PARTNERS / SENSOR AND DEVICE MAKERS
SELL INTO EUROPEAN CITIES
WITHOUT BUILDING A EUROPEAN CLOUD
CITIES BUY SENSORS FROM ANYONE. THE DATA HAS TO ARRIVE IN AN OPEN STANDARD, STAY INSIDE THE EU, AND COME WITH A PARTY THEY HOLD TO A CONTRACT.
VELA CONTEXT IS THAT LAYER AND THAT PARTY. YOU KEEP THE HARDWARE SALE AND THE CUSTOMER. WE SELL NO SENSORS.
TWO REASONS VENDORS ARRIVE ON THIS PAGE
REASON ONE
A EUROPEAN CITY ASKED YOU FOR AN NGSI-LD OR SENSORTHINGS FEED
The city runs Vela or another open data layer and wants your readings in the standard, with history. Send us one payload. We publish the mapping, your device plugs in, the city stops asking. Free, in two weeks. If your device is in the LoRa Alliance device repository, we reuse your own decoder and you are half listed already.
REASON TWO
YOU ARE ENTERING THE EU MARKET AND YOUR CLOUD FAILS THE TENDER
GIBIT in the Netherlands, EVB-IT in Germany, data residency everywhere. A portal hosted outside the EU loses before the datasheet is read. We become your European contract party for the data layer. You ship hardware, we sign with the city.
A filter before you read on. Where does your customer's data live after twelve months? If the answer is your portal and your login, your portal is your product and we are the wrong partner. If the answer is an export on request, your portal is a demo, and this page is for you. Keep your portal. Add one forwarding rule.
THREE QUESTIONS EVERY EUROPEAN TENDER ASKS YOU
You answer the hardware questions already. These three are about the data, and they decide the bid.
Will my data format be
accepted?
We map your device payload once to ETSI NGSI-LD and the Smart Data Models and publish the mapping as open code under EUPL 1.2. Your bid gains the standards sheet the tender asks for, without you writing a line.
Inputs today: JSON, REST, MQTT, CSV, OPC-UA.
Roadmap: ChirpStack, The Things Stack, ThingsBoard, LoRa Alliance device repository.
Output: NGSI-LD, Smart Data Models, DCAT-AP.
On request: OGC SensorThings.
IS MY CLOUD ALLOWED?
Your portal stays yours. The city copy of the readings lives in the EU, in the region the city picks, under the city's jurisdiction, with history the city owns and exports any day. No hyperscaler in the chain.
WHO SIGNS WITH THE CITY?
We do. The city signs with a European company for the data layer, the SLA and the exit clause. You keep the hardware sale and the customer relationship. We never sell sensors, so we never compete with you in the same tender.
One contract, one number, EU jurisdiction.
WORKS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY RUN
No new firmware, no new cloud. Your readings leave your network server or your portal the way they do today, and land in the city record.
LORAWAN NETWORK SERVERS, ROADMAP
Decoded uplinks, device list, gateway metadata. Your repository codec will run unchanged. Dashed means in development.
IOT PLATFORMS AND PROTOCOLS
One rule-chain node or one topic subscription forwards readings. Your portal stays as it is.
STANDARDS OUT
The standards sheet your bid needs, written once, maintained in the open.
pricing
STARTER PACK
€7,400
one time setup
(30 working hours included for consulting and developing)
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- Fully managed shared hosted Vela Context Data Hub instance
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The essentials
Metadata and data viewer / editor
with
filtering, sorting, grouping, importing, exporting
Searchable metadata and data portal
Authentication and authorization
MSP connector
Current weather and weather forecast connectors
Database
NGSI-LD Context Broker
Basic cities/districts/zones/buildings
Semantic model for air quality sensors and weather data
5-8 dashboards
Alerts
Data ownership
API for database access and direct Context broker access for IT team
Installation
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Support
Email support (Business hours)
(OPTIONAL) 12 MONTH SUPPORT EXTENSION
€1,490/month
12-month support extension,
Hosting and support, billed monthly from day 120.
(12 hours per month included for consulting and developing)
Support
Email support (Business hours)
Want the architecture walkthrough?
We’ll show:
- How the data actually flows.
- How to start with one dataset.
- How to avoid “Smart City over-construction syndrome”.
VELA CONTEXT DATA HUB · ONE SHARED DATA LANGUAGE FOR SMART CITIES · EU OPEN STANDARDS (NGSI-LD) · YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE, YOUR RULES