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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.

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 qualifies as an innovation capital for its innovation platforms such as Smart Kalasatama and intelligent transport pilots.

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.

The participants of the first Helsinki Ambiciti walk measured noise pollution with their smartphones during a two kilometres long walk.

We are pleased to announce the ten selected organisations and consortia who will participate in the first phase of the SELECT for Cities challenge.

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?

EIT Health has launched a call for Digital Health companies. The call is open as fo 15th of February 2017.

As a part of the project Forum Virium Helsinki organized a collaboration event in January and connected people in testing and piloting with companies.

The Smart City APIs Cook Book introduces to you the opportunities APIs offer for cities, developers and companies.