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• Inclusion of tools that allow working with the Platform simply and productively and configuring
it.
• Availability and service level levels: RTO (Recovery Time Objective), RPO (Recovery Point
Objective), and other parameters that may be considered.

• Guarantee, support, and roadmap of the Platform to ensure the present and future productive
use.

6.3.8.4 City Platform Implementation use case

Although the actual implementation of the architecture of a City Platform is dependent on the
manufacturer/integrator, many of them have designed their solutions based on a layer model very
similar to that described in the previous section. In the specific case of the Platform of the City of
Valencia (Spain), the architecture has been based on the FIWARE framework.
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FIWARE is a platform driven by the European Union for the global development and deployment
of Future Internet applications. FIWARE provide a fully open, public and free architecture, as well as
a set of specifications that allow developers, service providers, companies and other organizations
to develop products that meet their needs while remaining open and innovative.

FIWARE has been adopted by the European Union initiative, Connecting Europe Facilities, as the
key component for data management (Context Broker). Applications of this component lead the
applications of Open Data, Data Lakes, and context managers.

The greatest differential value of FIWARE with respect to other initiatives are:

• 100 per cent Open-Source standard.
• Open data models and free use of licences, with mass adoption.

• APIs standardized by the WCO and ETSI through the ETSI NGSI-LD standard.

• Adoption by more than 250 cities in the world.

FIWARE is not about “taking all or nothing”. You are not forced to use these complementary FIWARE
Generic Enablers but are free to combine them with other third-platform components to design
the hybrid platform of your choice. As long as it uses the FIWARE Context Broker technology to
manage context information, your platform can be labelled as “Powered by FIWARE”, and solutions
build on top as well. Listings of many FIWARE Ready devices and commercial “Powered by FIWARE”
solutions can be found on the FIWARE Marketplace.

The FIWARE architecture model coincides almost entirely with the one described in the section
6.3.8.3 SSC Platform-layered model and has the following layers:

• Acquisition/interconnection

• Knowledge

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