ABSTRACT
The EMBERS project anticipates that a second generation of smart city technology will evolve to an entirely different solution. Ubiwhere, the company that is at the heart of EMBERS, is a provider of smart city solutions through its Citibrain brand, which realises that city managers, rightly, no longer wish to purchase single turnkey solutions. EMBERS’ first goal is to transform the Citibrain’s platform into a market-ready solution. It is entirely more challenging to try to achieve interoperability with multiple third-party devices and applications by offering the platform via an open, public, mobilityAPI for smart cities than to run it inside one’s personal system, integrated with components developed by oneself, via a proprietary interface. Ubiwhere will offer this domain-specific interface via a full suite of lower-level APIs, to ensure the widest possible freedom of choice at a time when no single specification has emerged as a dominant standard.
