Posted on 26 May, 2016
Tomorrow, friday, May 27 Hackacity will be launched during the Campus Party in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht. Developers from different backgrounds will work for 24 hours to develop smart city solutions using Munisense realtime data and FIWARE.
The developers can use data collected with dozens noise and indoor climate sensors that we installed around the station areas in Utrecht and Amersfoort, specifically for Hackacity. The real-time data is available via the Munisense INSIGHTNOW platform and our Open Data support: https://opendata.munisense.net. The Munisense API conforms to FIWARE architecture.
In addition to the Munisense open data platform the developers also have access to datasets of governments, companies, research institutions and data platform.
Participants are challenged to come up with innovative 'Healthy Urban Living' applications for an environmentally friendly, safe and active station area. The solutions should thereby focus on the station areas of Utrecht and Amersfoort, and must also be globally scalable to other cases.
The FIWARE Platform provides a rather simple yet powerful set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that ease the development of Smart Applications in multiple vertical sectors, whose specifications are public and royalty-free. Besides acquiring does not cost any money, these software modules and components are quicker to adapt to changes in the marketplace and allow the developers to use the same pieces of technology in their software architecture while designing and implementing for different domains.
Hackacity is a hackathon that aims to test big data and promotes its use to develop solutions that will have an impact in the city, but also foster collaboration amongst stakeholders.
With the support of the OASC Initiative (Open and Agile Smart Cities), Hackacity challenges cities around the world in order to work together in a first attempt to implement an integrated approach of the use of data for the creation of innovative urban solutions.
For 24 hours, participants get together to develop solutions based in open source platforms as FIWARE to address challenges faced by the citizens, using data provided by the city.
Winner of Hackacity in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, will get (financial) support for the development of the actual solution and money will be available for a proof of concept project in a city.