Light pollution and High Value Datasets

by Anna Beyer | Dec 20, 2023 | News

Energy efficiency versus light pollution – the role of high value data sets (HVD)     Light pollution has been rising with the increase of urban settlements. Artificial Light at Night-time (short ALAN) does not only influence our vision of the night-time sky but...

The Story Behind The Schwa Glyph in the BeOpen Branding

by Anna Beyer | Dec 4, 2023 | News

BeOpen Project branding for a consistent communication   The schwa glyph, with its simple and unassuming upside-down lowercase “e” (ə), was introduced by a German linguist of the 19th century. It described as an unstressed or toneless neutral vowel,...

Be open Smart City Expo: Share your highly valuable data

by Lydia Montandon | Nov 14, 2023 | News

Getting a glimpse of BeOpen at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona   Excitement has been in the air when we prepared for our presentation of BeOpen at the FIWARE booth at Smart City Expo World Congress 2023 (SCEWC23) in Barcelona at the beginning of...

Promoting BeOpen on BEYOND website

by Lydia Montandon | Oct 19, 2023 | News

BeOpen presented as relevant project for disaster management   BeOpen presented as relevant project for disaster managementText: The BEYOND Centre of Excellence (Centre of Earth Observation Research & Satellite Remote Sensing) develops research and provides...

BeOpen presented at the Herne Smart City Event

by Lydia Montandon | Sep 26, 2023 | News

BeOpen represented at the Smart City event in Herne September 21st and 22nd 2023 in Herne were dedicated to the topic of Smart City, or rather Smart People, as a necessary basis to get to the city level. Herne adopted this necessity towards being truly digital, as its...

Promoting BeOpen on Ayuntamiento de Cartagena website

by Lydia Montandon | Aug 9, 2023 | News

Communicating about the project in Spanish Following the first press release announcing the project launch, Ayuntamiento de Cartagena, a project partner involved in several use cases, posted information about BeOpen on its website. Details about the European Funding...