Digitalisation of the water sector: the successful results of the Fiware4water project
The FIWARE for the Next Generation Internet Services for the WATER sector (Fiware4water) project has been the subject of publications by the European Union and the European Commission, presenting the decisive results brought by this project to the water sector in terms of interoperability of systems, data standardisation, semantics and exchange formats and systems.
Initiated in 2019, Fiware4Water, an H2020 Research and Innovation project funded by the European Union and coordinated by OiEau, composed of a consortium of 14 partners, ended in May 2022.
Its main objective was to demonstrate the use of the FIWARE* platform, which is already used in various sectors (energy, agriculture, etc.), for collaborative management by simplifying data exchanges between stakeholders in the water world.
In total, Fiware4Water has delivered 26 products and services targeting all water stakeholders: cities, managers (drinking water and sanitation), SMEs, policy makers, resource managers as well as citizens and consumers. The range of solutions includes technical (e.g. a mobile application to help users manage their drinking water consumption) and socio-political (e.g. creation of a Water Forum) solutions.
The European Commission has selected Fiware4Water to promote the results of the project. The article published on CORDIS is available in 6 languages. It explains, among other things, how the new standardised, interoperable and cyber-secure water platform ("Fiware4Water Reference Architecture") has been developed and tested by the 4 case studies of the project.
As a proof of the success of the project, the Fiware4Water Policy Brief on the digitalisation of the water sector, co-authored with the 4 other European projects of the DigitalWater2020 group, has been published by the European Commission.
*The FIWARE Digital Platform was created in the framework of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) programme launched by the European Commission in 2011. This global ecosystem brings together developers, innovation centres, accelerators, cities, SMEs and startups to facilitate the development of innovative digital solutions.
Fiware4Water has already made it possible to create and deploy on 4 European sites a reference architecture dedicated to the water sector and to develop applications that meet the needs of the managers involved.
One of the added values of this platform is that it allows the creation of custom applications or the addition of functionalities to existing management systems.