If you want to learn one of the best cases for interoperability, just go back to the foundation of the World Wide Web and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s intuitions. From the very beginning he had clear in his mind that if the technology had “been proprietary and under his total control”, it probably wouldn’t have taken off.
Today, cities and their citizens increasingly rely on connected devices and services, and many urban applications are based on the Internet of Things. Real-life experiences show that smart projects built on interoperable technologies and open data models have a high success rate, since they grant reduced costs (projects using proprietary technology cost 30% more than those using open technology), superior flexibility and scalability.
In a city network, interoperability means being able to integrate a number of different devices and applications on the same infrastructure, scaling up and adding new functionalities when and where needed. The starting point to design an interoperable network is move away from vendor-locked proprietary technologies and choose standard-based solutions and open data models.
At Paradox Engineering, we design and engineer technologies that are open to standards and impose no limits to the integration of third-party sensors or the design of new services to extend our Smart Urban Network. We support different connectivity options, which can be integrated in the same IoT platform.
We also support collaborative ecosystems and alliances to share valuable knowledge and contribute to the massive adoption of Open City solutions. That’s why we active members of uCIFI® Alliance, TALQ Consortium, LoRa Alliance, and other authoritative organizations.
Interested in knowing more about our technology vision and solutions? Let’s meet at the RECI Smart City Congress in Madrid next 19th and 20th September: this event will bring together the municipalities of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI), together with public entities at Spanish and European level, and various professionals from the tech industry.
Paradox Engineering and MinebeaMitsumi will be silver partners – registrations are now open!
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