The smart cities vertical is increasingly dominated by open platforms allowing the deployment of vendor-agnostic, holistic, and cross-vertical solutions and services. To further future-proof a sector concerned about technology lifecycle management, smart city standardization is equally important with initiatives from FIWARE, ETSI, and W3C starting to gain traction.
This report provides insight into platform requirements on a technical, service and business level and outlines how this will drive future smart city paradigms related to the sharing and service economies. The report also includes forecast of platform revenues per application category and type as well as detailed profiles of more than 30 platform vendors including Cisco, Verizon, InterDigital, Bosch, and IBM.