Fast-track to getting started with open Smart City APIs
Six largest cities in Finland have opened up their data and interfaces since 2014. The cities’ experiences in opening up data and accelerating data-driven business have been collected in a series of brochures.
Searching for experts on Autonomous Vehicles
Forum Virium Helsinki has opened a call for applicants for two open positions. Deadline for applications is Wednesday 15th of November 2017.
mySMARTLife Helsinki – Innovative measures to improve energy efficiency
Helsinki aims to reduce its emissions through smart solutions on the field of energy efficiency, mobility and the related IoT/ICT solutions. To further advance on this goal, Helsinki together with other cities works on cutting down emissions in the mySMARTLife project.
bIoTope – Developing open standards for the Internet of things
The bIoTope project enables development of new solutions across multiple platforms and open innovation ecosystems. This fosters development of the new products and services by the companies as well as public and private institutions.
Smart Kalasatama – Smart districts make smart cities
City planners and citizens are gearing up for the 70 percent of the world’s population projected to live in urban areas by 2050. It will require commitment, consistency, community and collaboration between all public and private stakeholders
Cities as a forefront of digital single market
Interoperability means savings for cities and business for companies. Since 2012 Forum Virium Helsinki has been a key player in Smart City API harmonization efforts through its wide project portfolio consisting of European and national projects.
Helsinki is one of the European Innovation Capital finalists
Helsinki qualifies as an innovation capital for its innovation platforms such as Smart Kalasatama and intelligent transport pilots.
Smart Kalasatama attracts innovation tourists to Helsinki
“Innovation tourism has grown rapidly in recent years. Successful nations and cities are looking to harness new technologies and practices to better serve their citizens and foster economic growth,” says Veera Mustonen, the head of the Smart Kalasatama project.
First six months of Forum Virium’s IoT program: new means for data collection, tweeting flowerpots and stronger collaboration between cities
In a half a year our mission has become even clearer: verifying impact of solutions, testing new technologies, enabling service and hardware development, experimenting with new means for data collection, introducing intelligence, moving towards open modular solutions and creating DSM through harmonization.
Citizens of Helsinki took part in the first “Ambiciti” walk organised in Finland
The participants of the first Helsinki Ambiciti walk measured noise pollution with their smartphones during a two kilometres long walk.
Tender Winners Announced for SELECT for Cities!
We are pleased to announce the ten selected organisations and consortia who will participate in the first phase of the SELECT for Cities challenge.
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bIoTope – Enabling better charging services for electric cars
The bIoTope project lays the foundation for creating open innovation ecosystems by providing a platform to easily create new IoT systems.
Helsinki joins forces with leading smart cities to create a global market for IoT-enabled urban services
Cities of Antwerpen, Copenhagen and Helsinki open an innovation challenge for the European companies: how can the cities reinvent themselves as linked and large-scale Internet of Everything labs, with an easy access to developers and innovators to pilot, test and validate their solutions?
The Nordic Business & Living Lab Alliance – Towards a Nordic Market for health and care solutions
The common vision of the project is creating an ecosystem for Nordic collaboration between municipalities and companies for co-creating, testing and scaling health and care products and services.
Bright Ageing – Smart lighting to improve wellbeing of the elderly
Hanke lisää ymmärrystä hoivarobotiikan hyödyntämisestä kotihoidossa.
Product / Market fit call for Digital Health Starters by EIT Health as of 15th February
EIT Health has launched a call for Digital Health companies. The call is open as fo 15th of February 2017.
Dare to Try! Event presented best practices of piloting and testing in Finland
As a part of the project Forum Virium Helsinki organized a collaboration event in January and connected people in testing and piloting with companies.
FinEst Smart Mobility
To better serve the expanding traffic, five new smart mobility solutions are being tested in pilot projects at downtown passenger terminals of the ports of Helsinki and Tallinn.
The Smart City API Cook Book is out
The Smart City APIs Cook Book introduces to you the opportunities APIs offer for cities, developers and companies.
SELECT open call launches in February
SELECT for Cities lays forth a competition open to all European companies to develop an open, standardized, data-driven, service-oriented and user-centric platform that enables large-scale co-creation, testing and validation of urban IoE applications and services. Tender documents for the competition will be launched in February 2017.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Forum Virium Helsinki warmly thanks all collaborators and partners on highly fruitful cooperation during 2016! It has been a privilege to work with you all, in creating Smart City innovations and among others in boosting experiments, piloting, data-driven business, co-creation with the whole urban community.