YOUR DASHBOARD SHOWS WHAT HAPPENED. ASK WHY, AND YOUR AI READS 100 PAGES. THE NUMBER NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN Every city I have worked with over the years has a platform of some kind: an (optional) broker, a database, a dashboard with coloured dots on a map. The platform is rarel... AI AirQ Context Hub Data Sovereignty KISS LLM Local AI NGSI-LD OASC SCEWC Smart City Expo 2026 Smart Data Models Smart city Urban Data Platform Vela Context
WE STOPPED COUNTING AND MAPPED A MILLION METER READINGS THE TRILOGY GOT A SEQUEL NOBODY ORDERED UPDATE 2.9.2026: The CSV throughput figures below are from August. After improvements to CASSIOPEIA the same run now completes about 2.9 times faster on the CSV... KISS NGSI-LD
THE MOST EXPENSIVE WORD IS "PROPRIETARY" WHY VENDORS LOCK IN (AND WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BLAME THEM FOR TRYING) Let us be fair to vendors for a moment, because I am one. No company locks in a customer out of villainy. They do it because a captur... KISS Manifest Smart city
YOU PROBABLY DO NOT NEED A DATA LAKE (YET) Every smart-city journey arrives, sooner or later, at the words "data lake." Pleasant words: they suggest depth, calm, abundance. The brochures show a clean blue diagram. Nobody mentions the part wher... KISS Manifest Smart city
THE SMART CITY PROCUREMENT MANIFESTO Smart-city technology is sold on a promise of control, and too often delivers the opposite: a city that has to ask permission, and pay, to use what it already owns. It does not have to be this way. A ... KISS Manifest Smart city
I JUST WANTED TO SEE THE DATA. APPARENTLY THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK I DON'T WANT YOUR SCREENSHOTS I am, (only) by job title, "the big boss". Which means that every now and then I sit in a progress meeting and someone shows me screenshots. Nice screenshots. Carefully c... Data space Sensors Smart city
THE METER, THE MISTRESS, AND THE MISSING DETECTIVE THE STUDENT AND THE TEN PARAMETERS (TO SAY NOTHING OF THE BLENDER) A few years ago a student called me looking for a BSc thesis topic. We were knee-deep in IoT sensors for industry at the time, and on... KISS NGSI-LD
DEAR EUROPE - WE HAVE A COAL PLANT THAT WOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU CONSUME LESS COAL A FEBRUARY ARTICLE IN FINANCE RUINED MY COFFEE, PART 2 A 600 MW unit for hire, gently used, specialises in powering electricity-saving analytics. Apply within. In the previous part of this electricity... KISS NGSI-LD
THE ELECTRICAL METERS ARE FINE. THE RECURRING REVENUE IS TERRIFYING. A FEBRUARY ARTICLE IN FINANCE RUINED MY COFFEE It was a Tuesday morning. I had coffee in one hand, my PIES 2026 slides open on the other screen, and a genuinely optimistic plan for the day. Then the F... KISS NGSI-LD
A BUS COMPANY SAYS THEY'RE ON TIME. WE GAVE THE CITY A WAY TO VERIFY. THE MEETING WHERE SOMEONE MENTIONED THE BUSES It wasn't even a proper project brief. During a meeting with a small EU city that already runs a smart city platform - context broker, some sensors, dashb... KISS NGSI-LD
TOWARDS DATA SPACES WITH NGSI-LD - CASSIOPEIA NGSI-LD MAPPER FROM DATA CATALOGS TO DATA SPACES WITH Vela Context Data Hub CASSIOPEIA Everyone says they are building a data space and if you listen long enough you might even start to believe that uploading an Exc... Data space NGSI-LD
I TRIED TO DIGITALIZE SANTA. I SURVIVED. BARELY I HAD A DREAM. I WOKE UP SCREAMING. I had a dream. One of those dreams where everything is finally going to be done properly. Well, not exactly. In the dream, I do not remember exactly how it started... Christmas KISS Sensors