2006 - CARLINK
Wireless Traffic Service Platform for Linking Cars.
The aim of this project is to develop an intelligent wireless traffic
service platform between cars supported with WLAN transceivers beside the
road(s). In this perspective also the WiMAX network is analyzed. The primary
applications are real-time local weather data, the urban transport traffic
management, and the urban information broadcasting.
The operational model is as follows. Cars have integrated WLAN transceivers
to communicate with base stations located beside the road (cars may also
communicate between each other as members of ad-hoc network). WLAN base
stations provide real-time local weather information and forecast, transport
traffic management information and urban information broadcasting to the
private cars and public transportation. Cars gather real-time data
(weather,traffic etc.) about the road they pass, and deliver this
information back to base stations. At the same time, base stations provide
all the information gathered to the central unit containing, among other
things, learning weather model and traffic management central unit. Central
unit use the received data to update its databases (weather, traffic
etc.).Up-to-date information is feedforwarded back to cars. Base station
produces accurate but geographically sparse data measurements (weather,
traffic, etc.) to be integrated with (partially redundant) car measurements.
This information is also delivered to the weather model, and used to sharpen
the weather and traffic information and forecast. Furthermore, the local
road weather data and real traffic information is downloaded to the car
computer, which warns the driver if for example the road may be icy ahead.
At the beginning the weather model only has the weather data from the
meteorological measurements, and therefore local weather info is not
accurate everywhere. The real time local data from cars (with correction
based on reference data by base stations) is used as a training data to
build local weather information and forecast more accurate and localized.
Similarly the traffic management information will be updated and sharpened
by the central unit, based on the information received from traffic.
Additional applications could be for example improved large-scale weather
forecasts, the real-time accident warning, intelligent real-time route
planning and "WLAN CB radio" using VoIP
2006 - CoVES
Collaborative Virtual Engineering for SMEs
As successful SMEs extend their reach and scope in a globalising world, they face the challenge of maintaining
the agility, creativity and decision speed that is their key competitive strength: Key personnel like managers
or specialist engineers are increasingly on business trips and thus not available for idea generation, problem
solving or decision making. Paradoxically, this problem of remote collaboration is currently further exacerbated
by the growing use of more enterprise and productivity applications by SMEs such as CAx, PDM, ERP, or groupware
systems: These systems and their data is usually not available remotely and thus people "on the road" do not have
the basis for meaningful collaboration and decision making, introducing delays, quality problems and lost opportunities.
The objective of the CoVES project is to develop a flexible collaboration environment including access to rich data and
applications for nomadic professionals and partners targeted towards SMEs.
2006 - GridTrust
Trust and Security for Next Generation Grids
The GridTrust project is addressing the following objective of the 2005-2006 Work Programme - Call 5: "2.5.4
Advanced Grid Technologies, System and Services". GridTrust is focusing on "Grid Foundations: Architecture,
design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid".
The overall objective of the GridTrust project is to develop the technology to manage trust and security for the
Next Generation Grids (NGG). We propose to have a vertical approach tackling issues of trust, security and privacy
(TSP) from the requirement level down to the application, middleware and foundation levels. Our emphasis is on models
and tools to assist in reasoning about trust and security properties along the NGG architecture.
The main output of GridTrust is a framework consisting of: (1) a methodology and an interactive execution environment
that will help Grid service requestors and providers to express and reason about trust, security and privacy properties
for different kinds of virtual organisation (VO) topologies, taking into account aspects such as self-organisation,
self-management, self-adaptation and evolvability; (2) a reference Grid Security Architecture, including an autonomic
policy management for fine grained usage control of Grid resources; and (3) an open source reference implementation
of trust and security management systems, validated by scenarios in the business domain.
2006 - FOR ALL
Universal Service for Managing and Monitoring Cardiac and Psychological Health of European Cardiac Patients
FOR ALL project is aimed to make the market validation at trans-European level of an existing pilot system deployed in Italy called ICAROS (Integrated care vs. Conventional intervention in cArdiac insufficiency patients Randomized Open label Study), which monitors and manages heart chronic disease patients in their daily life, offering cardiologic and psychological assistance with an all-time and all-place on-line mobile trans-European service. The pilot system produces real-time reports to support clinical decision-making and aggregates data for use in setting best practice guidelines, managing clinical outcomes and staff training.
During the project, three main trial groups constituted by Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Italy), National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2nd Department of Radiology (Greece) and Consorcio Sanitario de Terrassa (Spain) will try the pilot service implemented in the FOR ALL market validation phase, those organisations are supported by three expert technological partners: DIANOEMA (Italy), ALTEC (Greece) and MOVIQUITY (Spain).
2006 - WORKPAD
An Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Software Infrastructure for Supporting Collaborative Work of Human Operators in Emergency/Disaster Scenarios
The WORKPAD project aims at building and developing an innovative software infrastructure (software, models, services, etc.) for supporting collaborative work of human operators in emergency/disaster scenarios. In such scenarios, different teams, belonging to different organizations, need to collaborate each other to reach a common goal; each team member is equipped with handheld devices (PDAs) and communication technologies, and should carry on specific tasks. In such a way we can consider the whole team as carrying on a process (macro-process), and the different teams (of the different organizations) collaborate through the "interleaving" of all the different processes. Each team is supported by some back-end centre, and the different centres need to cooperate at an inter-organizational level to reach an effective coordination among teams. Each team is referred to one specific organization, which is the only agent in charge of controlling its teams, and the teams thus form a virtual organization.
The project will investigate a 2-level framework for such scenarios: a back-end peer-to-peer community, providing advanced services requiring high computational power, data & knowledge & content integration, and a set of front-end peer-to-peer communities, that provide services to human workers, mainly by adaptively enacting processes on mobile ad-hoc networks.
2006 - S3MS
(Security of Software and Services for Mobile Systems)
The objective of S3MS is to create a framework and a technological solution for trusted
deployment and execution of communicating mobile applications in heterogeneous environments.
S3MS would enable the opening of the software market of nomadic devices (from smart phones to
PDA) to trusted third party applications beyond the sandbox model, without the burden of
roaming trust infrastructure but without compromising security and privacy requirements.
2006 - TRACKSS
(Technologies for Road Advanced Cooperative Knowledge Sharing Sensors)
The problem of safety in transport is especially acute in the case of road networks. To confront this the EC has proposed to reduce by 50% the number of road fatalities by 2010. Nowadays, safety relies most of the time in autonomous or stand-alone systems, which offer without any doubt room for improvement. In order to overcome the visible limitations of those systems, there is a need for another class of solution: Co-operative Transport Systems (CTS), whose intelligence is distributed/shared between road infrastructure and vehicles, compromising innovative approaches on transport safety and efficiency. Undoubtedly, today available (or under development) technologies enable the improvement of not only sensing systems, but also the way these systems share information. Smarter systems demand smarter sensors; cooperative systems require cooperative sensors. To that end, TRACKSS has one strategic goal:
Developing new systems for cooperative sensing and predicting flow, infrastructure and environmental conditions surrounding traffic, with a view to improve road transport operations safety and efficiency.
The project will improve and develop a number of breakthrough sensing technologies. At the same time, it will develop a new model for knowledge sharing between sensors. While doing so, the consortium will contribute to and seek compatibility with a pan-European e-Safety architecture. The project results will be validated through 3 pilots. The consortium developing this ambitious project counts with 15 partners, including global industrial players, innovative SME,s and world-class research institutions from Spain, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
2005 - FIDELITY
(Federated Identity Management based on Liberty)
The main focus of the project lies in the customer identity provision and management for telecommunication (fix and mobile) and Internet services. The overall objective is to provide a proof-of-concept of the viability and inter-operability of digital identification and authentication, managed in a federated network and between different Circles of Trust (CoT) compliant with the Liberty Alliance specifications. Four federations of service providers organized in CoTs will demonstrate that users can carry out transactions in a secured way around one or several identity providers. The CoT demonstrations will involve telecom and Internet service providers and e-service companies. The CoT infrastructure will be set up by telcos in four European countries with the support of industry partners that will provide Liberty compliant technology for the purpose of the project. The interoperability demonstration will cover interactions and exchanges of identification / authentication elements between different CoTs, forming a seamless environment for the end-user who will be able to control the use of his personal data. Security and privacy issues are considered key and will be thoroughly analysed with the help of a leading research institution in the information security domain.
2005 - NATURNET-REDIME
New Education and Decision Support Model for Active Behaviour in Sustainable Development Based on Innovative Web Services and Qualitative Reasoning
The general objective of NATURNET-REDIME project (NNR) is the improvement of knowledge and the provision of education concerning all aspects of Sustainable Development. The project will thus develop and demonstrate prototype technology and educational programmes towards implementing the European Union's Strategy for Sustainable Development (SSD). Extensive stakeholder understanding of the various factors and tools that affect sustainable development is one of the main goals NNR project. The content will focus on and integrate ecological, economic, social and technological factors and will prepare training facilities for Strategic Impact Assessment (SIA).
2005 - SAMANTHA
(Safe & Intelligent Fishing Products Traceability Management Throughout the Supply Chain)
SAMANTHA aims at providing a system which will enable the traceability of fishing products, based on the ability to identify them uniquely at any point within the supply chain, and also assuring that this identification gives a link to the product history.
In order to achieve the objectives, the consortium is comprised by four RTD performers which will provide wide expertise and know-how on RFID technologies, mobile solutions and applicable new working methods for fishing industry They will be working close to the user SMEs, assesing the needs of three IT providers for fishing industry enterprises (C-TRACE, GRUPOCIE AND PER SCITUM OÜ) and one small and medium sized fish-farm (AQUAPRI).
2004 - ePerSpace
Towards the era of personal services at home and everywhere.
The main objective of the ePerSpace project is to significantly increase the user acceptance of networked audiovisual systems and applications at home and virtually anywhere by developing innovative interoperable value-added networked services. From an industrial perspective, ePerSpace aims at creating a mass-market adoption of such advanced services thanks to this significantly increased user acceptance.
To address this challenge in audiovisual and home systems ePerSpace will concentrate on technical, social and business objectives:
- Social and business aspects: develop and enhance the business aspects of the ePerSpace services, analysing issues of major importance to the mass-market adoption, and hence the potential for economically sound business solutions.
- Technical objectives: develop an open, trusted and interoperable integration framework to show how various network enabled audiovisual systems and home platform products can seamlessly work together, thus solving existing interoperability problems in the exchange of information.
2004 - MOSAIC
Mobile Worker Support Environments.
The key objective of MOSAIC is to accelerate innovation in Mobile Worker Support Environments by shaping future research and innovation activities in Europe.
MOSAIC develops scenarios and roadmaps for mobile and location-aware working, builds strategies for deploying innovative mobile work technologies and applications in sector domains, and starts up initiatives for joint research and innovation.
The important challenge for our future economy and society is to establish human-centric and highly flexible work environments where technology is in the background and people are on the foreground. MOSAIC explores business and societal innovation, thus preparing Europe for deploying innovative mobile technology in a range of application domains to support mobile workers in distributed and location-sensitive settings.
2004 - WalkOnWeb
The Digital Guide for Hikers in Europe.
WalkOnWeb defines a new information publishing model for tourism and hiking. With this model, the hikers will have an easy access to digital information about routes for ramblers in any country. An interactive geographic map will allow the users to search and navigate through hiking routes. All the relevant details about the walk (navigation instructions, time, signals, hotels, etc..) are easily edited and sent to a printer or a mobile device. During the walk, the hiker will be able to use a GPS device to get the information related to his/her context: where to go, where to sleep, Points of Interest...
The main technical goals in research for the project are the development of a vector graphic interface using the most recent technologies as SVG for mobile devices and the definition of a geo-ontolgy using XML structures that will allow the integration of information from different sources in various formats: geographic maps, tourist information as hotels and restaurants, and route descriptions.
2004 - eVALUES
(E-library Voice AppLication Service for EUropean Blind, Elderly and Sight-impaired).
The aim of e-values is creating an online service that allows the blind, elderly and visually imparied people to search and download documents (news, books and other documents) with a mobile device, PDA or laptop using mainly GPRS accessing via internet and to be listened with the most recent technologies in TTS (TextToSpeech) in mobile devices.
The main advantages of the service are:
- It is a service accessible for blind, visually impaired and elderly people in th EU.
- The cost of the service is clearly cheaper than the existing ones (recording books, printed Books in Braille).
- It make these users less dependants of third parties.
- Improves accesibility and mobility.
- Improves the access for education, quality of life, access to job and culture for blind people and visually impaired.
2004 - SPEKs
Creating Value through Change: Anthropocentric approach bringing together Social Partners, Enterprises and Knowledge Providers (SPEKs)
SPEKs is a project funded by the European Commission under Article 6 of the European Social Fund Regulation, "Innovative approaches to the management of change". It consists of two main elements:
- The study and the development of innovative management systems and supportive IT tools for an overall approach on Change Management. The basic characteristic of these systems will be their anthropocentric character. The human factor in these approaches is considered as the key point of the expected success.
- The establishment of an observatory for management of change. Social partners in collaboration with technology and systems providers will create "one-stop shop" for businesses providing a blend of valuable information. Social partners will also create, a permanent informal social dialogue mechanism dealing with legal framework and rules about employment, sectoral and regional development.
2004 - EASY WIRELESS
ITEA Project (Allow seamless roaming between wireless networks while maintaining Quality of Service)
The project focuses on service continuity for mobile users. The aim is to ensure transparent connectivity as users are transitioning between different wireless network technologies. This includes addressing issues like: Roaming, Quality of Service (QoS) and Inter-working between heterogeneous networks. In addition, the project studies these aspects in case of both users and the network being mobile and unreliable. Scenarios contemplated are : Home, Office, Railway and Emergency.
2004 - HEARCOM
IST VI FP Integrated Project e-Inclusion (Hearing in the Communication Society)
The HEARCOM main strategic objective is to bring communication impaired persons to optimal functional level in the information and communication society. This applies specifically to hearing-impaired persons, elderly, children and second language users.
2004 - MAPPED
IST FP VI e-Inclusion SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH OR INNOVATION PROJECT (Mobilisation and Accessibility Planning for People with Disabilities)
MAPPED will provide users with the ability to plan excursions from any point to any other point, at any time, using public transport, their own vehicle, walking, or using a wheelchair, taking into consideration all their accessibility needs. In addition to this, MAPPED will provide the users with location-based services tailored to their accessibility needs.
To meet these goals MAPPED will incorporate:
- A multi-modal route planner that allows for disability specific routing information and reservation of accessibility services.
- Geographically indexed accessibility information.
- Disabled friendly mobile user interfaces.
2003 - BROADWAN
(Broadband services for everyone over fixed wireless access networks)
BROADWAN comprehends a total solution for universal hybrid broadband access networks for fixed and nomadic users. The objectives of the project are:
- Development of an economical realistic network architecture for the provision of true broadband services for all citizens in Europe.
- Positioning of European industry in the lead for next generation broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) solutions.
- Motivating advanced utilisation of broadband services at all levels of society by performing demonstrations and trials in rural areas.
