Interoperability
Why does it matter?
Interoperability streamlines smart city solutions integration, boosting efficiency while preventing vendor lock-in. This fosters innovation and ensures operational flexibility, enabling sustainable and competitive investments in connected infrastructure. Kurrant has developed a proven expertise in major smart city interoperability standards like TALQ, FIWARE and uCIFI. We've helped leading cities, utilities, system integrator and solution vendor specify, develop, and implement interoperable projects and solutions.
KURRANT'S PROJECTS WITH INTEROPERABILITY
Key Consortia and Alliances Powering Smart Cities
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STANDARDIZED APIs FOR SMART LIGHTING CONTROL
TALQ is a world-wide industry consortium that focuses on promoting open interoperability among
smart city solutions by designing a standardized TALQ openAPI specification.
This
specification facilitates communication and integration between various smart city solutions,
enabling cities to deploy a mix of products from different manufacturers that can work
seamlessly together using the same Central Management Software platform, thereby enhancing the
efficiency and flexibility of smart solutions for cities. Smart city solution vendors can join
the Consortium as members, support the TALQ API and pass the TALQ certification to be listed as
part of the TALQ-certified product on the TALQ web site.
RESOURCES
Simon Dunkley on TALQ's Purpose & Drivers in 2024
Jose Sanchis on the Benefits & Key Steps Towards TALQ Certification
SMART CITY INTEROPERABILITY
The uCIFI® Alliance is composed of leading companies and municipalities committed to multi-vendor smart city solution interoperability. The Alliance is promoting interoperability confidence through the development of the uCIFI® open unified data model and a smart city device certification program. uCIFI® leverages and extends existing standards (Lightweight M2M and Device Management Smart Objects) with implementable and testable device-specific profiles of the unified data model. The uCIFI® Alliance closes the interoperability gap by providing network-agnostic device communications for use on various cellular, mesh and low-power wide-area networks. By eliminating expensive proprietary API integrations that can lead to vendor lock-in, the Alliance's mission of full interoperability for all smart city devices can be realized.
STANDARDIZED INTERFACES FOR SMART OUTDOOR LIGHTING
ZHAGA is the global alliance of lighting companies that standardizes interfaces of LED light sources and luminaires. The ZHAGA specifications ensure interoperability between LED modules, LED drivers, sensors, and communication modules from different suppliers. By establishing common interfaces and standards, ZHAGA enables cities and lighting professionals to mix and match components from various manufacturers, creating flexible and future-proof outdoor lighting solutions. This ecosystem approach reduces costs, prevents vendor lock-in, and accelerates innovation in smart lighting applications.
RESOURCES
Introducing the Zhaga Consortium
Zhaga Consortium’s Mission for Interoperable, Future-Proof LED Lighting
Seeking guidance on your journey towards interoperability?
At Kurrant, we are experts in specifying and developing solutions compliant with key interoperability standards. Our team contributed to founding the TALQ Consortium and the uCIFI Alliance and we have been actively involved in FIWARE projects.
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