One-liner: the Ayuntament de València's smart-city sensor platform (VLCi, built on FIWARE, 3,000+ sensors) plus its public open-data portal (CKAN-based) — free, reusable municipal datasets that are raw material for urbantech, mobility, tourism and AI startups.
What a founder gets
- Free, CKAN-powered open-data portal publishing datasets across 20 categories: science & technology, commerce, culture & leisure, demography, sport, economy, education, employment, energy, hacienda (finance), industry, legislation & justice, environment, rural/fisheries, health, public sector, security, society & wellbeing, transport, tourism, urbanism & infrastructure, housing.
- Multiple machine-readable formats for direct integration: SHP, GML, WFS, WMS (GIS/geospatial standards), KML/KMZ, CSV, and RDF (XML/Turtle/N3) for semantic-web/linked-data use cases.
- Public CKAN API (documented at docs.ckan.org) — programmatic access rather than manual downloads only, so a startup can build a live product on top of city data rather than a one-off analysis.
- Free reuse, including commercial use, subject to the Ayuntamiento's stated reuse conditions — an explicit, low-friction "yes you can build a business on this" position.
- Underlying VLCi smart-city sensor network (3,000+ IoT sensors, FIWARE context-broker architecture) is the live data-generation layer behind the portal — positions València among Spain's more mature FIWARE smart-city deployments.
Who it's for
- Urbantech, mobility, tourism-data and AI/data startups wanting real municipal data to train models, build dashboards, or pilot data-driven services — any phase, since there's no application/gate, just direct reuse under the portal's terms.
- Particularly relevant to founders also engaging Valencia Urban Sandbox or Valencia Living Lab (Program), since VLCi data can underpin what's being piloted in those testbeds.
How to engage
- opendata.vlci.valencia.es — browse by category or tag directly; no registration required to download most datasets.
- For new-dataset requests or reuse questions: contact the Ayuntamiento's Servicio de Sociedad de la Información, Transparencia y Simplificación de Procedimientos.
- API documentation: https://docs.ckan.org/ (VLCi's open-data portal runs on the CKAN platform, a common open-government-data standard).
Key facts
- Ayuntamiento commits to keeping datasets updated and expanding the catalogue based on social value and the cost of opening each dataset (not a static one-time release).
- Portal is one of several digital-government channels alongside "Valencia al minuto," Gobierno Abierto, and the AppValència municipal app — part of a broader open-government stack, not a standalone side project.
- Physical/administrative home: Plaça de l'Ajuntament nº 1, 46002 València (general Ayuntamiento address; VLCi itself has no separate street address).
Relations
- Run by: Valencia Innovation Capital
- Runs: VLCi Open Data Valencia (Program)
- See also: Valencia Living Lab (Program)
- See also: Valencia Urban Sandbox
- See also: Ayuntamiento de Valencia