From fragmented island data to coastal resilience
VISOR brings territorial, environmental and tourism data from different owners into one view of Fuerteventura — so that visitor pressure can be seen, compared and acted on while it is happening.
We have more data than ever. It just doesn't work together.
Environmental, territorial and tourism data about Fuerteventura exist — but they sit in different organisations, formats and systems. Someone managing the island can rarely put two of them side by side, and by the time the numbers are assembled the season is over.
Four steps, from scattered files to a decision
Integrate
Dispersed data from different sources and systems.
Interoperate
Open standards: FIWARE NGSI-LD and Smart Data Models.
Generate insights
Turn data into reliable indicators and visualisations.
Support decisions
Territorial management, sustainability and resilience.
Indicators, not dashboards for their own sake
Each one answers a question a destination manager actually asks, and each one carries the provider it came from and the period it covers.
Daily visitors to Isla de Lobos
How many people set foot on the islet each day.
Pressure against the visitor quota
How close the islet runs to its permitted daily capacity.
Seasonality of pressure
How the load concentrates across the months of the year.
Tourist pressure per resident
Arrivals set against the people who live here all year.
Tourism capacity per resident
How much accommodation the island holds per inhabitant.
Electricity footprint of pressure
Energy consumed per person as visitor load rises and falls.
Those end dates are the point, not a footnote. Statistical series for Fuerteventura currently stop in 2021, while the islet is counted every day. The gap between the two is exactly what a data space is for — and the dashboard always shows which is which.
One view, built to be honest about what it knows
Indicator tiles, a map of Fuerteventura and Isla de Lobos with the pressure layer, and the series behind each number. Every figure names its provider and the date of its most recent data.
Adding a source should not be a project of its own
Most of what a destination manager needs to see is not their own data. VISOR takes part in TOURiLab Data Space, so a new source does not mean a new bilateral agreement, a new format and a new pipeline.
Publishes under common rules, keeping control of its own data.
TOURiLab Data Space — shared rules, identity and a marketplace.
Consumes as a participant. The indicator appears next to the rest.
The picture is meant to keep growing
Destination economy
Average visitor spend, RevPAR, length of stay, occupancy forecasts.
Water
Consumption and network losses on an island where water costs energy to make.
Energy
Demand against the island's growing renewable capacity.
Waste
Generation and separation, by municipality and season.
None of these require rebuilding VISOR. They require their owners to join the data space.
A collaborative pilot, designed to travel
MNX Online
Technology lead. Architecture, data space, pipeline and dashboard.
Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve
Cabildo de Fuerteventura. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 2009. Territorial knowledge and data.
TOURiLab Data Space
The tourism data space VISOR takes part in.
Built on FIWARE open technology and Smart Data Models, and designed from the start to be replicated in other islands and destinations.
Co-funded by the European Union. This Project has received funding from the European Union's Single Market Programme, via a call for competition issued and implemented under the PHOENIX 4.0 project (Grant Agreement No 101181258).
The content of this material reflects only the author's views. The Contractor, the PHOENIX 4.0 consortium and the European Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.