CEF Context Broker Presented at the European Week of Regions and Cities
On 9 October 2018, experts from the FIWARE Foundation presented the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Context Broker during the European Week of Regions and Cities.
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Context Broker Building Block enables organisations (including but not limited to public administrations) to manage and share data in real-time describing, “what is currently happening” within their organisations, in the real world they manage or where they run their daily business processes. Thus, for example, Smart Cities can share information about what is happening in streets (e.g., traffic status, quality of air data, available parking slots or location). This information describing what is currently happening is referred as “context information”.
The CEF Context Broker is composed by two major software components developed by FIWARE: the Orion Context Broker component which implements the core Context Broker functionality itself and the Cygnus component which complements Orion.
If you are registered for the European Week of Regions and Cities, you have the opportunity of seeing the presentation again on 10 October 2918 at 14.00, stand 19.3 (Digital Services for Regions and Cities) in the exhibition hall.
You can download the slides from the presentation below.
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance. The European Commission presented the CEF building blocks at the Digital Services for Regions and Cities stand.
The FIWARE Community is an independent Open Community whose members are committed to materialise the FIWARE mission, which is “to build an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and implementation-driven software platform standards that will ease the development of new Smart Applications in multiple sectors”
CEF supports multiple digital infrastructure projects, which contribute to improvements in the daily lives of Europeans through digital inclusion, the connectivity and interoperability of European digital services, and the development of a Digital Single Market.