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Snap4City platform is 100% open source, licence free. see github/disit and details are from page https://www.snap4city.org/944

Snap4City sustains by providing services over the platform. Ask for any offer to snap4city@disit.org

The process of Adopting Snap4City for City, Region or industry.

  • Snap4City is open source, you can install from yourself by following the instructions on https://www.snap4city.org/738
    • to this task you can ask to DISIT lab to do the job, and this has a cost, which may depend on the size and complexity of data processes. It may range from 15keuro to millions for a national platform with all features, verticals and tools
    • in the training course there is a section dedicated to the platform and installation. while in the above metioned page the details  https://www.snap4city.org/944
  • You can install the platform from yourself, with your resources, if you do that, you do not need to pay or sign any contract with DISIT lab or with other partners. IT IS OPEN SOURCE.
    • If you need a support. You can ask to DISIT lab or other companies to provide you the support.
    • DISIT lab may provide first, second and/or third level maintenance, development, customization, etc. as described in the following. All the specific actions may have a cost, ask for a quote. 
    • A large number of ready to use scenarios and applications are also accessible.
  • Training sources are accessible from: https://www.snap4city.org/944 and they are free of charge. Courses followed live are held periodically and may have a cost, and include the issue of attendance or proficiency certificate. 

The Snap4City platform is a commodity:

  • installation of the platform on your premise, or on your indicated public/private cloud, via docker compose typically and/or VM.
    • This installation may be performed by supporting your technicians, or performing the installation in your premise and then passing the control to your personnel (the technical and adminisrtative training may be included);
    • There are a number of companies in Europe and out of Europe  that may install a Snap4City platform, We are one of those.
    • Any installation of the platform can be rebranded but it has to report in the main web page and main tools Powered By Snap4Tech logo and statement https://www.snap4city.org/296, white lable is not typically provided, please ask. 
    • Snap4City is a Powered by FIWARE Solution:  https://marketplace.fiware.org/pages/solutions/b8905e91973b420189cce972
    • Snap4CIty if an official FIWARE Platform:  https://marketplace.fiware.org/pages/solutions/d68534ec827500f1bde8720f
    • maintenance and upgrade services are provided and may include update only for certified platform. 
    • Snap4City solutions are provided and certified. Certified implies to certify its configuration and the applications provided by us. The certification is performed once the  platform is provided to be used and ready to use instant. The certfiication implies to generate a signed ZIP/storage with all the configurations and tools provided including: config files (not in open source), source codes in open source, IoT App if developed by us, dashboards if developed by us, etc. 
    • The platform maintenance and help desk support conrtacts and agreement are considered valid only on certified platforms. In the case of intervention the platform certification is verified, if the platform manipulation will be detected as modified with respect to the last certification the maintenance and help desk would not be possible.
    • The certification can be performed by authorised personnel and partners
    • A recertification can be performed and will have a cost of 15% of the value of the platform at the moment of recertification. The value of the platform is assessed on the basis of the value reported in the early offer plus the eventual additions in terms of VM, Dockers, storage, dashboards, IoT Apps, Devices, Applications, etc., developed by US or authorized personnel and which are requested to be maintained and updated so far.
  • operating smart city as a service (see also EOSC https://www.snap4city.org/503 market place in which Snap4City is listed): hosting data, providing services, etc. and the above points integrated. maintenance of an installed Snap4City solution, on our cloud, on any cloud, on your premise.
    • This service may imply to set up a team dedicated for your trial on the Snap4City.org infrastructure;
    • The operation can be performed from our cloud, on some public cloud, on your cloud as well.
    • The installation could be focused on requesting a single  tenant in more complex platform instance or an independent instance. 
    • There are a number of companies or institutions in Europe, and out of Europe that offer Snap4City platform as Smart City as a Service. 
    • Any installation of the platform can be rebranded but it has to report in the main web page and main tools Powered By Snap4Tech logo and statement https://www.snap4city.org/296
    • please request this service to the companies or instititutions that have supported you in the Snap4City installation
    • We can provide second level maintenance to your personnel that have taken in charge the management of an installation of Snap4City tools.
    • maintenance and upgrade services are provided and may include update only for certified platform. 
    • Snap4City solutions are provided and certified. Certified implies to certify its configuration and the applications provided by us. The certification is performed once the  platform is provided to be used and ready to use instant. The certfiication implies to generate a signed ZIP/storage with all the configurations and tools provided including: config files (not in open source), source codes in open source, IoT App if developed by us, dashboards if developed by us, etc. 
    • The platform maintenance and help desk support conrtacts and agreement are considered valid only on certified platforms. In the case of intervention the platform certification is verified, if the platform manipulation will be detected as modified with respect to the last certification the maintenance and help desk would not be possible.
    • The certification can be performed by authorised personnel and partners
    • A recertification can be performed and will have a cost of 15% of the value of the platform at the moment of recertification. The value of the platform is assessed on the basis of the value reported in the early offer plus the eventual additions in terms of VM, Dockers, storage, dashboards, IoT Apps, Devices, Applications, etc., developed by US or authorized personnel and which are requested to be maintained and updated so far.
  • help desk support on all the aspects over an exceding amount of hours that are free of charge;
    • help desk service can be aquired in terms or hours. 
  • consultancy
  • developing on Snap4City platforms: see development life cycle https://www.snap4city.org/download/video/Snap4Tech-Development-Life-Cycle.pdf
    • data ingestion and data transformation processes on Snap4City platforms via IoT App/Proc.Logic or Python
    • data analytics (ML, AI, XAI, optimizaton, simulation, etc.) over those that are freely provided, and/or setting up data analytics that need customization on your context. For example, the development and/or the set up of traffic flow reconstruction solution in your city and/or area, the predictions on NOX based on GRAL, parking, land sliding, semaphore management, heatmaps, what.if analysis, etc.;
    • Dashboards, business intelligence tools, visual analytics tools and thus of Verticals on Demand
    • Synoptics
    • Custom Web app and Verticals such as: smart light, smart parking, smart waste, smart environment, smart mobility, smart energy, smart maintenance, assett management, toursim monitoring and control, what-if analysis, demand vs offer of mobility, optimisation tools, etc.  https://www.snap4city.org/4
    • Mobile Apps, tools and applications; or new modules in our Apps of the "xxx in a Snap" series;
    • SnapBot Telegram bot attached to your solution based on Snap4City technology;
    • IOT Devices/Entities with requested sensors and actuators;
    • etc. etc. 
  • training your operative personnel, https://www.snap4city.org/944 
    • Training for Basic Developers of Dashboards and IoT App, for data ingestion, processes construction, solution development, etc.
    • Training for Data Analytics Developers in connection to IoT App
    • Training for Advanced Developers, for developing complete verticals, Business Intelligence tools, dashboards with business logic, etc. 
    • Training on the job for Snap4City Platform Administrators, only for those that installed or are installing a Snap4City platform
    • Short Overview is usually offered depending on availability. 
    • Typically courses are offered online, they may include some videos an interactive sections. Personalized course may have to be negotiated. 
  • customization of  the snap4city platform, modules, tools, and plugins; that in principle will be released open source (or of your ownership depending of your preferences), with changes on the code that will be released open source according to the licence model of the customized tool;
  • hackathons: organization, management and coworking sections for your stakeholders; In certain cases, this activity is performed in collaboration, so that no fee is required to be paid, while negotiation has to be performed.
  • etc.

The fact that you you are going to develop or you have developed some  solution or artefact in Snap4City (which is 100% open source) does not imply that the artefacts nor your smart solutions are open source as well. They are 100% under your control and IPR, and you can decide how to licence them, imposing on them an licence you prefer. This also implies that Snap4City has no rights on what you have developed using Snap4City development tools, neither on any installation of Snap4City or Snap4Tech solutions installed by third party. In fact, Snap4City Affero GPL is an effective an open source tool, no dual licence. The same licence for noforprofit and profit companies. 

If you are developing some smart solutions on some platform Powered by Snap4City technology, the platform manager and owner may have some rights on what you have  developed according to the terms of use. For example, the rights to turn off them and discharge your solution if it creates some problems or violate the rules imposed by the service or trial.

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See also Snap4City on EOSC as: https://marketplace.docker-fid.grid.cyf-kr.edu.pl/services/snap4city 

Snap4City (https://www.snap4city.org ) provides a flexible method and solution to quickly create a large range of smart city applications exploiting heterogeneous data, performing data analytics, and enabling services for stakeholders by IOT/IOE, data analytics and big data technologies. Snap4City applications may exploit multiple paradigms as data driven, stream and batch processing, putting co-creation tools in the hands of: (i) Smart Living Lab users and developers a plethora of solutions to develop applications without vendor lock-in nor technology lock-in, (ii) final users customizable / flexible mobile Apps and tools, (iii) city operators and decision makers specialized / sophisticated city dashboards and IOT/IOE applications for city status monitoring, control and decision support.

Snap4City is for organizations/communities interested in Smart City and IOT, which would like to perform experiments on smart city data, that you can upload or reuse from those available, for research purpose and validation.

Features for the organizations that subscribe the service will have a number of users to:

Access at large collection of data coming from different cities.

  • Exploit a set of tools for uploading and integrating new data, and performing data analytic.
  • Comparing results obtained with those of different cities.
  • Sharing data transformation and data analytics with other users in the same or different organizations.
  • Access to a large set of training test cases, tutorial, video and examples.
  • Search and discovering smart city data on the basis of entity relationships, temporal and spatial, semantic search.
  • Access to Advanced Smart city API, also in the form of MicroServices in Node-RED.
  • Control entity type access with GDPR compliant mechanisms.
  • Upload on the system new data sets up to 30Gbyte.
  • Authorize a number of final users for the organization.
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Please note that developing solutions on Snap4City implies to create your artefacts and smart solutions, decision support systems, etc., in fully control of your Intellectually Property and not open source. They are composed by:

·         Data Models, IoT Device Models, etc. 

·         IOT APP, with business logic

·         Data Analytics, in RStudio or Python

·         Dashboards with client side business logic

·         Synoptics,

·         etc. 

The fact that you have developed them in Snap4City (which is 100% open source) does not imply that the artefacts and your smart solutions are open source as well. They are 100% under your control, and you can decide how to release them, which kind of licence to impose on them. This also implies that Snap4City has no rights on what you have developed using Snap4City development tools. In fact, it is totally equivalent of developing a program with an open source tool. If you develop a database with MariaDB, the tables and queries are not open source, if you develop something on NIFI Apache which is open source, your flow is not open source, etc. 

If you are developing some smart solutions on some platform Powered by Snap4City technology, the platform manager and owner may have some rights on what you have  developed according to the terms of use. For example, the rights to off and discharge your solution if it creates some problems or violate the rule imposed by the service.