• big data
• europe
• internet of things
• IoT
• smart cities

The European Union is pursuing a digital transformation through the use of data to create Smart Cities and to support public and private organisations in the improvement of their processes based on data driven decisions. The development of new technologies,and the improvement of already existing ones, is one of the possibilities to make this happen with the project Connecting Europe: in particular, the European Commission funded the Context Broker, a smart technology that is able to gather and centralise data in real time from different sources, such as devices and sensors. The project described in this thesis concerns the design and development of a solution to integrate the potentiality of this Context Broker with two other main components funded by the European Commission: the European Data Portal and the Big Data Test Infrastructure. This integration will allow organisations to manage context information in real time and to store context data in an efficient infrastructure, in order to perform data analytics and visualisation. The solution that has been developed is a small piece of a bigger framework that will make it possible to turn the European Union into a place where digital transformation, data and smart cities have a relevant impact in the economy of the country and in the life of companies and citizens.