THE MOST EXPENSIVE WORD IS "PROPRIETARY" (copy) 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
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
SMART METERING WORKS. SO WHY DOES IT STILL FEEL… ISOLATED? SMART METERING IS SOLVED. DATA GOVERNANCE IS NOT. In the previous article, “The Secret Life of Meters - From Basements to Billing”, we looked at how smart metering data travels from physical devices t... Data space KISS Sensors Smart city
SMART CITY FAIL: 200,000 SENSORS ON THE STREET AND NO ONE THOUGHT TO ASK THEM ANYTHING HOW AN AWARD, A RIVER AND A THOUSANDS SMARTPHONES TAUGHT US THE TRUE (FUTURE) POWER OF CROWDSENSING Welcome to SMART CITY KISS , my slightly self-ironic attempt to tell the truth about smart cities. W... CrowdSourcing Data space KISS Sensors Smart city
THE SECRET LIFE OF METERS: FROM BASEMENTS TO BILLING Welcome to SMART CITY KISS , my slightly self-ironic attempt to tell the truth about smart cities. We’ve spent years wandering like digital hobbits through vendor forests, “semantic mountains”, pilot ... Data space KISS Sensors Smart city
A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND ONE DATA SPACE WHY A CITY ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE There was a time when smart city projects were mostly internal affairs. Cities built their open data portals, opened a few datasets, launched a bike sharing app,... Data space Smart city
TURN YOUR SHELLY INTO A SMART DEVICE YOU CAN CONTROL FROM Vela Context Data Hub QUICK INTRO In our previous Shelly + Vela Context Data Hub blog post / tutorial , we showed how a simple Shelly Plug can publish live energy data into Vela Context Data Hub - through MQTT, Node-RED , ... Data space Sensors Smart city
CONNECT SHELLY TO FIWARE USING VELA CONTEXT DATA HUB WHAT ARE SHELLY DEVICES AND WHY THEY MATTER BEYOND SMART CITY AND INDUSTRY THE BIG FAMILY OF SMALL DEVICES Shelly devices are a family of Wi-Fi-connected smart modules and sensors produced by Allterco... Data space Sensors Smart city