Imagine you are in the monitoring and control room of your city, where all relevant data coming from sensors, mobile devices, social media streams, IoT devices, vehicles and so on are displayed on multifunctional dashboards. Imagine you can read on … Read more
Big Data
In an era defined by the relentless surge of information, Big Data emerges as the driving force behind an unprecedented revolution in how we collect, process, and utilize data. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, the volume, velocity, variety, and veracity of data continue to expand at an astonishing pace. This meta text explores the profound implications of Big Data, examining the fundamental concepts, transformative applications, and the evolving landscape of this data-driven paradigm.
IOT Development: the Snap4City way
During the last decade, application development has extended its borders far and beyond the classical web application paradigm. In particular, two main tendencies arose, namely Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things. Delivering applications on … Read more
SELECT for Cities contest: solve challenges and create value for citizens
The SELECT for Cities project was conceived as a competition between companies operating in the Smart Cities sector and the Internet of Things (IoT), with the aim of identifying innovative solutions to specific problems in European cities. This is a … Read more
The Snap4City API: a tool for smart city developers
Integrated platforms and frameworks are the standard solution to the development, test and deployment of applications within complex environments: for example, no one today would program from scratch a neural network while there are plenty of … Read more
How Snap4City can bring your vision of a Smart City to reality
Interoperability is such a crucial term when your mind gets enlightened with your smartest idea. You start thinking how to make it work and the more advanced and complex your project, the more you start realising that problems should be tackled one … Read more
The integration between data and devices: the Snap4City solution
It is commonly understood that we are living in a “data era”: in the past we had the “commodity era”, when raw materials were the basis of economies and the only goods to be commercialized, next the “energy era”, when industrial productions emerged … Read more
Snap4City Dashboards: Overlook Your City
As we know from the article on sentient cities, Snap4City is an open-source, standard-based, data-driven, service-oriented and user-centric platform, enabling large-scale co-creation of applications and IoT/IoE services. As the name suggests, it … Read more
Toward the Sentient City with Snap4City
A sentient city knows what it has and makes decisions based on current, accurate and shared information. In the smart city, databases become real sensors, able to detect daily variations in the life of buildings, citizens, companies, … Read more
Snap4City hack: a big online hackathon on the topics of Smart City and IoT.
Snap4City is a open source, 100% flexible living lab capable to keep under control the real time city evolution: reading sensors; computing and controlling key performance indicators, KPI; detecting unexpected evolutions; performing analytics; taking … Read more
Using Snap4City, Innovation and Technology to Improve City
The world is quickly becoming always more connected, day after day. The population is fast getting more urbanized: according to the United Nations, about 70% of the global population will live in cities by 2050, cities that use a different kind of … Read more
Big Data Stream Analytics without code
Stefano Pampaloni shared with us his opinion on Big Data Stream Analytics. Hello Stefano. First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself! I'm the sole administrator of Seacom, a company based in the technological centre of Navacchio near … Read more
Kai Wähner: build a scalable infrastructure with Apache Kafka
Kai Wähner works as a Technology Evangelist at Confluent, a Silicon Valley startup working closely with the Apache community to improve the project Kafka, a streaming platform to build highly scalable, mission-critical infrastructures. His main area … Read more