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_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY We develop a holistic concept for Smart Houses situated and intelligently managed within their broader environment. Intelligent networked ICT technology for collaborative technical-commercial aggregations enables Smart Houses to communicate, interact and negotiate with both customers and energy devices in the local energy grid so as to achieve maximum overall energy efficiency as a [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The current way of using the Internet differs greatly from the initial ideas that sprouted 40 years ago. Wireless, mobility, new ways to produce, consume and share content and social networks all have put new requirements on the future Internet. In the SAIL project, through Network of Information, we are looking at new [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Reservoir was a pioneering project which defined, developed and validated the fundamental building blocks of cloud computing infrastructures, including infrastructure elasticity, cloud federation and and flexible deployment of services across federated clouds. The European Commission has explicitly referred to Reservoir as its ”Flagship Project on Cloud Computing Research.” (see http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/newsletter-march2011_en.html). _____________________________________________________________________ KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The PARADISO2 FP7 project coordinated by Sigma Orionis and involving the Club of Rome has explored the foreseeable interactions between the Internet and societies in the next decades in order to identify new (more disruptive) innovation paths. This forward-looking analysis has benefitted from the support of a multidisciplinary high-level expert panel composed of [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Video traffic is a major challenge for the future Mobile networks and is not efficiently supported by the current Internet architecture, which was not designed taking its requirements into account. To address this issue, the EU project MEDIEVAL is developing an evolved mobile Internet architecture for efficient video transport that provides improved quality [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main objective of IRMOS was to enable real-time interaction and collaboration between people, using distributed multimedia applications running on top of a cloud infrastructure, where processing, storage and networking are delivered with guaranteed levels of service. This has been successfully achieved. The IRMOS approach and technical solutions constitute a new generation of [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY I2Web is a research project that aims to enable an accessible Future Internet for people with special needs (especially people with disabilities and older adults). From a socio-economic standpoint accessibility and usability issues are becoming critical, considering the demographic change worlwide. For instance, according to the UN 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects, [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Piloting IPv6 upgrade for eGovernment services in Europe. The pilot GEN6 will have 4 different national experiments (also called pilots), some of them replicated in a complementary way in different countries, considering different existing approaches with IPv4. _____________________________________________________________________ KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS * IPv6 upgrades of eGov services * IPv6 upgrades of infrastructures * IPv6 upgrades [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY After the two years of activity, it can be stated that the FIRST project has reached all its objectives. FIRST has been able to attract significant interests from stakeholders in the targeted Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) and the process of creation of Latin American Technology Platforms (LATPs) in [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Future Internet (FI) technology offers unique opportunities for transport and logistics (T&L) industry to address pressing challenges associated with international freight transport, including business efficiency, competitiveness and environmental sustainability. To address those challenges, FInest (an EU FP7 Future Internet PPP use case project) leverages FI technology to the benefit of all T&L partners, [...]