Progress in the users’ requirements for Fiware4Water

Since the kickoff meeting in June the partners have been working together in WP1 to define the requirements on FIWARE4WATER. This contains the requirements of our four demo cases as well as prerequisites by stakeholders and end-users that have to be meet to establish FIWARE in the water sector.

Starting point were workshops at the four demo sides with the project partners to develop demo case specific technical and general requirements that have to be meet so that newly developed FIWARE applications can contribute to an operational improvement of utilities (be it in energetic, ecologic, efficiency, robustness or any other way).

In order to achieve representative and comprehensive requirements two EU-wide surveys were launched in which water utilities and SMEs were interviewed. Contents in particular is, which Smart Applications water utilities and SMEs would like to have, which attitudes enterprises have towards Open Source platforms and which data models they already use. The Surveys will stay open until mid-December to gather as much insight in the needs of water utilities and SMEs regarding the water sector as possible.

Combining the information of the demo cases and results of the surveys an overall list of requirements will be developed that will be guideline for the next work steps in developing innovative, smart applications being used to enhance the digitalization in the water sector.

The results will be published early 2020 as part of the Deliverables.

Author : TWZ