The city and urbanization offer many advantages for people, such as centralization of
services and activities, but they can also have negative consequences, such as
concentrated traffic, noise and air pollution.
Private cars are a major cause of urban air pollution, which is why some EU countries
are introducing bans on petrol and diesel cars. Electric vehicles are an alternative,
but many people still can't afford them.
The concept of electric car sharing is a convenient and environmentally friendly form
of transport that allows people to use a car without owning it and reduces monthly
costs. This concept is supported in Slovenia by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the
Slovenian Platform for Sustainable Mobility. Car sharing services are user-friendly
and easily accessible, as car rental is done via an app.
The data collected by the app and the car rental stations can be useful for public
transport infrastructure planning. The Internet of Things (IoT) makes it possible to
connect these devices with other smart devices in the city.
The aim of our thesis is to use FIWARE technologies to place car sharing services in
the smart cities framework through a web application to check the occupancy of the
vehicles of this service.
The final product of the thesis will therefore be a web-based occupancy viewer for car
sharing vehicles, and the data will be stored on the FIWARE widget Context Broker,
which is the central component of our application. This will verify the suitability of the
FIWARE components for storing, processing, and displaying car sharing station data.
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