Tag Archives: services

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY “SIMPLI-CITY – The Road User Information System of the Future” will foster the usage of full-fledged road user information systems – helping drivers to make their journey safer, more comfortable, and more environmentally friendly. The project will develop a holistic framework which structures and bundles potential services that could deliver data from the […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The aim of service-centric computing is to provide a globally integrated environment in which a large number of loosely coupled services can cooperate and form a service ecosystem. Already today, this has led to a plethora of service platforms that are available for use by applications. This high degree of heterogeneity is necessary […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Home device and network security is an area with major research challenges and great potential for short concept-to-market cycles. Security in this space often builds on already established research trends. However, existing theoretical methods and best practices are then often applied in new innovative contexts and on new concepts leading to shortcomings in […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The proliferation of broadband services has created new demands on the broadband communication network. Broadband services need to be increasingly robust and to guarantee high levels of availability, confidentiality and privacy. This project seeks to develop robust communication solutions which can guarantee secure access to public services. To this end, the project team […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Over the few last years, network connectivity support in transportation systems has been one of the main research topics in computer networks engineering. Most of the research has been focused on routing mechanisms and on network mobility support, but there are still many other aspects to cover. In this context, the CONSEQUENCE project […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The 4TELL Research Group is focused on designing innovative solutions to enhance the ubiquity, convergence, optimisation and security of the communication networks of the future. The group’s mission is to contribute to the development of a real IP multimedia world of services through researching the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main objective of this project is to develop a platform to support new services in the area of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Specifically, the project team will design a transversal technological platform that supports the management, control and monitoring of heterogeneous networks of sensors and actuators. The end-results of the project will make […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY NFC City is an open innovation project which seeks to promote the development and use of services for information exchange, access, ticketing and payment through new applications of mobile and near field communication (NFC) technologies. The project will conduct studies of user, business, security and legal use cases – and develop solutions to […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Telecommunication has become a complex amalgam of many interdependent service and network providers and an integral part of contemporary society. A problem thus arises for critical infrastructure providers in accurately assessing the effectiveness of their continuity programmes. In this context, the Raster project seeks to develop a methodology for the risk assessment of […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Smart City project aims to create a dynamic ecosystem in which administrators, companies, citizens and research institutions jointly produce comprehensive, innovative and impactful services. The project seeks to assist the various interest groups to arrive at optimum, ICT-integrated solutions to the problems arising from city life through balancing collective and individual interests. […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The primary objective of the ASINE project is to formulate a methodological approach to the design and evolution of services in networked enterprises. An architecture-based approach is needed to cover multiple views on the design and evolution of a networked enterprise in a cohesive way. The proposed programme of work is at the […]

_____________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Developing a novel framework of autonomic intrusion detection over unlabeled HTTP log streams Designing a client-aware reputation […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY In recent years, systems that provide access to geographic information through a mobile phone or in a car-navigation unit have become common. Typically, these systems are a platform for Location-Based Services (LBS) such as location-aware search and point-to-point navigation. However, current geospatial search technologies are not flexible enough to deal with imprecise queries, […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY RealEstate 2.0 aims to confront challenges arising as a result of Greece’s moribund real estate market. Successful real estate businesses must make use of advanced, evidence-based decision making. This project will plug a gap in the e-services market through developing technology which will assist professional or individual retailers in assessing the positive or […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Under the THESEUS umbrella, some 60 research partners from academia and the business world have come together to develop new technologies and applications. Their goal is to facilitate access to information, to combine data to form new kinds of knowledge and to lay the groundwork for new services on the Internet. The technologies […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The goal of the OkoNet project is to find solutions to unpredictable problems and conflicts of interest between network and service providers. The project aims to find mechanisms which can resolve outstanding challenges iteratively through research conducted in two separate case studies. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Using primer orthogonal approaches such as “Economic Traffic Management” […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The China – Finland ICT Alliance is meant to become an open, scalable and sustainable platform for cooperation in ICT and digital services. The alliance aims both to create new business opportunities and to help in addressing the future challenges related to the environment, energy, traffic, well-being, health, and the creation of future […]

SUMMARY The virtualisation of services, the emergence of mobile internet access and the reduction of barriers to investment in service infrastructure and access terminals have all brought new opportunities to the ICT services sector. Finland is now in a position where it can define the direction of mobile services development in the future. The TIVIT […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The main objective of the MyOcean2 project will be to operate a rigorous, robust and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting system capable of delivering ocean physical state and ecosystem information to intermediate and downstream users in the areas of marine safety, marine resources, marine and coastal environment and climate, seasonal and weather forecasting. […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY This project seeks to adress challenges arising in the mobile web services domain where resource constrained mobile phones are used as both clients and providers (“Mobile Hosts”). The project team is developing several mobile host applications in healthcare systems, collaborative m-learning, social networks and multimedia services domains. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Providing an efficient and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Becoming a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) player requires mastering a wide technological domain and developing new business models and alliances. For smaller companies, to be able to compete in this disruptive SaaS environment, mastering synergies on different levels is a vital component of any successful business strategy. The OpenSaaS project’s goal […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Institute for Pervasive Computing seeks to conduct research into, and develop applications for, network embedded systems. Specifically, within this domain, the Institute aims to focus research in the areas of awareness, intelligence, software services, natural interfaces and Smart appliances. The ultimate aim is to crystallise this research into industrial and commercial applications. […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Audit 4 SOAs seeks to address one of the current major problems in Service-oriented Architectures (SOAs) development: testing support. In particular, the project is focused on a systematic testing and diagnosis approach of complex SOAs with the help of real world quality environments. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Decreasing time-to-market Enabling rapid prototyping of research ideas […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Austrian Electronic Network aims to foster the development of innovative broadband-based applications and services. It provides funding for individual applicants or consortia introducing information and communication solutions (services and applications) of public interest using broadband technology. The thematic fields range from innovative access technologies, e-Government, e-Health and e-Learning through to confidence and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The aim of this project is to turn the small, northern municipality of Skellefteå into a Smart City – an urban space interconnected through sensor networks which manage the collection, measurement and communication of data and the allocation of resources. The end result will be the provision of more efficient, comprehensive and energy-aware […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Future Internet (FI) technology offers unique opportunities for the transport and logistics 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 transport and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The current decoupling between applications and network layers leads to inefficient resource utilisation and over-provisioning, where the network connectivity is not tailored to the cloud dynamics. The GEYSERS project seeks to address this problem. The project seeks to construct a virtual infrastructure representation layer for optical network and IT resources. It also enables […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY NDIX an open platform which seeks to facilitate competition, innovation and the development of new digital services by offering unlimited and secure connectivity between content suppliers and end-users. As a result, NDIX aims to: Boost competition between suppliers of existing services (like Internet, telephony and hosting/backup) Facilitate the development of new services (for […]

_____________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Creating […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The mission of G-Lab_Ener-G is to develop a comprehensive approach to the future Internet architecture that includes energy efficiency as a fundamental principle. Key enablers for reaching this goal are the virtualization and consolidation of communicational and computational resources and the exploitation of energy-saving features of hardware. Specifically, the project addresses all successive […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY es.internet is a national technological platform which aims to develop a Spanish Future Internet (FI) ecosystem which will push Spain to the leading edge of FI research and development. The platform will foster research in a number of critical FI areas such as the Internet of the Network, the Internet of Users, the […]