Lab node starting in
India. FIWARE is used by an increasing number of cities in Europe
and other regions and I wish this new FIWARE Lab node will trigger
the adoption of FIWARE both in India and other APAC countries,"
said Ulrich Ahle, CEO of FIWARE Foundation. "It is also our
pleasure to have the NEC Technologies India team's commitment of
making contributions to the FIWARE community, which will strengthen
the FIWARE technology as well as its globalization as a smart city
platform."
"Backed by the Indian Government's strong initiatives for smart
city and digital India projects, we have seen huge demand in India
to develop IoT-based applications for multiple sectors, for which
FIWARE technologies can serve as an open and common platform. In
this sense, India is a natural choice for us to establish the
FIWARE Lab node," said Naoki Hashitani, Senior Vice President,
System Integration, Services & Engineering Operations Unit, NEC
Corporation. "We will fully utilize this facility in order to
contribute to the FIWARE community's efforts and to develop and
test our innovative solutions based on FIWARE technologies to
address growing smart city opportunities."
NEC is a platinum member of the FIWARE Foundation. NEC was the
first Japanese company to join the Foundation and has joined 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 the Internet of Things (IoT).
(1) FIWARE is an open source platform which enables real-time smart
services through data sharing across vertical domains and agencies
via open standard-based APIs. FIWARE focuses on specifications for
common context information API, data publication platforms and
standard data models in order to achieve and improve cross-sector
interoperability for smart applications, with FIWARE NGSI as a
starting point. The technology is present in more than 100 cities
in 23 countries in Europe and other regions. It is royalty free and
avoids any vendor lock-in.
About FIWARE Foundation
The FIWARE Foundation was founded as a legal non-profit association
in October 2016. The purpose of the FIWARE Foundation is to serve
the FIWARE Community which comprises all individuals and
organizations committed to materialise the FIWARE mission, that is:
"to build an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free
and implementation-driven software platform standards that will
ease the development of new Smart Applications in multiple
sectors". These platform standards are materialized in the FIWARE
Open Source Platform for helping startups and enterprises build the
next generation of smart applications and services for cities,
industries, e-health or agribusiness. For additional information,
please visit the FIWARE home page at: https://www.fiware.org/
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.
For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.
Based on its Mid-term Management Plan 2015, the NEC Group globally
provides "Solutions for Society" that promote the safety, security,
efficiency and equality of society. Under the company's corporate
message of "Orchestrating a brighter world," NEC aims to help solve
a wide range of challenging issues and to create new social value
for the changing world of tomorrow. For more information, please
visit
http://www.nec.com/en/global/about/solutionsforsociety/message.html.
Source: NEC Corporation
Contact:
NEC
Seiichiro Toda
s-toda@cj.jp.nec.com
+81-3-3798-6511
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