Dear Ivan,
FIWARE is providing the so called Generic Enablers. Generic (as opposed to “Specific”) means that they can be applied to no matter what industry, they are general purpose artefacts. You need to see what’s in the catalogue and use those that are useful for you in whatever scenario you have.
The best approach is to go to the catalogue (http://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers) and see our current offer. The catalogue concentrates the information of all the available GEs with all the pointers to the manuals, open specs, terms of use, etc.
The definition of the Open Specs and the Manuals associated to each one of the is on the wiki (http://wiki.fiware.org/). The wiki is complex and a bit difficult to navigate at first since it has loads of information. The pages you may need to look for when looking for details are here:
* FIWARE Architecture<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FI-WARE_Architecture> -> list of technical chapters -> Architecture of Individual GEs in each chapter
* Summary of FIWARE Open Specifications<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Summary_of_FI-WARE_Open_Specifications> > Open specs summary of Individual GEs in each chapter
* Summary of FIWARE API Open Specifications<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Summary_of_FI-WARE_API_Open_Specifications> -> Open specs APIs of Individual GEs in each chapter
* Materializing the FIWARE Vision<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Materializing_the_FI-WARE_Vision> -> list of technical chapters -> Information of Individual GEs in each chapter (including manuals)
However, these pages also include GEs that are no longer maintained by FIWARE. The safest approach is to go to the catalogue and the catalogue will (hopefully) give you the direct links to the wiki pages that are related to the GE with no need to click though wiki links. The catalogue has the pointers to all the GEs. The GEs have open specs and associated APIs. In practical terms, you decide to create you application and identify GE implementations that provide functionality that is useful for your app. Your app will talk to the GE implementation via a REST interface.
May I point out that we have a free experimentation environment called FIWARE Lab (https://lab.fiware.org/) where we are progressively making available our GEs with self-deployment facilities. We also have online eLearning courses (http://edu.fiware.org/)
Now, we are finding people like you feeling a bit lost and we decided to do something about it. This is why we have this on our home page (http://www.fiware.org/):
[cid:part10.04000507.09040309 at telefonica.com]
If you click on "FIWARE Developers" you get to http://www.fiware.org/developers-entrepreneurs/. There you have a rough explanation of all this I am telling you now plus a few highlights (high level profile GEs) and a few usage examples. There you get a link to a guided tour: http://www.fiware.org/tour-guide/. I believe that this is useful in your case.
May I point out that there are funding schemes for innovative SMEs and individual entrepreneurs willing to adopt out technologies. These are are articulated via the so-called accelerator projects. Many calls are already closed but but you may want to take a peek at the remaining ones: http://www.fiware.org/accelerators/
I hope that it helps
Miguel
El 27/05/2015 a las 17:05, Ivan Palenik | Keydock escribió:
Hey guys,
We're a Berlin based startup in smart cities domain: Keydock partners with local cafes, where key owners can drop off their keys and authorise their guests online to pickup the keys. Remote home access management via key exchange (we're talking about the physical keys) is our starting point. Our vision is to provide valuable information for the city visitors and provide scalable service to people renting out their apartments in cities (we're starting with Airbnb hosts).
I'm writing you because we're trying to figure out how Fiware technologies could help us deliver higher quality service to our users and also to help us figure out what applications exist and how we could benefit from them.
I'd be happy to have a skype conversation with one of your consultants to help me understand better the opportunities Fiware could bring us.
I look forward to receiving your answer!
Cheers,
Ivan
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