Applying Tropos Modeling for Smart Mobility Applications Based on the FIWARE Platform

One of the main issues in current cities is mobility. The unprecedented growth in urban mobility has led to multiple open challenges to be considered in the design of smart cities that improve the citizens' quality of life. There are several factors involved in the development of urban mobility applications as pollution monitoring, traffic congestion, and environmental conditions. One of the most well-founded platforms to develop complex technological solutions for smart cities is FIWARE, which proposes open standard specifications using an open cloud infrastructure. In this context, modeling approaches are needed to represent, in a high abstraction level, the to-be view of a mobility application, with models that help the analysts to understand the semantic of the physical, human, and software actors involved in the application development. In this paper, we explore the use of Tropos framework for modeling in a high abstraction level, the requirements of a smart mobility application that will be developed with FIWARE. The paper discusses the issues found in using Tropos to represent the smart mobility solution.