Coordinating European Future Internet Research

autonomous systems

Adaptive and self-organising systems

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SUMMARY

In modern applications there is an increasingly need of coordination models for distributed systems that can face the unpredictability of behaviour of certain system subparts that cannot be handled at design-time because of legacy or deployment issues. Examples include sensor networks, pervasive computing systems, and all those distributed and open systems that involve different entities (services, devices, sensors, humans, and so on) that should opportunistically interoperate.The main requirements of these scenarios are robustness against failures, situatedness and adaptivity, all of which are to be achieved without human or supervised control, thus calling for innovative coordination models. Such scenarios are typically tackled by drawing inspiration from natural systems, where an intrinsic self-organisation exist by which the globally intended behaviour emerges out of local interaction of individuals.

The research team seeks to develop new innovative techniques and tools for their analysis, design and deployment, are to be conceived. They have to support the designer in “controlling the emergence of adaptive behaviours” and in making qualitative and quantitate predictions about how the system works and about possible design errors.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Identifying formal models for specifying self-organising systems and analysing their properties, such as stability and resilience
  • Developing simulation tools for performing “what-if” analysis
  • Developing a rich catalogue of self-organising design patterns and of a methodology supporting their composition to obtain new patterns useful in system engineering
  • Conceiving of new computational abstractions and languages, and of corresponding middleware technologies and tools, to mainstream the self-organisation paradigm
  • Implementing specific applications of pervasive computing systems, in contexts like smartcities or traffic control

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LINK:http://www.cse.unibo.it/en/research/areas/artificial-intelligence-autonomic-and-complex-systems/adaptive-and-self-organising-systems

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EDGE

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 10, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The goal of the EDGE project is to increase the integration of wind energy into the power grid. This goal will be achieved through improved management of dynamic elements (such as production units, storages and loads) connected to the power grid. To be able to respond efficiently to system changes, an overall control system and strategy must be developed. This control system and strategy must contain mechanisms which are robust, distributed, and self-organising. Furthermore, price dynamics will become an important control issue in the future power system. Through improved management of production and consumption, it will be possible to decrease the necessity for spinning reserves on standby, and to improve the stability of the grid as well as the utilisation of green energy.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing new, rigorous control methods for decentralized and self-organising load balancing that respects distribution and communication constraints and can adapt to market pricing as well as the varying QoS properties of communication networks.
  • Designing new optimisation-based strategies that utilise consumption and production flexibility for distributing supply and demand throughout the grid.
  • Developing generic models of production and (aggregated) consumption units for control.
  • Producing algorithms for information access and forwarding of actuator information across variable, heterogeneous communication networks.
  • Conducting a thorough economic analysis of the energy market which exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the current market structure, and leads to the identification of new market elements that utilise the flexibility of electricity-consumption and production.
  • Designing an open software toolbox for implementing practical realisations of the developed mechanisms for control and communication.
  • Enabling a higher penetration of wind energy in projected future energy grid scenarios.
  • Solving problems relation to the flexibility of consumption

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LINK: http://kom.aau.dk/project/edge/

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IDSECOM

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 5, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The IDSECOM project aims to create a safe platform for autonomous systems and services not currently provided by the existing conventional Internet of Things environments.

The project will involve the implementation of functionality layer identifiers at the network level and the integration of autonomous mobility, security and privacy mechanisms into a single network infrastructure. Platforms incorporating the project’s technology outputs will thus offer safer and easier access to the Internet of Things.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a platform which integrates new, autonomous facilities and services for the Internet of Things; eg: mobility, security and privacy mechanisms. This platform will be characterised by the implementation of functionality layer identifiers at the network level, thereby simplifying communication services in a heterogeneous Internet of Tings environment.
  • Designing new mechanisms and algorithms to ensure the security and privacy at the functionality layer.
  • Creating an Internet of Things test environment for performing tests on new facilities and services

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LINK: http://badania.ca.pw.edu.pl/index/projekt/4399

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Virtual Traffic Lights

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 4, 2014   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Traffic congestion is a significant problem in most major European cities, and has been estimated to cost as much as 1% of EU GDP. In its present form, the use of Traffic Light to control and regulate road traffic has proven to be very costly and inadequate scalable. Through leveraging the new vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication capability of modern cars, the VTL (Virtual Traffic Lights) project proposes to design and validate an alternative scheme of urban traffic control that envisions traffic lights as in-vehicle virtual signs. Such a scheme would enable ubiquity of signalised intersections, and would allow the automatic synchronisation of light phases, cycle durations and green splits through the coordination of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs).

The project team will aim to take advantage of the mandatory adoption by the automotive industry of the Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocol, and the ability of vehicles to communicate with each other, thus creating a distributed and highly reliable system of in-vehicle virtual traffic lights (VTL). Preliminary simulations of this self-organising traffic paradigm show a potential to increase the average flow rates substantially. In addition, traffic control and management will be rendered more ubiquitous and cost-effective.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating an automated, self-organising system which, through the use of vehicle-to-vehicle wireless communication will allow the replacement of physical traffic lights with more efficient and cost-effective virtual, in-vehicle traffic lights
  • Designing a VTL communication protocol and techniques for the distributed optimisation of traffic flow.
  • Testing the security and reliability of the VTL system.
  • Developing human-machine interface of the VTL system and usability evaluation
  • Producing a hardware design for retrofitting and field trial experiments.

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LINK: http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1730

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DANCER

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 9, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Long-term energy consumption reduction can be achieved more readily through sensible cooperation between end users and technological advancements. Monitoring energy use within buildings requires clear and reliable methods with outputs that are meaningful and helpful. End users play a pivotal role in shaping any such outputs as energy use revolves around their presence and comfort.

Consumers appreciate that innovative technology can increase their quality of life. However, a lasting bond between the two can only occur when users have confidence in the technology around them. This is more likely to happen when users and technologists work collectively in the system design process.

The DANCER project takes insights from users’ behaviour analysis, metering schemes, wireless sensors and embedded software to produce a system that both interactively and automatically manages users’ energy consumption within indoor environments. It will tailor users’ energy consumption to their habits aiming to reduce energy consumption. To achieve this DANCER adopts a multidisciplinary approach where knowledge from psychology, social and economic research, wireless communication and computer science unite to provide a viable solution that is beneficial to all the stakeholders on the energy supply-consumer chain.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Using wireless sensor networks to collect, collate and study end users’ energy consumption habits so as to inform the design of energy control systems and the user interfaces
  • Employing an iterative, participatory design approach to explore how end users feel about the project’s digital technologies and how they imagine these technologies can assist them in reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint
  • Testing increasingly mature versions of the DANCER system through a series of pilot studies with volunteers so that users’ queries about the sensors, networks and control policies being used to monitor and interactively manage their energy use can be further examined
  • Verifiying and validating the mature DANCER system in a control trial experiment where samples of households will be either provided with DANCER or allocated to appropriate control conditions

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LINK: http://dclgw.essex.ac.uk/index.php/projects/current/dancer

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Optimisation of Networks against Malicious Attacks

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SUMMARY

Contemporary society increasingly depends on complex systems such as the Internet, traffic, electrical power grids, social networks, ecological networks and so on. Due to the importance of these systems, the complex networks which are used to model them have been receiving much interest from multiple disciplines of the research community. Despite progress on several fronts, many crucial aspects of complex networks are not yet sufficiently understood. One of these aspects is the robustness of these systems to random failure and malicious attacks.

The goal of this project is to optimise model networks in a dynamical process, changing their topology in the search for robust structures which can withstand malicious attacks. The project’s applications will be of special interest to epidemiologists who want to break up disease transmission networks by targeted vaccinations and to police forces when disrupting criminal networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Utilising Monte-Carlo based optimization technique as well as novel, bioinspired optimization processes such as the evolutionary modification of populations of networks
  • Developing generally applicable methods for enhancing robustness based on the connection between the network’s topology and its resilience to malicious attacks
  • Using the tools for network optimisation to devolvop strategies for social, and in particular criminal, network disruption
  • Adopting fragmentation optimisation an inverse robustness optimisation simulation methods to develop efficient attack strategies and to learn how to immunise and protect benign networks
  • Applying the found strategies to disrupt real world criminal networks in collaboration with the federal police forces

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LINK: http://p3.snf.ch/project-126853

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Automatic Web Data Collection

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SUMMARY

Web-based data collection is becoming increasingly important in many social science fields. However, a scientific methodology for Web-based data collection has not yet been developed. The guideline components of such a methodology have been identified but, so far, they have only been expressed in natural language and are not yet semantically compliant with automated data extraction software.

In order to resolve this problem, the project team proposes to develop models and techniques to express Web-based data collection guidelines, rules and policies at different levels of abstraction. The finalised results will be realised in a suitable application.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing new techniques for automatic data extraction from the Web which rely on Semantic Web technologies and automatic reasoning to plan actions compliant with the guidelines
  • Implementing a demonstrative tool able to use the above mentioned technologies for Web-based data collection

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LINK: http://www.usi.ch/en/ricerca/research_dettaglio_progetto?id=678

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Adaptive Wireless Networks

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SUMMARY

Wireless networks face two important challenges in their practical deployment. First, they must operate in a highly dynamic, constantly changing environment. Second, they can in general only resort to lightweight protocols to optimise the use of the available resources required for their operation.

This project aims to design new resource allocation algorithms for wireless networks, taking specifically into account these two important challenges. In its application, the project will consider two important categories of networks: indoor home networks and outdoor sensor networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing distributed solutions for the formulation of allocation decisions while network traffic is in flow
  • Developing self-organizing algorithms to optimise the choice of channel frequency, spectrum and powers in order to maximize a given set of utility functions
  • Deploying multiple base stations with only one active subset at a given moment to minimise energy consumption and the risk of network failure in communication between data extractor and data-centre
  • Using stochastic tools to analyse the convergence properties of resource allocation algorithms, in particular where the network topology and channel conditions change

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LINK: http://p3.snf.ch/project-146423

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VISION

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The goal of the VISION project is to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy and facilitate the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications through developing a radically improved ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services.

SICS, the Swedish ICT research institute, will lead the work on computational storage in VISION. They will provide a solution for bringing computing to storage, enabling secure execution of computational tasks in close proximity to the relevant data, applicable both to user-driven computational tasks as well as autonomous data derivation and transformation.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Supporting the setup and deployment of data and storage services on demand, at competitive costs, across disparate administrative domains, providing Quality of Service and security guarantees
  • Radically extending earlier generations of service infrastructures
  • Developing a cloud-based infrastructure built on open standards and new technologies, capable of the optimised delivery of converged data-intensive services
  • Using objects with metadata to support effective access and management, enabling unprecedented scalability and simplification of storage services
  • Enabling comprehensive data migration and interoperability across remote locations, overcoming current limitations
  • Introducing a technology for specifying and executing computations close to storage, reducing overheads
  • Facilitating access to data by content and its relationships, relieving applications and users from the need to be aware of the underlying storage implementation

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LINK: https://www.sics.se/projects/vision-virtualized-storage-services-foundation-for-the-future-internet

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GeNeura

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SUMMARY

Nature is replete with highly intricate and dynamic systems and processes which have been refined over millions of years of evolutionary fin-tuning. Biomimicry is the technique of emulating natural processes and structures to find solutions to human problems.

The GeNeura research group seeks to bring biomimicry to the domain of ICT, specifically the fields of network design. The group’s research and software development are mainly focused on bioinspired algorithms based on complex neural networks, ant colony and evolutionary algorithms; with free/libre software as a guide principle.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Exploring techniques for the self-evolution of non-hierarchical networks such as cloud and P2P systems
  • Producing a low-cost and autonomous prediction and information system for real-time traffic management using distributed devices
  • Designing a self-evolving model for the management of eHealth systems

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LINK: http://geneura.wordpress.com/

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LifeSaver

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The LifeSaver project aims to support manufacturing companies in optimising the energy performance of their operations. The project team will develop a set of ICT building blocks that combine context awareness, ambient intelligence monitoring and standard energy consumption data measurement. Validation and verification will be carried out through testing use cases in collaboration with industry partners

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SOLUTIONS

  • Enriching energy consumption data with information about the context in which the use actually occurred
  • Providing comprehensive information about the energy consumption to be processed in enterprise management systems
  • Designing a knowledge-based decision support system for optimisation of energy performance of operations
  • Furnishing appropriate online and predicted cumulative data on CO2 emissions, as input for the decision support services to enable emission trading across industries and among companies
  • Complementing currently measured energy consumption data with diverse information from ambient intelligent systems and process-related measurements
  • Enabling LifeSaver s building blocks to access and process more complete information to target energy efficiency optimisation
  • Evaluating and refining the end-product through testing three demonstrators of the platform’s application in real industrial environments

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LINK: http://www.lifesaver-fp7.eu/

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WiN – Wireless Networks

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The Wireless Networks group at INESC TEC focuses on R&D in the area of wireless communications networks.

The group’s mission is to further the development of self-manageable, scalable, secure, and context-aware wireless networks. The groups focuses its research in several important areas such as: network self-configuration, cross-layer optimisation, congestion control, radio resource management, mobility management, network management and network security

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SOLUTIONS

  • Characterising the impact of network topology on the performance of single-radio wireless mesh networks
  • Designing an ns-3 architecture for simulating joint radio resource management strategies in interconnected WLAN and UMTS networks
  • Investigating the performance and limits of KNN-based positioning methods for GSM networks over leaky feeder in underground tunnels
  • Developing methods for the transparent and scalable terminal mobility for vehicular networks
  • Producing an efficient mechanism for establishing IP connectivity in Next Generation Networks

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LINK: http://win.inescporto.pt/FrontPage

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AMazING

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SUMMARY

AMazING (Advanced Mobile wIreless Network playGround) is an outdoor test system which seeks to achieve market differentiation through providing increased direct control for the user and high reproducibility of tests conditions and results, even for mobile events.

The project provides a free access wireless testbed, composed by 24 fixed nodes located at the rooftop of Instituto de Telecomunicações – Aveiro. The project team has constructed a testbed management system built on top of a customized version of OMF that automates tedious but necessary tasks. The aim is to push Portuguese ICT research and development to the leading edge through the provision of facilities which allow wireless studies to be conducted under more realistic, but still controllable conditions.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing free access, increased levels of control and high reproducibility of results for users

  • Automating network configuration, software deployment, and experiment execution processes

  • Aggregating Open Media Framework sub components and functionality under a common, web oriented, multi-user management application and streamlines testbed management by hiding most of the complexity associated to running experiment

  • Providing the user with an experiment-oriented interface for interacting with the testbed through a graphical interface, while at the same time allowing administrators to manage users and system operations

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LINK: http://amazing.atnog.av.it.pt/

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ASSET

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SUMMARY

Emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are key in the development of eHealth programmes. IoT technologies however, are vulnerable to breaches of privacy, virtual and physical attacks, and their energy-use, communications, and computation capabilities are constrained by complex security schemes. Most current security schemes render IoT infrastructure inflexible, and vulnerable to damages resulting from powerful threats.

The ASSET (Adaptive Security for Smart Internet of Things in eHealth) project aims to build risk-based adaptive security methods and mechanisms that increase which will adapt to the dynamic, changing conditions of IoT. The results enhance future e-Health solutions in Norwegian hospitals and health services

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SOLUTIONS

  • Duilding risk-based, dynamically adaptive security methods and mechanisms for the Internet of Things
  • Producing a case study which will lead to the design of adaptive strategies for the dynamic interplay between security and data transmissions in mobile patient monitoring systems
  • Designing systems adaptable to changing threat, usability, diversity and homogeneity conditions of the IoT, taking into account varios Quality of Service metrics
  • Verifying the necessary security and trust levels for emerging IoT e-Health applications

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LINK: http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Prosjekt&cid=1253972901191&pagename=verdikt/Hovedsidemal&p=1226993814962

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SOWICI

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SUMMARY

Energy-use in buildings can be minimised by using modern technology with situation-aware devices that are able to communicate. The SOWICI project aims to develop a novel, energy-efficient, in-building optical/wireless communication network. This network will feature intelligent routing and transmission functionalities for wireless services between sensors and actuators and fixed and mobile wireless broadband communication devices. The network will enable building automation and communication for saving energy

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SOLUTIONS

  • Producing an energy-efficient, in-building, optical/wireless communication network

  • Integrating the communication networks for building automation with the communication networks used for data exchange and multimedia entertainment

  • Developing and integrated communication network which is reliable, flexible, scalable and which consumes minimal power

  • Ensuring that wireless communication between system components should work reliably with a minimum of electro-magnetic emission for energy-efficiency and to eliminate potential health hazards due to exposure to EM radiation

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/research/projects/national/smart_energy_systems/sowici.doc/

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GO GREEN

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SUMMARY

The Go-Green project seeks to develop an intelligent energy-aware system. The system will be installed in Smart buildings and adapt to the energy needs of the building’s population. This system can grant competitive advantages to governments and organizations in all fronts through possessing green capabilities and reducing energy liabilities.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing an intelligent energy-aware system which learns from people’s behavior, understands their needs and provides reliable feedback in terms of best practices for energy use and distribution

  • Designing a method to intelligently harness energy from a variety of sources

  • Providing a competitive advantage for green-technology users

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/research/projects/national/iop/iop-gencom/go-green.doc/

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Reliable Mobility Systems

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SUMMARY

This project aims to improve Holland’s traffic, transport and logistical systems. To this end, the project teams will develop a robust Smart infrastructure network which can mitigate the effects of local disruptions and enable synergies between road traffic and high-tech public transport. This will involve the design and application of an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which will allow users to make informed transport medium and route choices based on real-time data. The team will also develop sustainable logistics solutions incorporating reliability, efficiency and environmental-friendliness.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a Smart travel infrastructure for Holland which will maximise traffic flow and transport efficiency
  • Designing an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) based on wireless sensor networks enabling commuters to make informed transport decisions
  • Producing environmentally aware transport solutions

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LINK: http://www.tno.nl/content.cfm?context=thema&content=innovatiegebied&laag1=894&laag2=913&item_id=913

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MARLON

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SUMMARY

Logbooks are important repositories of information for mariners. However, compiling logs can be a tedious and logistically cumbersome task for busy mariners.

The MARLON project aims to develop an automated system for logbook compiling on marine vessels. The project will design an electronic solution whereby a significant portion of the required data is logged automatically, in virtual communication with the vessel’s state. The logkeeping application will be developed for the iPad, but MARLON’s results will also be transferable to other platforms.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing an automated logkeeping system where the logbook is automatically updated through wireless communication with a sensor network
  • Integrating sensor instruments to data logging modules
  • Launching an online community website to support the future of digital logkeeping

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LINK: http://www.mcst.gov.mt/national-funding/ri-programme/funded-ri-projects/ri-2011-018-marine-logging-notebook-marlon

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CoPAInS

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SUMMARY

The increasing pervasiveness of Internet of Things technology means that our environments are increasingly becoming Ambient Intelligence Systems – “intelligent spaces” in which Smart objects such as environmental sensors are able to adapt to changes in context and to users’ social needs.

The CoPAInS project seeks to solve two problems arising from the proliferation of Ambient Intelligence Systems: the need to preserve users’ privacy and the desirability of cultivating a trusting or “convivial” relationship between humans and devices.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Utilising Knowledge Representation & Reasoning techniques to develop a formal framework for context representation, privacy and conviviality
  • Validating and verifying the privacy and conviviality properties of Ambient Intelligence systems using model-checking techniques
  • Simulating and testing use cases from the field of Ambient Assisted Living
  • Producing guidelines to assist system designers in the development of privacyaware and convivial “assistive systems”.

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LINK: http://www.fnr.lu/en/Research-Programmes/Research-Programmes/Projects/Convivialty-and-Privacy-in-Ambient-Intelligence-Systems-CoPAInS

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The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia

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SUMMARY

The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS UL) was established in 1959.
In terms of ICT, the institute conducts research into system modelling and software technologies, artificial intelligence and real-time systems.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing robust & safe, mobile, co-operative, autonomous systems
  • Designing new information technologies based on ontologies and model transformations
  • Creating a large-radius wireless sensors network for precise agricultural applications

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LINK: http://www.lumii.lv/

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GECKO

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SUMMARY

The GECKO project aims to develop an adaptive control infrastructure for the management of production facilities based on Internet of Things technology. The objective is to create a productive environment consisting of a network of autonomous, hierarchically collaborating modules implanted in mechatronic equipment. The infrastructure will be tested in the field with the collaboration of industry partners.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a modular production environment of interoperable Smart components
  • Producing virtual representations of a shopfloor capable of illustrating production dynamics
  • Allowing the technology to automatically adapt over time and implement resource production and energy efficiency optimization strategies

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LINK: http://www.ceng.ieiit.cnr.it/projects/gecko/index.php

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Security for Mobile Devices

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SUMMARY

Security for Mobile Devices is a research group of the CNR’s Institute for Informatics and Telematics. The group seeks to address problems relating to the privacy protection and security systems of smart, mobile devices.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a novel framework of autonomic intrusion detection over unlabeled HTTP log streams
  • Designing a client-aware reputation system for e-services
  • Enhancing Java ME security support with resource usage monitoring

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LINK: http://www.iit.cnr.it/en/research_activities/security-mobile-devices

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SmartCity Haluza

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SUMMARY

SmartCity Haluza is a comprehensive programme whose aim is to create progressive, sustainable society based on leading edge Internet of Things technologies.

Haluza’s municipal services such as health, education, water and energy-supply will be integrated into self-managing, interconnected networks capable of automatically reallocating resources to suit demand.Residents will live in smart house equipped with the most advanced technology there is, such as electronic locks, built-in video-call infrastructure, a smart electricity system, VOD TV and more.

The ultimate aim is to create an egalitarian society that respects every race, religion, sex or nationality, and where everyone’s basic needs or provided for by leading-edge smart technology.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing a smart urban infrastructure to provide on-demand municipal services

  • Facilitating the development of Haluza as an independent economic unit, managed by its residents with the use of the latest smart technology

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LINK: http://www.haluzasmartcity.org/smartcityen-welcome-welcome_to_haluza_%E2%80%93_israels_first_smart_city

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Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre

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SUMMARY

The Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre (TEC) Centre works extensively with companies who have requirements for ICT innovation, particularly in embedded systems. The centre has completed prototyping and innovation projects in distributed sensing, hardware systems, automated resource monitoring, indoor and outdoor real-time tracking, multimedia systems, websites and application software.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a one-stop-shop facility for industry R&D in the Southern region
  • Building industry-led programmes to sustain growth in the Irish embedded systems industry
  • Creating new start-ups with international potential

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LINK: http://nimbus.cit.ie/tec/

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LAMP

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SUMMARY

The LAMP project aims to meet the need for the autonomic management of power distribution through applying reinforcement learning techniques to the coordination of agent-managed micro-grids.

In particular, LAMP will apply autonomic management techniques for inter-agent collaboration at multiple levels of the power distribution hierarchy. A specific research focus of LAMP is the understanding of the limits of self-organising and learning based-techniques in an application domain subject to widely varying supply and demand and in which guaranteed quality-of-service agreements must still be maintained.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Investigating the design of algorithms to support effective autonomic/self management of community-based micro grids capable of offering specific quality-of-service guarantees
  • Using Distributed W-Learning (DWL) technology as the basis of autonomic management
  • Designing extensions or adaptations to DWL to address issues arising from the study of DWL in community-based micro grids

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LINK:http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/node/788

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Future Cities

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SUMMARY

To improve quality of life and ensure sustainability, future smart cities will increasingly rely on information and communications technology to optimise the performance of transportation, security, business, telecommunications, water-management, and energy-supply systems. DSG’s FutureCities research project is investigating the design of the middleware needed to support such cities.

The FuturCities project is focused on the exploitation of data from very diverse sensors, including those contributed by individuals, to enable (semi) automatic management of city-scale services. In particular, the project team is investigating the design of new programming models, middleware architectures, communication infrastructures, and advanced analytics to allow sensor data to be gathered, transported, and interpreted effectively to optimise urban resource usage and service delivery, and thereby improve the quality of life and sustainability of cities.

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SOLUTIONS

Current research is focused in four areas:

  • Smart urban-scale sensing addresses middleware and communications architectures to allow high volumes of data from both public and user-contributed sensors to be gathered and exploited by smart cities. This area merges wireless sensor networks, vehicular sensor networks, and participatory sensing.
  • Smart infrastructure addresses the management of urban-scale critical infrastructure, with a particular interest in autonomic management techniques modelled as self-organising multi-agent systems that exploit model-free learning algorithms to associate meaning and actions with available sensor data.
  • Smart transportation focuses on improving the reliability and safety of road transportation, in particular via advanced urban traffic control and highway management systems.
  • Smart Services addresses middleware for adaptable software services, providing run-time statistical timing analysis, timely reconfiguration, and a software framework for cross-layer adaptation of multi-layer systems

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LINK: http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/FutureCities

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CTVR

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

CTVR is Ireland’s national telecommunications research centre. It is headquartered in Trinity College Dublin and works in partnership with six academic institutions in Ireland (NUIM, UL, UCC, Tyndall, DIT and DCU) and collaborates with over 60 companies. The centre engages in leading-edge research, postgraduate education, technology transfer, commercialisation and outreach and is involved in European wide projects as well as international collaborations.

The centre’s research focus is on developing dynamic wireless and optical networks which can react and adapt to changing situations and functional demands. Research is conducted both at the architectural and infrastructure level as well as on the underlying technologies that will enable the networks of the future.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing evolvable networks
  • Building flexibility and adaptability into the network using such technologies as tunable and adaptive photonics devices and reconfigurable radios
  • Allowing networks to be self-planning and self-organising and able to dynamically reallocate resources to services and systems
  • Developing sustainable networks with a persistent awareness of resource constraints such as manpower, energy, space, bandwidth, processing capabilities, storage, etc.
  • Ensuring that networks can support many different models of ownership

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LINK: http://ctvr.ie/

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ILIas

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Due to the increasing frequencies of natural disasters as well as potential terrorist attacks, the protection of critical infrastructures from natural and man-made catastrophic events has become a central challenge. However, as the scale complexity and mutual interdependence these critical infrastructures grows, finding solutions becomes more and more challenging. Furthermore, new technology paradigms such as All-IP networks and Smart Grid functionality blur the classical domain boundaries and facilitate novel attack types.

The ILIas project will develop intelligent solutions for protecting critical infrastructures that provide electricity and telecommunication services to the general public. These solutions will be scalable and reconcile the need for fast automated reaction with manual supervision for highly critical decisions.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Protecting critical societal infrastructures through leading edge ICT
  • Developing a flexible peer-to-peer-based distributed management system to provide a robust and fault tolerant foundation for the network analysis and administration functionalities
  • Ensuring data availability and system control in case of different network failures until overall control can be re-established
  • Designing models for simulating attack scenarios and evaluating the efficiency of protection mechanisms in large-scale networks

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LINK: http://www.gt-arc.com/projects/ilias/

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Future Ubiquitous Networks

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Future Ubiquitous Networks (FUN) aims to develop self-organisation solutions for future wireless sensor, actuator and RFID networks. These solutions will allow those kinds of networks to self-deploy, to discover, to communicate, to know when to sleep, when to transmit, etc. FUN seeks to validate their solutions heuristically through a process of experimentation and iteration.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a heterogeneous network architecture:
    • Making wireless sensors, actuators and RFID networks work together and interact in a transparent and standard compliant way.
  • Designing a realistic network infrastructure through a heuristic process:
    • Validating every solution through experimentation and learn from these latter to enhance them.

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LINK: https://team.inria.fr/fun//

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Ctrl-Green: The Autonomous Managment of Green Data Centres

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Ctrl-Green aims to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of autonomous management systems. Autonomous systems are self-managing infrastructures which automatically observe and react to local events.
The project aims to integrate new green metrics and control capabilities into autonomous systems in order to foster a new generation of green data centres.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Implementing energy managment and multiple control loops at different hardware and software levels
  • Utilising new metrics developed by greeen data centres designed to improve efficiency in terms of Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), Carbon Usage Efficiency (CUE), Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE)
  • Including policies for scalability and availability in green autonomous systems
  • Managing the tradeoffs between performance, availability and energy while incorporating the new metrics and capabilities of green data centers.

 

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LINK: http://www.en.ctrlgreen.org/

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Witty City

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The aim of the Witty City programme is to provide people with better living and working environments and to create opportunities for enterprise to bring new products and services on the market. City and town administrations will play a key role in the project as they are central players in such areas as planning, procurement and the choice of energy sources.

There will be between three and six smart city pilot projects in different parts of Finland, which will allow programme partners to gain market experience and to test new solutions. The pilot projects will involve such areas as local energy, use of open data in traffic and the reduction of the carbon footprint.

The development work will take place in real-life environments and will be a joint effort between users, companies and the public sector. The focus will be on embedding ICT-based services in everyday situations, and on ensuring that the services are easy to use.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Enhancing the functionality of various aspects of quotidian urban life, such as mobility and energy use, through the embedding of ICT solutions and services
  • Aiding city and town administrations to develop their ICT knowledge pool and to gain an awareness of how they can integrate their services and functioning with the latest ICT technology
  • Providing the resources for Finnish enterprise to be at the leading edge in the emerging Smart City market

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LINK: http://www.tekes.fi/en/programmes-and-services/tekes-programmes/witty-city/

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T-City Szolnok

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 2, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

T-City is a long-term innovation and development collaboration between Magyar Telekom NyRt and the city of Szolnok. Through the initiative, the citizens, companies and institutes of Szolnok can test the new services and products of Magyar Telekom NyRt, and they can discover the advantages of the internet based information society.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a Digital City which will provide new solutions for citizens, employees, students, city services.
  • Testing new ICT services and products under real circumstances together with the citizens and small/medium enterprises.
  • Narrowing the Digital Divide

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LINK: www.t-city.hu

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