FIWARE Innova iHub

Overview

FIWARE Innova iHub is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT Association that supports the digital transformation process and promotes intelligent solutions in the Smart City and Smart Agri Food sectors, acting as a FIWARE reference Hub in Italy. At the moment, in our country, FIWARE Innova iHub is the first and the only FIWARE iHub, and the only FIWARE Certified Expert. The FIWARE Evangelists that are part of the Association represent the largest number of FIWARE Evangelists in Italy.

FIWARE Innova iHub is a “one star” certified in the global network of FIWARE iHubs powered by the FIWARE Foundation (https://www.fiware.org/community/fiware-ihubs/ ). Recognized as a FIWARE Validator Center, it certifies FIWARE products, and provides purpose-designed consultancy and training on FIWARE. The iHub has also a valuable network of private industries, public government and universities.

Our Association has the challenge to help facilitate the empowerment of cutting-edge technologies, successful entrepreneurial strategy, novel business models and sustainable development of solutions and infrastructures in urban and rural areas for transforming them in “Smart Lands” to create wellbeing for a better quality of life.

The mission of FIWARE Innova iHub is to promote the culture of innovation, making the technological knowledge and tools available to different entities such as:

Municipalities, Public Administrations and Local Governments

Organizations and Institutions

Startups, small and medium Enterprises in the Smart City domain

Universities and other Educational Institutions

Small and medium Farms, Smart Agri Food experts.

Through new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Open Data, Artificial Intelligence, DSS and with FIWARE tech as connector, the Association gives support to design and test technological solutions.

It support its network in implementing dashboards and applications that take advantage of the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support System to facilitate the collection, analysis, elaboration and data visualization to improve the management of services and the prediction of frequent phenomenon.

Our organization promotes the development of pilots and trials between the components of its network (in example promoting hackatons and other fast prototyping events).

The Main activities of the Association can be grouped as follows:

1. Business development

business mentoring

envisioning and strategy development

awareness dissemination

matchmaking

pilot development support

2. Skills and digital culture creation

training and supporting activities for assessing digital readiness

seminars, events

lab and test

webinars on Industry 4.0

3. Tech Innovation activities

access to specialist expertise and infrastructure

innovation scouting

collaborative R&D, prototyping

feasibility studies

digital maturity assessment

4. Design and promote FIWARE solutions

the iHub is a place where it’s possible to learn about FIWARE, from a business and technical perspective
allows to test, pilot, certify FIWARE solutions and services
brings together the local stakeholders, acting as a doorway to the FIWARE local and global ecosystem.
Digital technologies.