SUMMARY

This project seeks to advance the science of forensics through developing a cloud based platform to support knowledge dissemination and collaboration amongst the scientific community.

The project team will utilise leading edge cloud technology to develop new services for digital forensics, data sharing, knowledge exchange & training. Research is being carried out by a consortium of a academic and industrial partners.

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SOLUTIONS

• Delivering a cloud based platform where clients to support the dissemination of the latest techniques and foster collaboration between practitioners
• Creating a new value chain from research to the international forensics community

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LINK: http://www.forensic-connect.co.uk/default.php

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SUMMARY

The CRAAX lab actively participate in research into the area of advanced network architectures, nationally and internationally, in close collaboration with industry partners.

CRAAX’s aim is to conduct not only pure academic research which is often decoupled from industrial realities, but also to design and develop solutions with the potential of being adopted and deployed in real scenarios. The primary areas of research are: multi-domain/layer hybrid IP/Optical networks; routing security and management; platform design and development; and performance evaluation.

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SOLUTIONS

• Producing novel multi-domain/multi-layer hybrid IP/optical network architectures and protocols.
• Researching Network management in heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-vendor IP/optical network architectures.
• Investigating the Security aspects of the Internet routing system including Loc/ID Separation protocols.
• Managing security in context of routing.
• Constructing open and programmable environments for experimenting with new applications on top of network elements.
• Monitoring and designing distributed measurement platforms.
• Developing robust and intelligent control techniques for critical infrastructures.

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LINK: http://www.craax.upc.edu/index.html

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SUMMARY

This project aims to tackle issues arising from the exponential growth of the urban population. This global trend is leading to the deterioration of urban facilities quality of life, posing an unparalleled set of challenges.

The Future Cities Project is an FP7 funded project which aims at unlocking the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, as well as strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners.

The project’s primary goal is to turn the city of Porto into an urban-scale living lab, where researchers, companies and start-ups can develop and test technologies, products and services, exploring such subjects as sustainable mobility, urban-scale sensing, safety and privacy, as well as quality of life for citizens and their families.
Work will be conducted across a multiplicity of disciplines, engaging not only engineers and computer scientists, but also psychologists, urban studies specialists, and social scientists. The University of Porto will conduct the research through various groups from the Engineering (FEUP), Psychology (FPCEUP) and Sciences (FCUP) faculties, amongst others.

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SOLUTIONS

• Aggregating a critical mass in key areas of expertise for future cities that also signals a closer and more profitable connection among research groups and Portuguese companies
• Creating new knowledge in key areas of future city technologies, operations and management
• Recruiting and training highly qualified individuals for the industry and academia with relevant scientific expertise, as well as international experience and proven leadership qualities
• Adopting and consolidating the best practice of top research and innovation centres in Europe at the University of Porto
• Implementing mechanisms and routine practices for brainstorming, exchanging ideas, attaining technical depth, publishing in top scientific periodicals, protecting of intellectual property and developing security products with the industry
• Increasing the number and quality of scientific publications, which should be targeted towards technical depth with strong impact in the real world
• Fostering technology transfer of future city solutions to the local and international industry and end users, leading to significant increases of Portugal’s comparative advantages and exports
  
• Promoting the stronger participation of the Future Cities’ researchers and collaborating companies in the activities of the European Research Area

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LINK: http://futurecities.up.pt/site/

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SUMMARY

The SEASTAR project seeks to address the increasing need for underwater communication systems with higher data rates over considerably longer distances. This project aims to gather experts from traditionally disjoint communities to investigate, define, and develop core technologies for underwater monitoring platforms and to build the first working demonstrator.

The research is expected to have utility in an abundance of industrial, environmental monitoring, oil/gas exploitation, and safety and security applications and consortium partners have concrete plans to use and disseminate obtained results and see direct benefit from applying the results

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SOLUTIONS

• Advancing wireless sensor network technology driven by the particular needs of underwater monitoring

• Carrying out case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness and utility of our architecture

• Furthering the development of low-power acoustic vector sensors for underwater deployment

• Developing power efficient transducer drivers for underwater wireless communication

• designing an architecture sensor network, focusing on collaborative beam-forming and hybrid underwater networking protocols

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/research/projects/national/stw/seastar.doc/

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SUMMARY

The goal of the COMMIT programme is to find solutions to societal problems and to exploit socio-economic opportunities through the use of ICT technology. The programme also aims to strengthen the Dutch ICT innovation ecosystem by establishing best-practices in public-private collaboration. COMMIT will pursue three specific objectives: producing multi-disciplinary research projects whose impact on society is directed according to given priority themes; providing solutions through conducting leading-edge, needs-oriented fundamental; consolidating and disseminating acquired knowledge.

The COMMIT programme will fund 26 high-quality, publicly and privately funded research projects in six societal themes: well-being, information services, sciences, applied sciences, transport, and public safety. These themes have been selected not only because of their priority status for Dutch society, but also because of their potential for realising major ICT innovations.

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SOLUTIONS

• Developing information retrieval methods for information services

• Promoting interaction for universal access

• Designing wireless sensor networks to safeguard public safety

• Implementing e-infrastructure virtualisation for e-science applications

• Constructing composable embedded systems for healthcare

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

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